The headline of the Billboard article said it all: “Like They Never Left.” The story, which ran in the Oct 29, 2011 issue, hailed the return of mega-platinum rock band BUSH, who had just self-released The Sea of Memories, their first album in 10 years and wasted no time returning to the top of the charts. In fact, they did it in grand style: the album’s lead single, “The Sound of Winter,” made rock radio history by becoming the first self-released song ever to hit No. 1 at Alternative Radio. “The Sound of Winter” also holds the distinction of being the reunited group’s first No. 1 single since 1999’s chart-topping hit, “The Chemicals Between Us.”

“It's the most brilliant start we could have imagined,” says Bush vocalist/guitarist Gavin Rossdale. “Having a No. 1 song at radio is a testament to not only the band, but the great team that surrounds us, the support at radio and of course, the tireless fans who give us daily oxygen – we’re thankful for it all.”

The band (Rossdale, guitarist Chris Traynor, drummer Robin Goodridge, and bassist Corey Britz) supported the album with a whirlwind media blitz and tour, which included performances on “Jimmy Kimmel Live” and “The Tonight Show with Jay Leno,” as well as concert specials for DirecTV’s “Guitar Center Sessions” and HDNet and a sold-out international tour. Tickets for some of the shows sold out in under a minute.

“It's really humbling because you never know what to expect,” says Rossdale. “I had no idea that it would go like this. I just wanted to make a great record.”

That record, The Sea of Memories, is steeped in the notion that one has to know where they came from to know where they’re going. “We are the sum of everything we’ve done -- right, wrong and in-between,” says Rossdale. “We’re all victims, and benefactors, of our past.” And Bush should know. The British-born band has had more success over the course of their first half-dozen years than most artists do in a lifetime. From Sixteen Stone to The Science of Things, they made some of the most successful rock albums in recent memory. The seminal outfit also forged a sound that would come to characterize an entire decade.

Today, Rossdale is mining the past for clues to the future, and has come up with an album that reflects both sides of that time quotient. On The Sea of Memories, he’s resurrected the band with drummer Robin Goodridge, guitarist Chris Traynor and bassist Corey Britz. “When making music, you have a choice to repeat what you’ve done or move on,” says Rossdale. “It would’ve been safe to just rework [1994’s debut album] Sixteen Stone over and over, but what kind of life would that be? When you’re driving down the road, you’re focused on what’s in front of you; you don’t really think to keep checking in your rear view mirror. I like the idea of art changing, developing and morphing.”

The Sea of Memories is drenched in Bush’s trademark intensity and driven by Rossdale’s emotive, bittersweet vocals, but it’s also infused with an immediacy that pushes the album into new, compelling directions. From their lead single, the atmospheric powerhouse “The Sound of Winter,” to the rapid-fire exuberance of “All My Life,” Bush reveals itself as a re-energized band. It’s a fresh mindset that’s at least partially influenced by events surrounding the making of this record.

Rossdale thought they had finished the CD late last year after recording with producer Bob Rock (Metallica, Aerosmith). But creative differences with its label led to an amicable parting of ways and the band left with album in hand and a choice of places to call home. While their team fielded offers from a plethora of labels, the band went back into Rossdale’s home Kingston Sound studios in LA and emerged with five new songs. “I didn’t want to get caught up in the process of signing a new deal,” says Rossdale. “I wanted to keep moving and creating. We had good ideas and wanted to flesh them out.”  

It was during this re-energized state that the band decided to take control of the reins and release the album themselves. Thus, The Sea of Memories is Bush’s first indie effort since the early 1990s. Rossdale’s own imprint, Zuma Rock Records, issued the album through an exclusive partnership with eOne Music, with earMusic handling the European release. “It’s been a relief and a breath of fresh air,” says Rossdale of making the leap from a major label, and being able to work under fewer creative constraints. “There’s a pressure that comes with being on a major. If you’re nurtured and looked after properly, it gives you the freedom and confidence to be creative, and from that comes good results. But it can also be disheartening. This feels good. This feels right.”

After the release of Golden State in 2001, Bush began unraveling from a grueling tour schedule and pressure brought on by their own success. Guitarist Nigel Pulsford finally begged off touring altogether, and in 2002, left the band to spend more time with his family. Bassist Dave Parsons soon followed. “There was no big bang,” says Rossdale of the break-up. “We did it in a very English way—quietly.”

Rossdale spent the next eight years pursuing new projects—from forming the band Institute in 2004 (which also included guitarist Traynor) to launching a solo career in 2008. Still, a Bush reunion was never that far off in his thoughts. “My delay in reuniting the band was really waiting for Nigel to come back, but he just didn’t want to tour anymore,” says Rossdale. “It was like ‘What am I going to do?’ As much as I wanted to wait, I also like to be in the studio and perform. So Institute and then my solo career were much more by default then by design. And I felt a bit off-kilter. It all felt less powerful, and just less all around. As long as I make music, I’d much rather make it under the name Bush than my own.” Says Robin Goodridge of the reunion: “I always knew Bush would make another record.  It was only a matter of time before the itch got too much for some of us. When you have something that great, it never leaves you.”

The Sea of Memories has a foot in Bush’s past and its future: a balance the band was determined to strike if they were to connect with loyal fans and reach new listeners. “I was a fan of Bush, so I wanted to do the music justice,” says Corey Britz, the newest member, though no stranger to the camp, as he’s played with Rossdale on various projects over the past few years. “Bush has always had a particular feel, and I hope to get as close to the mark as possible. I’m proud, nervous, and excited to be a part of a band that I have been a fan of for so many years.”

Guitarist Chris Traynor has played with Bush since the Golden State tour. He was also part of Rossdale’s ensuing band, Institute, and on the singer’s more recent solo projects. “I think every Bush record has been sonically and stylistically different from the last,” says Traynor. “The engine that drives the band, and makes it Bush, is Gavin's songwriting and singing. The ever-expanding vocabulary and musical territory of the band has to do with his overall vision as an artist. I really respect the fact that Gavin is driven to push forward and progress musically.”

The freedom Rossdale has found musically on The Sea of Memories also translates into his lyrics. Throughout the record, he offers up poetic, colorful and often ironic narratives on day-to-day living—sometimes biographical, sometimes not. “I think the record has that balance of living: the struggle, romance, loss, desire, aspirations,” says Rossdale. “Like the song ‘All Night Doctors,’ I enjoyed writing a dialogue, showing a snapshot of someone else’s life. For most people, happiness revolves around what they’ve achieved. But success is really about how they reconcile their aspirations with where they actually land in life. That balance has always intrigued me. I’ve found that depression, stress and worry is almost always rooted in the past and the future. But there’s a lot of riches to be found in the moment.”

Ever since 2005, Elia Billoni is the only officially sanctioned performer of the works of Dino Fumaretto.
From an artistic standpoint, however, Dino Fumaretto’s life begins even earlier, in 2002.

After taking his Critical Fiction theory to its furthest extent and founding Gratuitous Resistance in Rome (A form of resistance to the overrating of nothingness, of which Rome’s Pantheon is the supreme symbol), Fumaretto collects his writings in the pamphlets “Map of periods” and “Final map”.

From a musical standpoint, Fumaretto’s early poetic vein is cluttered through several self-produced albums laboriously collected in the compilation “Buchi (2002 – 2006)”. The homemade album “Pitocco” is a collection of rejected works that very probably shows the road to follow. However, this is still just a transitory moment.

This moment lasts until 2010 when, thanks to the Trovarobato label of Bologna, Dino Fumaretto’s first true album is released: “La vita è breve e spesso rimane sotto” is recorded in just one day by Andrea Rovacchi at Bunker Studio in Rubiera. The over 80 tour dates that followed took Dino Fumaretto’s music all around Italy and allowed him to win some important prizes.

In September 2010 he won the “Isabella d’Este” prize for the best song-theatre project.
In August 2011 he won the “Bigi Barbieri” plate for humorous songwriting. 

FOLCO ORSELLI, compositore e cantautore milanese, è un artista poliedrico ed eclettico. Nel 1995, con il duo “Caligola”, partecipa al Festival di Sanremo nella categoria ‘Giovani’ e, nel 1996, esce il suo primo album “Il sole che respira” (EMI). Segue una partecipazione come band di apertura del Golden Eye Tour di Tina Turner (1996) e del Voodoo Tour di Zucchero Fornaciari (1997). Nello stesso anno nasce il progetto musicale “Folco Orselli e La Compagnia dei Cani Scossi” con cui autoproduce l’album di inediti “La stirpe di Caino” (2002). Parallelamente crea il Caravanserraglio, autentico e originale movimento musicale formato da un gruppo di affiatati cantautori milanesi. Nel 2003 suona, interpretando il ruolo di se stesso, nel lungometraggio di Silvio Soldini “Agata e la tempesta” e canta “More” per i titoli di coda. Nel novembre 2004 esce il suo terzo album “La Spina”, prodotto da Lifegate e registrato alle Officine Meccaniche di Mauro Pagani, dove sarà registrato anche il suo quarto album “Milano Babilonia”. Nel corso dell’edizione di Musicultura 2008, il cantautore è Vincitore del Premio della Critica, Vincitore del Miglior Testo e Vincitore Assoluto votato dal pubblico con il brano “L’amore ci sorprende”. Folco Orselli è stato l’unico nella storia di Musicultura a vincere tre differenti e importanti premi contemporaneamente nel corso della stessa edizione. È del 2011 il suo ultimo lavoro “Generi di conforto”, disco di ballate registrato con un’orchestra d’archi. Nel 2013 crea insieme a Carlo Fava e Claudio Sanfilippo “Scuola Milanese”, con 13 appuntamenti tematici sulla città di Milano, a cui partecipano più di 50 ospiti. Attualmente Folco Orselli è in tour con lo spettacolo “Passati col rosso” con e di Gino & Michele, per la regia di Paolo Rossi.

FUZZ ORCHESTRA mixes heavy rock sounds with a fluxus of analog noises and a narrative layer build up by voice samples borrowed from old movies and documentaries. Lots of forgotten masterpieces lie in the vast sea of the cultural production from the past, and some of their voices are still true today.
Every FUZZ ORCHESTRA album uses these voices to tell his own tales and stories: “Fuzz Orchestra” (2007) was about some of Italy's most infamous moments of its contemporary history: fascism and late 60's/70's State terrorism; “Comunicato n°2” (2009) gives voice to those who tried to revolt against the inhuman capitalist world order. “Morire per la patria” (2012), which sees the entry of Paolo Mongardi (ZEUS! - Three One G Recordings, Jennifer Gentle - SubPop) on drums, describes and critizes different ways of “Dying for your own Homeland”, from the defense of the borders during the war to the selling of one's soul to gain power and material richness.
Our new record, “Uccideteli tutti, Dio riconoscerà i suoi”, tells tales of Revelation, Judgement and Choice; it takes you through different kind of Apocalypses: social ones, personal ones, profanes ones and sacred ones.
“Uccideteli tutti, Dio riconoscerà i suoi” also takes Fuzz Orchestra's music to a new level, putting together heavy rock patterns with contemporary music scores written by Enrico Gabrielli (Mike Patton's Mondo Cane, PJ Harvey and many more).

Genere Fisicamente Malato e Malinconico...
In poche parole....Società Per L'industria Del Freddo

La Società per l’Industria del Freddo è la
creatura di Corso ”Koursed” Mignani,
bassista e compositore di musiche e testi.
Da anni si è impegnato per questo
gruppo, un trio.
Ripartiti da più o meno zero da qualche
tempo, S.I.F. è un trio che prova a fare
musica con passione e sentimento.
Batteria, basso, chitarra.
Nessun virtuosismo.
Parliamo di qualcosa che può piacere
come no.
Un breve momento.
Malinconico. Rumoroso. Disperso.
Rabbioso. Onesto. Superstite.
Pensieri, ricordi, suoni.
Paolo, Corso, Roberto.

BACHI DA PIETRA(Italian for: Stone-bugs or Stone-worms) are Giovanni Succi (ex Madrigali Magri, La Morte) and Bruno Dorella (OvO, Ronin).  We make it live whit one guitar, vocals and a two-piece drums.

PATREON.COM/GIOVANNISUCCI Musician, songwriter, speaker, reader, almost human. Bachi Da Pietra, Madrigali Magri, La Morte, Spam & Sound Ensemble, Il Cartografo, L'Arte del Selfie nel Medioevo, Apocalypse Lounge.

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