Andrea Pizzo and The Purple Mice return with the third chapter of the Come Out Lazarus cycle, the luminous new single “Come Out Lazarus 3 – I Was The Universe.” Released on 19 July 2026, the track forms part of the collective’s broader conceptual project People Zero and marks the most immediate and radiant work the Genova-based group has created to date.
Where the first chapter of the cycle examined a fatal accident and organ donation from the outside, and the second entered the near-death experience itself, this third song is the return. Someone has come back and attempts to describe what almost no one will believe, what most will dismiss as a dream. What he carries is not fear but a strange peace: the memory of having been one with everything, the Universe itself, the final destination of every living being like the sea into which all rivers flow, some fast, some slow. The title is the destination: I was the universe.
Musically, the song is the project’s most luminous offering. It borrows the architecture of gospel — the chorus as collective proclamation, the slow build, the release — yet turns that structure toward transcendence rather than the sacred. Beatles-like atmospheres are filtered through a contemporary lens, underpinned by a melancholy undertow in the spirit of Mike Oldfield. Voices lead throughout, carried by keyboards, drums, bass and electric guitar in a sound that floats more than it pushes, perfectly suited to a song about a dream no one believes.
The closing section belongs to arranger and multi-instrumentalist Roberto Tiranti: an extreme falsetto, piercing and high in the Prince tradition, ringing with the clarity of a gospel singer. It is the song’s emotional summit, the voice leaving the body, made audible.
Andrea Pizzo and The Purple Mice are a Genova-based musical collective who sing in English and have built an international following through their conceptual approach to indie and art-pop. Their work explores science, technology, transhumanism and the limits of human experience. The 2025 album Transhumanity earned a 7/10 from Mystic Sons (UK), while the EP We Are All Bots received coverage from The Indie Grid, Illustrate Magazine, Extravafrench and The Other Side Reviews, among others. The project has found particular resonance in the Czech Republic, Poland, the Netherlands and South America.
An unusual case in the Ligurian landscape: born in Genova, the collective has found its audience in Prague, Warsaw and Amsterdam, singing in English about artificial intelligence, transhumanism and the edges of consciousness. The group continues to explore new musical horizons; their recent single “The Machine” further reflects on the relationship between humans and artificial intelligence, underlining their ongoing engagement with the scientific and technological themes that define their artistic journey.
