catalogue

ZU & EUGENE ROBINSON

THE LEFT HAND PATH (TROST RECORDS)

ZU & EUGENE ROBINSON - THE LEFT HAND PATH 77981
format:
1 LP
release:
21.11.2014
label:
TROST RECORDS
item ID:
77981
barcode:
9120036681743
Zu has always been a mercurial and ever changing entity, not afraid of cross-genre explorations and breaking down barriers between musical styles.

Despite playing traditional instruments, major influences on Zu music have always been sonic explorers like Coil, Throbbing Gristle or early Neubauten.

The Left Hand Path is the side of Zu that has always been hidden and underlying in all their previous music.Its like digging out a box from the earth.

TLHP is everything the band had wished to highlight in previous works: , ambient and droney landscapes, and acoustic explorations in obscurity.

The album starts programmatically with the sound of a shovel digging the earth. Its a soundtrack for a descent in the underworld.

Its moon musick. All the members played electronics and Massimo focused mostly on guitars .

The recordings were then sent to Eugene S Robison of Oxbow fame. Zu knew he was the right person to add vocals to it, and to transform the music again, in a sort of contemporary post- everything voodoo blues.

luca t mai - saxophone, electronics jacopo battaglia - electronics massimo pupillo - acoustic and electric guitars, bass guitar, electronics eugene s.

robinson - vocals
 
  • Tracklisting
  • 1.1. WAITER WAITED
  • 1.2. TAKING THE GIVE
  • 1.3. NIGHTLY A SKY
  • 1.4. A SLICK NOT SPOKEN OF NOW. OR AGAIN.
  • 1.5. IN THE CORNER. OF THE CORNER APART
  • 1.6. LOOKING FOR THE DEVIL
  • 1.7. THE RELAXING
  • 1.8. TAKE-AWAY TRUCK
  • 1.9. PHONE CALL FROM A WELL DRESSED MAN
  • 1.10. BEG
  • 1.11. SHAME ON ME
  • 1.12. 6 O'CLOCK
  • 1.13. PRAYLUDE
  • 1.14. LAND LORD
  • 1.15. THE KEY TO GOOD DENTAL HEALTH
  • 1.16. WE'RE ALL FRIENDS
  • 1.17. ENTERLUDE
  • 1.18. NEAR TO SLEEP
  • 1.19. PINNING THE BODY TO THE SOUL