Tommaso Salvini has reviewed ZIST “NOIANOISER” on the pages of his blog: Ortica Xoundz.
Here’s an English translation of it:
“Sitting at any table in the outdoor space of any bar in the center of any universe, lost in amiable chat. Familiar sounds come out of the moving cars: Black Candy by Beat Happening, White Light White Heat by Velvet, Songs the Lord Taught Us by Cramps, Tangle by Thinking Fellers Union…
ZIST, with good elocution, talks about Burroughs’ Naked Lunch, Pasolini’s Salò and, given the situation, everything seems normal: in the end we are ordinary people sitting at any bar in any universe. ZIST sings and plays the absolute and the inconceivable and makes it seem pop, with a master’s touch he manages it and makes it understandable, even bearable. With a serious tone he describes non-Euclidean geometries, the awakening of ancient greats, he plays at songwriting as one plays at massacre among three-year-olds equipped with switchblades. Yet you relax while listening and you wish, indeed, that all this could last forever…
ZIST takes the Absurd and brings it into reality, makes the Absurd become real and even makes you hum it happily.
This album is a short work that condenses long and complicated reasoning, cuts them down without making them lose identity and intensity and also manages to make them seem simple, convivial. A certain hostility certainly shines through, but it is necessary so as not to make the whole thing sound banal. It ranges from a Cramps-style Rockabilly to more edible Half Japanese-style suggestions. Bizarre but with a sense of proportion.
In the internet age anyone could listen to these notes, it would be good to attack them without making them feel the violence of the attack.
In times like ours, terrible, fatal, direct consequence of a disaffection for one’s own gender (the human race) that matured during the pandemic period, the Absurd, the Unlikely, have become almost like comfortable refuges: faced with a reality that drives everyone towards massacre, it is good to do as ZIST; telling the world from a distorted, adorably Lo-Fi lens, and not giving up on promoting and propagandizing self-production as a response to the world of inhuman business, opaque social media managers, CEOs without feelings.
Shine so as not to give up.”
For the Italian version visit his blog here.
Listen to “NOIANOISER” by ZIST here .
