ZU: "Rudra Dances Over Burning Rome"

I perked up this morning at news of an LP from the jazz wreckage trio ZU, Cortar Todo.  The first single from the upcoming album is called "Rudra Dances Over Burning Rome" and if you like your Albert Ayler coupled with kick blasts and scraping low end, then this is for you.  Cortar Todo will be released via Ipecac Recordings on March 23rd, just in time for Spring.  Check out the track below:



After you check out the track, read up on the new album.  All info has been provided by Rarely Unable.

And, if you're wanting to read more, here's a review of the band's Public Guilt reissue of their album, The Way of the Animal Powers.  You can check that out at No Ripcord. 

ZU ANNOUNCE THEIR BRAND NEW FULL LENGTH, CORTAR TODO, UPCOMING ON IPECAC RECORDINGS ON 23RD MARCH

LISTEN TO "RUDRA DANCES OVER BURNING ROME"
https://soundcloud.com/ipecacrecordings/zu-rudra-dances-over-burning-rome/s-ut0Z5

In March 2015, ZU are preparing to release a brand new full length via Ipecac Recordings, entitled Cortar Todo.

For over fifteen years, ZU's modus operandi of straddling and abusing musical genres has resulted in over fifteen unique album releases across labels such as Ipecac, Atavistic and Headz (Japan). Their experimental amalgam of metal, math, no-wave, noise and electronics, led acclaimed composer John Zorn to describe their sound as "a powerful and expressive music that totally blows away what most bands do these days".

In the running for the title of 'the world's hardest working band', ZU have performed over 2000 shows throughout Europe, US, Canada, Asia, Russia, Mexico and even Africa, touring with the like of Mike Patton (as the Zu/Patton quartet), also sharing the stage with Faith No More, Fantomas, The Melvins, Lightning Bolt, Sonic Youth, The Ex, and countless others. They have also collaborated with a vast number of musicians including Mike Patton, The Melvins, Dälek, Jim O' Rourke, FM Einheit (Einsturzende Neubauten), Peter Brötzmann, Nobukazu Takemura, Eugene Robinson (Oxbow), Steve MacKay (The Stooges), The Ex, Thurston Moore, Stephen O Malley, Damo Suzuki (Can), Mats Gustafsson, NoMeansNo, Joe Lally (Fugazi).

Five years since their last full length on Ipecac, the critically acclaimed Carboniferous, and following a three year hiatus, ZU returned in May 2014 with the release of a brand new EP, Goodnight Civilization (Trost Records) and with a line up change that introduced the mighty Gabe Serbian, best known as the drummer for the legendary Californian band, The Locust.

Recorded in the countryside near Bologna, Italy, in the summer of 2014, the album features some very special guests including keyboard player Joey Karam (The Locust), Italian guitar maverick Stefano Pilia (who plays regularly with the likes of Mike Watt, David Grubbs and Rokia Traore) and perhaps most unexpectedly, a field recording of an indigenous Shipibo medicine man recorded by Massimo during his travels around the Amazon.

Cortar Todo reveals new dynamics from the band, the album is more direct, sharp, focussed, and more intense and musical than anything we have heard from ZU so far.

www.ipecac.com

Sincerely,
Letters From A Tapehead