Propaganda Ministern were born in 2015 in one of the most culturally depressing and deprived areas in the whole Europe. Their minimalist, haunting and apocalyptic sound signature draws its own tugging path towards the reincarnation of those tips peaked by some of the notably oddest artists of the 20th century. Among them, Captain Beefheart, Velvet Underground, Neu!, Ramones, Suicide, Devo, Joy Division, Flipper, Killing Joke, Deutsch Amerikanische Freundschaft and Shellac of North America. They are cought on some sort of compelling motivation for a third millennium ideological nihilism, which comes with a featureless habit to the workings of consumerism. The frustrations stemming from that background are overtly expressed by the painstakingly regressive, compulsive repetition of uncanny, decontextualized slogans and archetypal anatema. On an edge between onanism and catharsis, they unnervingly stick to empty formulas and to the symbolic remains found among the twentieth-century totalitarian regimes and military catastrophes, among counter-cultures and the punk rock scene, without overlooking the mass propaganda strategies of the democratic individualism era. 

I Propaganda Ministern nascono nel 2015 in una delle zone culturalmente più depresse d’Europa. Minimalisti, ricorsivi, ossessivi, apocalittici, mirano a resuscitare ed emulare le vette raggiunte da alcuni dei più bizzarri artisti del XX secolo. Tra gli altri Captain Beefheart, Velvet Underground, Neu!, Ramones, Suicide, Devo, Joy Division, Flipper, Killing Joke, Deutsch Amerikanische Freundschaft, Shellac of North America. Ammorbati dal nichilismo ideologico del terzo millennio e pienamente assuefatti alla logica del consumo, manifestano le proprie frustrazioni nella ripetizione regressiva e compulsivo-maniacale di slogan decontestualizzati e anatemi archetipici. Tra onanismo e catarsi, aderiscono irrazionalmente a formule vuote e carcasse simboliche, che scovano, più o meno sepolte, tra i totalitarismi novecenteschi e le catastrofi belliche, nel punk-rock e nelle controculture, nelle strategie di persuasione di massa dell’era democratico-individualista.

_experimental 
_analog / digital / modular synthesizers
_field recording

Electronic, Folk and Punk. Originals and covers. Some of you may know Jocey and I from the 80's Fresno punk band, Capitol Punishment. With that foundation of punk pragmatism our quest is now to synthesize many different elements into something good and meaningful.

ALICE TAMBOURINE LOVER
Alice Albertazzi (voice / guitar / tambourine)
Gianfranco Romanelli (dobro resonator guitars)

Alice Tambourine Lover are a male/female duo mixing folk, blues, psychedelia and desert/rock elements. 

Alice Tambourine Lover were founded in 2011 as a side-project of psych band Alix, with five albums released among which Ground, recorded by David Lenci and Good One, recorded by Steve Albini. In 2012 they played All Tomorrow’s Parties Festival, headlined by Neurosis, Shellac, Red Fang, Uzeda.

They have released, all on Go Down Records, Naked Songs (2012), Star Rovers (2013) and Like A Rose (2015), which features two songs by Dandy Brown (Hermano, Orquesta Del Desierto) and John Garcia (Kyuss, Unida, Hermano).

Their dense, yet essential sound has also caught the attention of film directors Iris Elezi and Thomas Logoreci, who chose "Hungry Thieves" (Alice Tambourine Lover) and "The Sweet Smelling- Roads" (Alix) for the soundtrack of the film "Bota Cafè”

Modern, liberated, contemporary, of a broad spectrum, artistic,intellectual, post-organic, vegetative, stress-relieving,experimental, extraordinary. All these adjectives are often applied to
electronic music, with SONIC BELLIGERANZA records (http://sonicbelligeranza.com) things are different.

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