Uzeda
Nervous, jagged noise rock with a metallic edge. Sharp rhythmic shifts and raw vocals that feel like a live wire in a small, concrete room.
Nervous, jagged noise rock with a metallic edge. Sharp rhythmic shifts and raw vocals that feel like a live wire in a small, concrete room.
Uzeda sounds like the physical manifestation of tension. It is music built on the architecture of the 'Albini sound' - dry, room-heavy drums that hit with bone-cracking force and guitars that sound like sheet metal being sheared. There is a Mediterranean heat beneath the cold, mechanical precision of their math-rock structures, creating a sound that is both intellectual and visceral.
What sets them apart is the interplay between Giovanna Cacciola’s urgent, often spoken-to-shouted vocals and the band’s restless rhythmic shifts. They don't just play loud; they use silence and sudden stops as weapons. The music feels constantly on the verge of a breakdown, yet it is held together by a terrifyingly tight chemistry that only a band playing together for decades can achieve.
Start with 'Different Section Wires' to hear them at their most focused and ferocious. It captures the essence of their 90s peak, where the jagged edges of math rock meet the raw power of noise rock. It is the perfect entry point for anyone who finds beauty in friction and rhythmic complexity.
Uzeda is an Italian underground rock group founded in Catania, Sicily, in 1987 by lead singer Giovanna Cacciola, guitarists Agostino Tilotta and Giovanni Nicosia, bassist Raffaele Gulisano and drummer Davide Oliveri. Steve Albini met the band after the release of their first album Out of Colours and they became great friends; from that moment he recorded all their records except for The Peel Sessions. In 1994 the band was invited to the John Peel Show on BBC, from that recordings was published an album and, at the end of the year, Nicosia left the band. After the live tour promoting Different Section Wires, the band went on a lengthy hiatus, and Cacciola and Tilotta subsequently formed Bellini, along with drummer Damon Che from Don Caballero, and bassist Matthew Taylor releasing Snowing Sun on Monitor Records and Palace Records. Replaced Damon Che with Alexis Fleisig (Girls Against Boys), Bellini released Small Stones and The Precious Prize of Gravity on Temporary Residence Limited. During this period, Oliveri and Gulisano recorded the 2001 album Aria with Gianna Nannini, as well as music for Enzo D'Alò's animated cartoon Momo alla conquista del tempo. In 2006, Uzeda came back with a new album, Stella, recorded again by Steve Albini.
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