Untitled Noise

Rozzo was born of the encounter between Jacopo Benassi and Untitled Noise (Michele Lombardelli and Luca Scarabelli): artists and musicians who, in different ways, operate between the visual and the sonic, understood as autonomous expressions that develop on parallel levels. Despite their different research and poetics, their sound production is united by a decisive experimentalism and a distant punk matrix, a common need to be in a liminal, fluid territory, deliberately outside the unmediated mainstream.

Rozzo is much more than a record: it’s an artist’s project, a maxi single consisting of three tracks, published by Tonini Editore only on vinyl in 200 copies and accompanied by a photographic booklet as an integral part of it. The three tracks – including two covers, Lou Reed’s Venus in furs and The Doors’ The end – are melodic in nature, a novel choice for a tribute to two icons of music history. The tracks are freely revisited, reshaped to the point of turning the original into a pure pretext for a new, raw, unadorned rhythm. The cacophonous flow of electro-acoustic collage to which Untitled Noise has accustomed us gives way to Benassi’s impure, instinctive voice, alternating with the chords and reverberations of Lombardelli’s guitar.