ITALIAN TOUR 2011
april 201113 ROMA DalVerme17 BOSCOREALE ex Stazione FS18 GANGI Agriturismo Capuano19 CATANIA Glamour
20 CATANIA CSA Auro
22 PALERMO Tavola Tonda
23+24 PALERMO workshop Tavola Tonda
25 MARINA DI GIOIOSA JONICA Blue Dhalia28 COPERTINO i Sotterranei
29 MOLFETTA Le Macerie30 SAN GIORGIO JONICO Hotel de Villemay 20111 CORSANO Japigie2 RUSSI Casa del Vento3 KOPER (Slovenia) MKC4 BOLOGNA XM245 FIRENZE Circolo Aurora6 PESARO Dalla Cira7 SAN VITO DI LEGUZZANO CSC(col supporto di
SuccoAcidoBooking,
RougeBooking,
Musicclub)
“Esuberante e indomito, mai banale, il disco mostra dei musicisti in stato di grazia, capaci anche di abbandonarsi all’improvvisazione pura e semplice se necessario.“
- OndaRock
"Both musically and lyrically, no punches are pulled. The group appear to take lyrical inspiration from the likes of Crass and the Ex, but updated for a new era. Tsigoti will win you over, and you’ll be hitting play again and again. this is a band with something to say and the means for saying it like nobody else could even conceptualize".
- Foxy Digitalis
"If Primus & Gogol Bordello spent a weekend listening to Jello Biafra & Noam Chomsky."
- YouTube
“Rocambolesca e intellettuale, la musica degli Tsigoti fa del suo polimorfismo medium e messaggio. Contro ogni guerra. Che è, comunque la si voglia mettere, pur sempre terrorrismo.”
- Rock-it
"The music itself is mostly fast-paced, off-beat, punk rock that perfectly complements the anti-war themes of the songs. This is in a league with Jello Biafra and the Guantanamo School of Medicine".
- KFJC Radio
"Tsigoti is an exercise in political debauchery and a forward vocal delivery of self-restraint from Thollem Mcdonas that comes a-swingin’ right out of the gate. Behind this lies the wirey, convulsive guitars of mastermind Jacopo Andreini that become the driving force of this quasi-punk anthem, while the rhythm section spends time deconstructing things down into No-Wave-esque breakdowns and pummeling, fluid drumming".
- Tiny Mix Tapes
“When we compare the fusion of these sensations to a sort of feverish pagan ritual and listen to this set with the same attitude of, say, looking at a shaman dressed like a young Joe Strummer, the honesty of intentions begins to clash (pun definitely intended) with our previous ideas pretty hard. Bizarrely frank stuff.”
- Touching extremes
DiscographyWARISTERRORTERRORISWAR "TheBrutalRealityOfModernBrutality"
TSIGOTI "PrivatePovertySpeaksToThePeopleOfTheParty"
TSIGOTI "On the Way to The Double Speak Drown" on KFJC compilation
TSIGOTI "TheImaginationLiberationFrontThinksAgain" (to be released in 2011)
TSIGOTI is coming again for its new european tour. A new album recorded during winter 2010, changed line-up, same determination, passion and energy on stage. The band recently played a 6 weeks, 30 shows and 9000km tour in the USA and it's ready to do more. The next tour will take place in Italy from april 15th to may 8th, 2011.
Be part of it.Thollem McDonas – piano, voice
Jacopo Andreini – guitar
Piero Spitilli – bass
Andrea Caprara – drums
CONTACTS & BOOKING (Europe)
afoforomusicclub@gmail.com
www.afoforomusicclub.blogspot.com
www.thollem.com/tsigoti
+39 333 8612656
LISTEN
http://soundcloud.com/afoforomusicclub
video clips:
http://www.youtube.com/tsigoti
http://www.youtube.com/tsigoti#p/a/u/0/kaLTn5cyMlw by Tsigoti
http://www.youtube.com/tsigoti#p/u/3/bzX4A8LC7fg by Tuia Cherici
www.manucinema.blogspot.com
http://www.youtube.com/tsigoti#p/u/2/JoKlua_OSWY by Tab_ularasa
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=57SNpLrG6UI&feature=player_embedded by Tab_ularasa
http://vimeo.com/fuckcinema
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VSPJvR58Jq4&feature=related by Paul Oryem
http://kdhx.org
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hmuQiF80Z34&feature=related by Elfmangirl
Waristerror Terroriswar (Now TSIGOTI) is a collaborative and improvisational quazi-punk band dedicated to expressing their opposition for war, authoritarian regimes, and violent religious extremes. It's a band made up of members from two different continents with a tremendous amount of experience in a wide variety of musical situations. Their first album transpired the year after the 2006 war between Lebanon and Israel though it is not about that war specifically but war in general. Some songs were written in a few hours, and without teaching them to each other they recorded the first album "TheBrutalRealityOfModernBrutality" in 3 days. They met again one year later to record a second album "PrivatePovertySpeaksToThePeopleOfTheParty", play their first shows to wildly enthusiastic audiences, and reconfirm their collective skeptical optimism.
TSIGOTI (meaning 'I see' in Cherokee language) is the next step. Same people, same instruments, same improvisational spirit, now with more involvement and time to craft songs. This time war is seen from the inside, from people who suffer being attacked, trapped, imprisoned, terrorized and tricked. The music has become more complex, with guest musicians from our Valdisieve family (Edoardo Ricci, Samuele Venturin, Francesco di Mauro, and a choir of a dozen of friends). A multi-layered approach to the sound, exploiting new recording techniques and equipment, brings Tsigoti sound to your ears exploding in all its controversial spikes. The artwork is signed by master cartoonist Squaz and the album was released in december 2009 by ESP-Disk, distributed worldwide.
SQUARCICATRICI is actually working on the recordings made at La Scighera, Milano (thanks to Paolo Casati) to release a 6 tracks live EP. They have been invited to play at Magnolia Parade in Milan to share the stage with The Ex & Brass Unbound, LCD Soundsystem, UNKLE and many more on september 3rd, 2011, and they have planned to record the new album during fall 2011. A longer appetizer gig will be performed in Firenze at Circolo Aurora on september 2nd. Both with Andrea Di Lillo (of legendary Motocicica Tellacci) on drums!
will play in salento in august 2011. Confirmed gigs by now:
The NIPOZZANZIBARISHE BIG BAND (featuring Scott Rosenberg, Renato Cordovani, Edoardo Ricci, Stefano Bartolini, Andrea Caprara, Francesco di Mauro, Cosimo Boni, Marco Baldini, Filippo Giuffré, Matteo Bennici, Piero Spitilli, WJ Meatball and Jacopo Andreini) condensed the recordings from the august 2010 session in an album of original compositions by Rosenberg and Andreini plus a mesmerizing reinterpretation of a symphonic piece by Charles Mingus. The album could be released soon as T-Shirt with download code, or vinyl.
TSIGOTI after the 4 weeks italian tour recorded 6 new tracks with new-entry bassist Piero Spitilli. The previous album (TheImaginationLiberationFront ThinksAgain), still officially unreleased, is in the hands of Thurston Moore, Nels Cline, Mike Watt, Chris Cutler, Bernard Stollmann to be heard and waiting to be properly released. The band planned another italian tour nov. 24th - dec 12th.
ROUGE just recorded the material for the next two albums in Nipozzano. A trio/quartet album with maroccan qanunist Samir Hammouch with the material they are playing on stage in the last year, including the new quartet material composed with Hammouch and sang by the whole band in arabic; then the pre-production versions of the music for the project with Lotfi Bouchnak to be arranged and recorded in Tunis
A one-time band project just recorded a three days session in Nipozzano: GI GASPARIN (Pangolinorchestra, Else, Gi Napajo) on voice, guitar and rantola orizzontale, TOMAJ (Detriti, Pangolinorchestra) on voice and piano, ANDREA CAPRARA on bass and JACOPO ANDREINI on drums. The free-rock'n'roll music will be released soon by SanGiuseppeRec. At the same time Tomaj recorded a version of Franti's anthem "No Future" with voice and accordion for a tribute compilation to the band.
TSIGOTI is coming again for its new european tour. A new album recorded during winter 2010, changed line-up, same determination, passion and energy on stage. The band recently played a 6 weeks, 30 shows and 9000km tour in the USA and it's ready to do more. The next tour will take place in Italy from april 15th to may 8th, 2011. Be part of it.
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