Second Sight • Vinyl

CLOCK DVA — SECOND SIGHT Double LP on Vinyl -ARMEUV008 / ARMEUV008SE

Second Sight marks the return of Clock DVA’s audio-visual vision in its most physical form: two slabs of black vinyl, ten works of composition and de-composition, an object built to be held as much as heard. Conceived by Adi Newton and TeZ (Maurizio Martinucci), the album moves between song and pure signal — voice, machine, and the space in between.

Published by Rizosfera APS / Armcomm Europe in two editions. This edition is intended for the European continent, including the UK. In America, Asia, and Oceania, both editions will be available starting September 23, 2026, exclusively through Rizosfera America‘s online shop (link to https://www.coalescesion.com/rizosfera/ ). The standard gatefold vinyl edition will also reach physical record stores worldwide (excluding Europe and the UK) through AMS, appointed by Rizosfera America as exclusive retail distributor.

Technical specifications

• Format: Double LP (2 × 12″), black vinyl, 140g
• Tracks: 10 — total running time 63’02”
• Cut: Lacquer cut & galvanic development
• Mastering: Giuseppe Ielasi, 206
• Publishing: Mute Song
• Music: Adi Newton & TeZ (Maurizio Martinucci)

Editions

• ARMEUV008 — Gatefold Edition (200 copies): gatefold sleeve, rough matte (uncoated, tactile) finish, printed inner sleeves.
• ARMEUV008SE — Special Edition (100 copies): a collector’s edition featuring two 4-page booklets printed on fine twill paper, with separate artwork for each vinyl disc (Disc 1 and Disc 2). Hand-numbered and signed by Adi Newton.

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Reviews

Clock DVA: the Seer and the Clock
by Aldo Chimenti (Rockerilla, October 2025)

“Every move on Adi Newton‘s field has its own ethico-aesthetic reason for being, projected forward, a calling to explore enduring paradigms and future languages. The latest act under the Clock DVA name is a sort of ‘lost album’, created with the intent to fill a chronological/creative void in the third artistic phase begun in the 2010s, a period that marked the project’s rebirth after a long period of latency and the arrival of the polyhedric Maurizio TeZ Martinucci.

In the pages of Adi Newton: Second Sight, the English-language edition of Clock DVA/TAGC – Sogni sepolti (2022), acclaimed music critic Paolo Bertoni provides a meticulous analysis of Adi Newton’s works, including collateral endeavors like The Anti Group/ TAGC, Psychophysicist, etc., and a brief chapter on the legendary, meteor-like band The Future, the nucleus from whose cells Clock DVA and The Human League were born. They were pioneers of the Sheffield electronic scene which, besides our subjects, included seminal, indispensable entities like Cabaret Voltaire and Vice Versa. A philological vade mecum on the musical activities and respective phases of a revolutionary force called Clock DVA, in homage to that  “A Clockwork Orange”  of Kubrickian memory… A man of knowledge and thought, the charismatic Adi has rightfully distinguished himself on the frontlines of a wide-spectrum avant-garde research, where the poly-dimensional character of the Newtonian genius feeds on cultivated content, among literary and cinematic references, esoteric registers and futuristic glimpses, science and science fiction, philosophy and cosmology, technology and psychoacoustics…

Throughout their career, Clock DVA have developed a virtuous theorem of music and visual arts increasingly marked by a flawless, millimetric perfectionism, compositional strategies that incite one to elevate the threshold of synesthetic-sensory perception. Bertoni’s agile volume constitutes an excellent guide for navigating the complex itineraries of this extraordinary musical galaxy. To crown it, the valuable interviews given by Adi and TeZ.

Tasked with “capturing the sonic essence of the third phase,” the musical section of Second Sight features 11 titles in total, among rarities, unreleased tracks, and alternative versions consistent with the compendium’s spirit—a necessary act that our indomitable researchers of parallel worlds place in a pre-Noesis  spatiotemporal segment, the 2023 masterpiece.

Studded with transfigured vocal themes, the mathematical, yet epic-solemn script of Endless opens the dance of a cinematic party in the cosmos’s higher spheres. Glimpses of electrodynamic irradiations that inoculate charges of physical-cerebral energy into the algebraic codes of The Konstructor, Re_Rayonist, Kabaret 13_Zvukopis_RMX  and  Re_Arketechton, where pulsating lines of computerized figures and spurts of metronomic beats unleash incomparable harmonic-vibrational events, further fueled by ellipses of mercurial frequencies and melodic passages to be read between the lines.

In the prismatic Neoteric, Adi’s cavernous voice returns to dispense narrative enigmas that provide a lyrical counterpoint to the surgical pulses of the rhythmic weave and the glacial, orbiting waves floating in the background. If the immersive  Sentinel and Immission set in motion flows of alien drones and holograms of refracted, forthcoming crystals, the hypnotic Re_Amna teems with gravitational sequences made of astral stones and atoms of crystal, while the ‘noetic’ The Simulacra and Drive The Exotic Non-Essentials (exclusive titles from the Noesis  CD) agitate neuronal cells that trigger rushes of adrenaline and shudders of dark, oneiric pleasure. Immense.“

SECOND SIGHT – CLOCK DVA 

Second Sight is the long-missing “lost album” in Clock DVA’s discography. The 2010s marked not only the rebirth of the group founded by Adi Newton but also the beginning of a new artistic phase—the third—distinct not just chronologically but creatively from the two preceding eras. The Clock DVA of the third millennium are Adi Newton and Maurizio TeZ Martinucci.

Clock DVA’s first phase was shaped in Sheffield from their inception in 1978 and concluded with the 1983 album Advantage; the second phase unfolded between Berlin and Florence, beginning with the widely acclaimed masterpiece Buried Dreams (1989) and ending with Sign (1993).

Beyond archival material (essential for contextualizing the early lineups revolving around Adi Newton’s charismatic presence), the 2010s saw little new output from Clock DVA’s third phase—save for Post-Sign, which served as an archival epilogue to the ’90s second phase.

While Noesis (2022) established the new sonic paradigm for this third phase, the enigmatic “black hole” of Clock DVA’s 2010s remained. The track selection for Second Sight was personally curated by Adi Newton and Maurizio TeZ Martinucci over three years, with a singular mission: to fill that void.

Scrutinizing live setlists and meticulously combing through global recording sessions allowed the duo to compile the finest work of their 2010s collaboration. The anthology faithfully captures the third phase’s sonic essence, drawing entirely from releases like the mini-LP/USB Clock 2 (2014, featuring two alternate versions here) and the Neoteric EP (2016)—united for the first time. Rarities include the opener Endless (from the 2019 Armcomm Sampler) and one magnificent unreleased track, Re_arketechton, destined to thrill collectors and fans. The collection culminates with two Noesis tracks exclusive to the 2022 CD edition: The Simulacra and Drive the Exotic Non-Essentials.

Sealing Clock DVA’s renaissance and immortalizing their 2010s sound in a single album, Second Sight is the definitive showcase of the sonic project’s richness and quality under Adi Newton and Maurizio TeZ Martinucci. Enjoy the journey.

Second Sight :: Tracklisting

1. A1 – ENDLESS :: Originally published in the ARMComm Sampler anthology, released in 2019 on CD by ARMCOMM/Somnimage, catalog number ARMComm CD 003, and never reprinted until its reappearance in Second Sight.
2. A2 – THE KONSTRUCTOR :: Originally released on the mini LP Clock 2, published in 2014 in the Memory Stick format by Anterior Research Media Comm, catalog number ARM USB 001, and later re-released in remixed versions on vinyl and CD.
3. A3 – RE-RAYONIST :: The original version was published on the mini LP Clock 2, released in 2014 on Memory Stick by Anterior Research Media Comm, catalog number ARM USB 001; the version present on Second Sight was originally released on CDr by CrackNation Records in 2016 on the V compilation of the Cold Waves series and has never been re-released.
4. B1 – KABARET 13 ZVUKONIS REMIX :: The original version was published on the mini LP Clock 2, released in 2014 in the Memory Stick format by Anterior Research Media Comm, catalog number ARM USB 001; the version featured in Second Sight had never been previously released.
5. B2 – RE_ARKETECHTON :: A track present in Clock DVA’s early live sets in the 2010s but never previously released on any format.
6. C1 – NEOTERIC :: Originally released on CD in 2016 on the eponymous single Neoteric by Anterior Research Media Communication (ARM CD 002), reissued on vinyl in 2019 by ARMComm.
7. C2 – SENTINEL :: Originally released on CD in 2016 on the eponymous single Neoteric by Anterior Research Media Communication (ARM CD 002), reissued on vinyl in 2019 by ARMComm.
8. D1 – IMMISSION :: Originally released on CD in 2016 on the eponymous single Neoteric by Anterior Research Media Communication (ARM CD 002), reissued on vinyl in 2019 by ARMComm.
9. D2 – DRIVE THE EXOTIC NON-ESSENTIALS :: Originally released on CD in 2023 as a bonus track on the album Noesis (and indeed not included on the vinyl version), issued by Rizosfera Armcomm Europe under catalog number ARMEU 004. The track has long been part of Clock DVA’s repertoire of compositions, dating back artistically to the 2010s.
10. D3 – THE SIMULACRA :: Originally released on CD in 2023 as a bonus track on the album Noesis (and indeed not included on the vinyl version), issued by Rizosfera Armcomm Europe under catalog number ARMEU 004. The track has long been part of Clock DVA’s repertoire of compositions, dating back artistically to the 2010s.

Credits

• Musicians: Adi Newton & TeZ Maurizio Martinucci
• Lyrics: Adi Newton
• All compositions: Newton / Martinucci
• Tracklist curation: Adi Newton & TeZ Maurizio Martinucci
• Cover image: Adi Newton, Binary Construct of Vladimir Mayakovsky, 2007
• Additional graphics: DVATION
• Graphic layout: Gabriele Fantuzzi
• Published by: Mute Song
• Copyright: Armcomm Rizosfera Europa / Clock DVA
• Production year: 2026
• Made in Italy / EU