Crash Box - Il mio inferno (tape) #1987

hard-to-find tape compilation for these italian punk/hc dinosaurs.

don't know why but the mp3 files don't match exactly with the tracklist (there's another version of Nato per vivere veloce and the Outro (Crash Crew) track is apparently missing).

anyway, it surely deserves a click.

* Tracks a01 to a07 recorded in February 1983 @ Hammil Studio, Milano, Italy.

* Tracks a08 to a16 and b01 to b03 recorded in May 1983 @ Panda Studio, Milano.

* Track a17 recorded live on May 21st, 1983 @ Virus, Milano.

* Tracks b04 to b05 recorded live on May 31st, 1985 @ C.S. Leoncavallo, Milano.

* Track b07 extract from an interview on July 9th, 1984 @ "Hell Hole" on WNYU, NY with Titty, Marco and Fabricius. Tracks La trappola/Sangue: recorded in March/April 1984 @ Lupo Studio, Vercelli, Italy.

* Tracks b07 and b08 recorded on March 28th, 1987 at Record release party @ Virus, Milano.

* Track b09 recorded in December 1986 @ Sintesi Studio, Milano.

Tracklist:

a01. Sono io la vittima

a02. Noi

a03. Accuso

a04. Nessuna colpa

a05. Nato per essere veloce

a06. Veleno per voi

a07. Crash box

a08. Il mio inferno

a09. Senza uscita

a10. Crash box II

a11. Non so tacere

a12. Ascolta

a13. Na-y

a14. Nessuna colpa

a15. Noi

a16. Sotto la mia pelle

a17. Nato per essere veloce

a18. Crash box II

b01. Accuso

b02. Veleno per voi

b03. Sono io la vittima

b04. Se devo vivere

b05. Troppi rimpianti

b06. "1984 Escape from N.Y"/La trappola/Sangue

b07. Io confesso

b08. Sul filo del rasoio

b09. Sul filo del rasoio

*****

Fru-Aut - Fru-Aut (demotape) #1985

Demotape del 1985 per i FRU AUT di Bassano del Grappa.

Capitanati da Uber Cavalli (ex militante nelle fila dei bizzarri conterranei PLASTICOST) affiancato da Matteo Balanc, Gigi Cavalli, Vinicio Mazzini, Gino Morello e Gianni Nichele. Un lato A con un frizzante post-punk tinteggiato da una vaga psichedelia lisergica per approdare a un lato B sperimentale ed esoterico. Dopo questo tape realizzarono un mlp 1988 per la torinese Toast Records e nel 1994 l'album A sangue freddo.

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Tracklist:

a1. Tesò

a2. Verderame

b1. Sdies Nuzna Vainà

b2. Glu Glu

*****

Zu - Bromio #1999

ZU, an all-instrumental Italian band (Massimo Pupillo on bass, Jacopo Battaglia on drums, Luca Mai on saxophone, and, on the first album, Roy Paci on trumpet), played some of the most adventurous post-rock music at the turn of the century, occasionally evoking the legendary LAST EXIT with Sharrock's guitar replaced by Pupillo's bass.

They fine-tuned their aesthetics through a series of theatrical soundtracks ("Vladimir Majakovskj", "Il Funambolo", "Histoire du Rock'n'Roll", "Octavia") and eventually debuted with Bromio (Wide, 1999) in a wild, loud and fast style that harked back to the heydays of jazzcore (SACCHARINE TRUST, UNIVERSAL CONGRESS, THE EX). They simultaneously sprayed bits of funk onto their convoluted mix in the manner of THE CONTORTIONS (Detonatore) and launched into gargantuan free-jazz fanfares (Xenitis, Asmodeo). Their tone runs the gamut from brainy (the hiccupping Testa di cane) to droll (the vaudeville-like Zu circus). The interplay is both geometrical and intricate, as best displayed in the frenzied Erotomane. While most compositions stick to a unitary core with little or no movement, La grande madre delle bestie ends the album with a transition from chaotic partying to melancholy introspection. Each of these short pieces is a strike at the core of prog-rock. By the standards of jazz-rock, this is harsh and jarring music.

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Tracklist:

01. Detonatore

02. Xenitis

03. Testa di cane

04. Paonazzi

05. Zu circus

06. Asmodeo

07. Cane maggiore

08. Epidurale

09. Villa Belmonte

10. Erotomane

11. La grande madre delle bestie

*****

Bologna Violenta - Uno bianca #2014

Uno bianca is the fourth BOLOGNA VIOLENTA's full lenght album, out on February 2014 thanks to Woodworm, Wallace Records and Dischi Bervisti.

This concept album is based on the crimes of the “Banda della Uno Bianca”, a gang formed by five policemen and a civilian operating in the Bologna area (from 1987 to 1994), which made more than hundred crimes, killing twenty four people and wounding more than hundred.

The gang's name is taken from the type of car used for the crimes, a white Fiat Uno, very popular in Italy in those years.

The gang, led by Savi brothers, has always been known for the brutality of its operations that didn't save the lives of those who was between criminals and their purpose. The album goes over twenty-seven steps in its criminal history, a sort of imaginary soundtrack of the gang's worst crimes against gas stations, motorway tollbooths, banks and supermarkets.

Uno bianca is characterized by extreme sounds, made even more dramatic by the massive use of string orchestras. The song form is completely abandoned, the track structures are modeled on the progress of events, as reported by the procedural acts.

BOLOGNA VIOLENTA wants to pay homage to the city of Bologna, telling through music one of his most violent stories ever. He does it with an extremely dark album, in which the death bell rings to remember the tragedy and madness of those times.

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Tracklist:

01. 19 giugno 1987 - Pesaro: rapina casello A-14   

02. 31 agosto 1987 - San Lazzaro di Savena (Bo): rapina casello A-14

03. 3 ottobre 1987 - Cesena: tentata estorsione

04. 30 gennaio 1988 - Rimini: rapina supermercato Coop

05. 19 febbraio 1988 - Casalecchio di Reno (Bo): rapina supermercato Coop

06. 20 aprile 1988 - Castelmaggiore (Bo): attacco pattuglia Carabinieri

07. 19 settembre 1988 - Forlì: rapina supermercato Coop

08. 26 giugno 1989 - Bologna: rapina supermercato Coop

09. 15 gennaio 1990 - Bologna: rapina ufficio postale

10. 6 ottobre 1990 - Bologna: rapina tabaccheria

11. 10 dicembre 1990 - Bologna: assalto campo Rom

12. 22 dicembre 1990 - Bologna: attacco lavavetri extracomunitari

13. 23 dicembre 1990 - Bologna: assalto campo Rom

14. 27 dicembre 1990 - Castelmaggiore (Bo): rapina distributore

15. 4 gennaio 1991 - Bologna: attacco pattuglia Carabinieri

16. 20 aprile 1991 - Bologna: rapina distributore

17. 30 aprile 1991 - Rimini: attacco pattuglia Carabinieri

18. 2 maggio 1991 - Bologna: rapina armeria Volturno

19. 19 giugno 1991 - Cesena: rapina distributore

20. 18 agosto 1991 - San Mauro a Mare (Fc): agguato auto senegalesi

21. 28 agosto 1991 - Gradara (Ps): scontro a fuoco con due poliziotti

22. 24 febbraio 1993 - Zola Predosa (Bo): rapina banca

23. 7 ottobre 1993 - Riale (Bo): rapina banca

24. 3 marzo 1994 - Bologna: rapina banca

25. 24 maggio 1994 - Pesaro: rapina banca

26. 21 ottobre 1994 - Bologna: rapina banca

27. 29 marzo 1998 - Rimini: suicidio Giuliano Savi

*****

Lightning Bolt - John Peel session #2004

Easily the best release from this band, as it's basically better versions of all their best songs. It was from a show in early 2005, so it's between Wonderful rainbow and Hypermagic mountain, and you can hear how there's early versions of a few Hypermagic mountain songs on here (tracks 2, 5, and the ending of track 4).

The studio albums have a hard time capturing them with this kind of intensity. Brian and Brian add so much more energy to the tracks in the live setting than they could ever possibly do in the studio. The climaxes are all amplified and songs flow into each other seamlessly in perfect fashion, often while they are in full noisy apocalypse mode. You can hear just how many hours these two guys have obviously been jamming together to become this tight with each other.

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Tracklist:

01. Intro
02. 2 morro morro land
03. On fire
04. Dracula mountain
05. Dead cowboy
06. 30000 monkies
07. Rotator

*****

Squadra Omega - Materia Oscura #2017

SQUADRA OMEGA is one of the bands which best represents the vast spectrum of the Italian underground. Psychedelic, avant-garde, jazz-rock, improvisation, kraut-rock, rock in opposition and ethno-tribalism blend seamlessly into the work of a collective that moves and expands depending on the urgency of the moment, focused around a core that rotates around the two members OmegaMatt and OmegaG8. In the band's wide discography we find compositional freedom, improvised jam-sessions in and a amplitude of references, all of which move between different spaces and times.

Materia Oscura (Dark matter) offers a glimpse at the same time the soil of the "rock" matter as well as the alien, seen from multiple points of view, neighbors and materials distant and mysterious. Three tracks that stretch their eyes at Orient or Africa as well as into the depths of the cosmos, landing on the side of the art-rock of the '70s and towards some psychedelic, visionary, cinematic drives then explode into a real ecstatic trip. Inputs from Coltrane, Canterburian jazz-rock, GRATEFUL DEAD and Synthy-Space views are melted into free-form landings until they discover their own personal form of prog. Different Universes collide and coexist in the band in a constant mutation, maintaining faith in one single ideal: "music for the third eye”.

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Tracklist:

01. Massa mancante

02. Mondo-brana

03. Le oscillazioni dell'universo giovane

*****