Esseforte è un progetto dal variegato background musicale, in cui le rime e la voce del rapper Matteo Bosi aka Boso incontrano le trame sonore di tre musicisti che con il rap poco o nulla hanno a che fare sulla carta, avendo intensamente bazzicato negli ultimi due decenni il circuito rock indipendente con formazioni noise (Butcher Mind Collapse), post-punk (Lebowski), grunge (Cora), indie (Il Tipo Di Jesi) e più recentemente coinvolti in progetti di impronta elettronica (Barabba, ITDJ), ovvero Riccardo Franconi, (qui in veste di producer), Tommaso Sampaolesi e Jonathan Iencinella (chitarristi, voci aggiunte e co-autori dei testi).

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Martina Berther is a Swiss bass player and composer based in Zurich. Her sound spectrum ranges from pop to experimental music. She tours internationally both solo and with her bands Ester Poly and AUL and as a sidewoman with musicians like Sophie Hunger. She also writes music for films, theatre and installations and works as a curator. She has received numerous awards for her work, including the Swiss Music Prize 2020

Use Knife is the exciting result of the raw synergy between Iraqi vocalist and percussionist Saif Al-Qaissy—who fled war-torn Iraq—and Belgian musicians Kwinten Mordijck and Stef Heeren, known for their passion for analog synths and organic wind instrumentation. 

The band tell a necessary tale of freedom, responsibility and the gulf between the Eastern and Western mindset. Even the instrumentation itself reflects this constant friction; intuitively muddling distorted industrial textures and jerky EBM pulses with brittle Iraqi rhythms and tonalities, Use Knife devise their own distinct harmony against the dissonant global backdrop. 

Debut album 'The Shedding of Skin' (2022) received critical acclaim by The Quietus, Mixmag and Knack Focus, a.o.. They played at festivals such as Le Guess Who?, Sonic City, Videodroom, Grauzone, Botanique, Worm, Wrong Fest, Roadburn, Suoni Per Il Populo, Wave-Gotik-Treffen and We Are Open a.o.

Additionally, ‘Peace Carnival’ was released on Morphine Records —a 10” remix EP featuring tracks from the debut album reinterpreted by Muqata’a مقاطعة, Zoë Mc Pherson, and Rabih Beaini.

Their new album ‘État Coupable’ (March 2025) is mixed by Jerusalem in My Heart's Radwan Ghazi Moumneh, who also created the contrasting ambient 2nd part of the title track, while New York based engineer Heba Kadry (Ryuichi Sakamoto, Nicolás Jaar) handles the mastering. Nihiloxica’s drummer Spooky-J, also laid down a post punk beat on first single ‘Freedom, Asshole’.

Youniss Ahamad crafted Use Knife’s distinct visual language, evoking rawness through direct and distorted imagery, and developed scenography and visuals that truly enhance their live show, creating “an all-embracing vortex that allows those experiencing it to plunge, headfirst, into a hypnotic state that veers between a dreamlike trance and a sensual workout.” (The Quietus)

Their radio show ‘Feeding The Gentry’ airs monthly on Palestinian Radio Alhara.

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