The Zen Circus are made in their own way: stinging, maybe a little 'populist, angry and absolutely over the top. Take it or leave it. Even when they say that we are all "people of shit" ("the wind that scatters"), which we must all go aff. When they stage a theater of everyday life and chipped the province where their eyes can see chronic illness, anger, spleen , disillusionment. They sing this outspoken and not try to sweeten the pill. It is their way of seeing reality, and I will slam in your face. A condensed rage inside an envelope of music from folk-punk wave and always welcomes coloring you put into words flecked sour their verve by toscanaccio true. "Rather than going over the top we are under the lines, since the bar of indecency has risen increasingly upward," says UFO, the bassist of the trio in concert tonight at Pisa to Cagliari in the Civic Theatre Karel Music Expo, organized by Vox Day "In our cynical words, there is certainly a component, but it is the cynicism of our Tuscan, which is quite acidic and can be confused with defeatism. It comes from impatience we always hatched in sixteen-year career, but now that we sing in Italian emerge with greater poignancy. " The Zen Circus - Appino, Skull and Ufo - born in 1994 and since then they have released six albums, the last one ("Go fuck all", released on Unhip Records and The Tempest, a title which is "a tribute to anything and everything that makes a lot of power in Italy") is the first ever to be written entirely in the language of Dante. Perhaps that's why words come first and most striking. "We toured the country for a long time and we love Italy," gloss still the bass player, "but because we love Italy we turn the boxes to see how a country that promises so much has been stranded in this way." The strategy, if you can call it, the Zen is easily summed up: "trying to provoke the indignation of the people who this has not been more outraged if not for things that do not matter. The country was deserted, although there are many people with great potential, a legion of good guys, artists, workers, associations, but fails to reverse the moral climate that is in this country. " But do not just think of them as a group that shoots judgments on the society in which we live. Because it is ultimately a light-hearted group of guys from the bar and easily one of the best live band in Italy, able to take the stage like few others. Where the component songwriting of the band takes a backseat in favor of a much rock. In fact, especially in recent records, it is sometimes showed a softer approach that might also involve the use of Italian and a more direct comparison with the Italian musical tradition. "Now that we are bigger than we can deal with the language. We come from punk rock, music Anglophone rock for us is this. But as time goes on more and accept the comparison with Italian music. But regarding possible influences in this tradition, I think a lot depends on an identification which is activated in the listener, and if you listen to something rough and sound in your language declined, perhaps no longer think the Violent Femmes but Rino Gaetano. On the other hand I think if one extracts the text and only the music we hear is rock regardless. I stopped believing in the distinction between Italian and English rock: there is an Italian rock. I see the Zen as a rock band, who incidentally sings in Italian. Then of course we did a little 'peace with our past Italian, but remained firmly in the rock. (Andrea Tramonte, Unione Sarda )
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