Zu - The Lost Demo [LP]

SUBSOUND (CODE 7)

£18.34

Cat. no: SSR00127
Format: LP
Barcode: 0739608910731
Release Date: 21 Jun 2024
Genre: Hard Rock and Metal

Since 1995, the three founding members of Zu (Jacopo Battaglia, Luca Mai and Massimo Pupillo), spent pretty much all their daytime in a rehearsal room in Rome playing together and trying to fnd their own unique voice

A deep link being their shared love for NoMeansNo and The Ruins, but bringing in all kinds of different infuences and taste, the three didn't exclude any possibility: hence you will hear electronic sequences, tape manipulations, acoustic cello (played by their friend Francesco Chiari), and of course their frst iconoclastic outbursts for sax, bass and drums. A lot more was already part of Zu's DNA, including an instinctive ability to digest the myriads of infuences that permeated them, without ever copying anything but transforming it all into their own personal voice.

After about two years of intense rehearsals, this tape was the frst demo they sent out. The cassette circulated around so much that Zu themselves no longer found a copy, until recently when one mysteriously reappeared, intact and still perfectly listenable: which, digitalised and mastered, becomes now, 25 years later, The Lost Demo.

LP Tracks: Villa Belmonte / Cane Maggiore / Shin Jin Rui / El Nino / Film Nero