NO WAVE music

"Italia-No!" compilation, out now on Spittle Records 

Taking up the gauntlet thrown down by New York’s No Wave scene, many Italian bands of the early 80s, playing far from the footlights of the world’s stage, began creating compelling, and often cutting edge, hybrid sounds. This kind of experimenting soon went viral along the entire peninsula: from Southern Italy to the Alps, creating a brave new Italian take on post-punk. From the nervous white funk of Neopolitans, Bisca, to the instrumental explorations of Confusional Quartet, to the “fake jazz” of the Hi-Fi Bros (who even had a track produced by Arto Lindsay), to Band Aid, this collection testifies to one of the most creative periods of the Italian underground. Featuring the previously unreleased bonus track by La Maison, “Noise Express”.

For more information: http://www.discogs.com/Various-Italia-No-Contaminazioni-No-Wave-Italiane-1980-1985/release/4567432

Lizzy Mercier Descloux - "Fire" (Arthur Brown cover), 1979

"No Wave. Contorsionismi e sperimentazioni dal CBGB al Tenax"

New Italian book on No Wave with pics and interviews

(Glenn Branca, Nina Canal, Rhys Chatham, Mark Cunningham, Jody Harris, Arto Lindsay, Lydia Lunch, Steve Piccolo, Weasel Walter)

For more information: http://www.no-wave.it

Mars - The Immediate Stages of the Erotic

ImpLOG - She Creatures

The Static - My Relationship

Destroy All Monsters - You Can't Kill Kill

Rhys Chatham - Guitar Trio

Confusional Quartet - Volare

Teenage Jesus and the Jerks - Orphans

Half Japanese - Calling All Girls

Hi-Fi Bros - Stranger in the night