MASSIMO PUPILLO - Industrial Slave LP

Limited edition of 300 copies.

Massimo Pupillo's (Zu) new solo album has been ignited by the poem of the same name by Native American author, poet, actor, musician, and political activist, John Trudell. This poem is so important for the concept that it will be heard in full at the beginning of the first track, and then leave space to sound itself.

A sound that describes and depicts a brave new world, a digital panopticon made of digital cages, barcodes, QR codes to access other QR codes, A.I., various passes, and surveillance cameras practically everywhere.

This sound lives today but it’s rooted and stems from 80s and 90s electronic and industrial movement, equally inspired by Spk or Clock DVA, as by Scorn and Techno Animal. Rooted in a world that wasn’t only a musical movement but interwoven with dystopian science fiction, Philip Dick , Robert Anton Wilson, on one side, and tribal voices on the other side.

Massimo Pupillo is mostly known for being a founding member of Zu, with whom he has released 18 albums and played more than 2000 shows around the world. He has also kept a very open and multidisciplinary approach that led him to work with some of the most acclaimed figures in today's world of arts: south african photographer Roger Ballen, actors Malcolm McDowell and Marton Csokas ,director Romeo Castellucci, (of legendary avant garde theatre group Societas Raffaello Sanzio), choreographer Meg Stuart, contemporary dance group Dewey Dell, etc