THE RAVENMASTERS
Kernel
The story of Kernel begins in 2005. What started as a simple recording session slowly became something else entirely: a project revisited, reshaped, dismantled, and rebuilt again and again. Kernel stands as the last album the RavenMasters recorded together.
The central theme of Kernel emerges clearly across both its artwork and its music: a dialogue between soul and technology, between human imperfection and mechanical precision. Long before artificial intelligence became part of everyday discourse, the RavenMasters were already exploring a similar tension—how organic expression and digital processes can coexist, collide, and ultimately shape one another.
There were setbacks—songs replaced, lyrics rewritten, sounds reimagined. An album that changed form again and again. At times, it seemed the record might never see the light of day.
And yet—here it is.
Re-released by Music from Alpha in August 2025
CATALOG NUMBER: MFA2 RM-009R
Originally released on March 18, 2015
1 – Second best thinking
2 – A little bit lowly
3 – Glass and paper
4 – Sinking
5 – It’s always six o’clock
6 – A pale blue dot
7 – The cat from Alpha Centauri
8 – Crayon
9 – Chameleon
10 – Never too late (to get insane)
11 – The world is waiting
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All songs written by Massari/Zenari; strings arranged by Gio.
Recorded between October 2005 and January 2015 at Strawberry Fields; drums on “Glass and paper” and “It’s always six o’clock” recorded at Groove Studio.
Produced by Gio.
Mixed and mastered by Gio at Strawberry Fields.
Artwork by Martina Ceschi and Gio.
GIO: vocals, guitars, bass, juno 106, sampler, percussions, skale tracker, loops, sound manipulation
MIRKO: hammond, farfisa, rhodes, clavinet, organetta, moog, juno 106, nord lead 2x, chamberlin, sampler,orchestron, skale tracker
SEBA: drums, percussions
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ERICA MASON: violin, viola
KUMIKO HOSOTANI: cello
GUIDO CATTABIANCHI: drums on “Second best thinking” and “Crayon”
FRANCESCO MORELLO: drums on “It’s always six o’clock”
