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(Photo credit: Sara D'Uva)
ZU are
preparing to release their first new full-length in five years, titled Cortar
Todo and due out via Ipecac Recordings on the
rapidly approaching release date of March 23rd. The Quietus have revealed
the title track, an intensely rhythmic beast that seeps industrial fluid and
volatile flames of brass-bending static, and is symptomatic of the roaming,
alien sounds of the album.
LISTEN
TO "CORTAR TODO"
About Cortar
Todo...
For over fifteen years, ZU's modus operandi of straddling and abusing musical
genres has resulted in over fifteen unique album releases across labels such as
Ipecac, Atavistic and Headz (Japan). Their experimental amalgam of metal, math,
no-wave, noise and electronics, led acclaimed composer John Zorn to
describe their sound as "a powerful and expressive music that totally
blows away what most bands do these days".
In the running for the title of 'the world's hardest working band', ZU have
performed over 2000 shows throughout Europe, US, Canada, Asia, Russia, Mexico
and even Africa, touring with the like of Mike Patton (as the Zu/Patton
quartet), also sharing the stage with Faith No More, Fantomas, The
Melvins, Lightning Bolt, Sonic Youth, The Ex, and countless others. They
have also collaborated with a vast number of musicians including Mike
Patton, The Melvins, Dälek, Jim O' Rourke, FM Einheit (Einsturzende Neubauten),
Peter Brötzmann, Nobukazu Takemura, Eugene Robinson (Oxbow), Steve MacKay (The
Stooges), The Ex, Thurston Moore, Stephen O Malley, Damo Suzuki (Can), Mats
Gustafsson, NoMeansNo, Joe Lally (Fugazi).
Five years since their last full length on Ipecac, the critically acclaimed Carboniferous,
and following a three year hiatus, ZU returned in May 2014 with the release of
a brand new EP, Goodnight Civilization (Trost Records) and
with a line up change that introduced the mighty Gabe Serbian, best known as
the drummer for the legendary Californian band, The Locust.
Recorded in the countryside near Bologna, Italy, in the summer of 2014, the
album features some very special guests including keyboard player Joey Karam
(The Locust), Italian guitar maverick Stefano Pilia (who plays regularly with
the likes of Mike Watt, David Grubbs and Rokia Traore) and perhaps most
unexpectedly, a field recording of an indigenous Shipibo medicine man recorded
by Massimo during his travels around the Amazon.
Cortar Todo reveals new dynamics from the
band, the album is more direct, sharp, focussed, and more intense and musical
than anything we have heard from ZU so far. Check out the artwork and track
listing below.
TRACK
LIST:
1.
The Unseen War
2. Rudra Dances Over Burning Rome
3. Cortar Todo
4. A Sky Burial
5. Orbital Equilibria
6. Serpens Cauda
7. No Pasa Nada
8. Conflict Acceleration
9. Vantablack Vomitorium
10. Pantokrator
2. Rudra Dances Over Burning Rome
3. Cortar Todo
4. A Sky Burial
5. Orbital Equilibria
6. Serpens Cauda
7. No Pasa Nada
8. Conflict Acceleration
9. Vantablack Vomitorium
10. Pantokrator
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