Zu
Biography
Zu, the Roman metal/math/no-wave/free noise/punk/jazz trio, is perhaps
best known in the US as a band who have had an unbelievable line-up of
recording partners which includes The Stooges' Steve Mackay,
Fugazi's Joe
Lally and Guy Picciotto,
Sonic Youth's Thurston Moore, Can's Damo Suzuki, jazz masters Ken
Vandermark and Mats Gustafsson, percussionists Han Bennink and Hamid
Drake, improvisationalist Eugene Chadbourne and the like-minded Nobukazu
Takemura. Now making their
Ipecac debut,
Carboniferous follows a year of performing overseas with label owner
Mike Patton and features
contributions from both the aforementioned Patton and The
Melvins' King Buzzo.
Further cementing the Ipecac - Zu relationship is the rumored new
BigBand, this one coupling Zu and
dälek.
The Italian trio of Jacopo Battaglia (drums), Massimo Pupillo (bass) and Luca T. Mai (saxophone) formed in 1999 after having worked together in local theater. Driven by a punk rock work ethic, Zu have played an astounding number of over 1,000 gigs worldwide including Europe, North America, Asia, Russia, and even Africa. They have released fourteen albums to date.