Name: Backstroke by Winter Severity Index
Duration: 4 min 10 s
Description: From Human Taxonomy. Mixed and recorded at Subsound Studio di Roma da Luciano Lamanna, mastered by Andrea Merlini, co-production by Valerio Lovecchio, Swiss Dark Nights, released by Manic Depression Records, 2016.

this has a killing joke vibe to it..nice grooves do you 2 have

Music written and performed by Mark Naylor

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Heaven Sells

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Overgave

From the new album 'Shoegaphex'.
https://glaring.bandcamp.com/album/shoegaphex
Tapes, vinyl and CDs coming in 2024

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Agony

From Human Taxonomy. Mixed and recorded at Subsound Studio di Roma da Luciano Lamanna, mastered by Andrea Merlini, co-production by Valerio Lovecchio, Swiss Dark Nights, released by Manic Depression Records, 2016. 

A Quiet Life

Backstroke

5 Am

A BLAZE COLOUR - cold as ever

Echelons

Winter Severity Index are: 
Simona Ferrucci - voice, guitar, bass guitar, synths.
Alessandra Romeo - synth and Keyboards.



http://soundcloud.com/winter-severity-index
http://www.youtube.com/user/WinterSeverityIndex
https://www.facebook.com/winterseverityindexWinter Severity Index is a cold wave/synth wave project headed by Simona Ferrucci, singer, arranger and multi-instrumentalist ( guitar, bass guitar, synths and drum machine programming). 
The project was born in 2009 as a traditional female band with drums, bass, synths and guitar. After the decision of two members of the band to leave, WSI continued as a duo with Simona on guitars and with Valentina Fanigliulo , a.k.a. Mushy, on synths. Then in 2013 she started the collaboration with Alessandra Romeo on synths, that is still continuing.

The music of Winter Severity Index is marked out by an original mixture of different influences, from synth wave of the Eighties to the guitar shoegaze sound of the Nineties, plus some hint of trip hop and vaporwave. During the years their sound evolved and enriched their features, preserving however a strong melodic trait and a melancholic dark mood.

From 2011 the project played in more than one hundred venues all over Europe, taking part to important festival such as the Wave Gothic Treffen in Leipzig, and performed in important locations for contemporary art, such as MAXXI Museum in Rome and Studio Hrdinů in Prague, in the Národní Galerie. 
The duo shared the stage with great artists of the international cold wave scene from The Chameleons UK, to Lene Lovich, from Tropic of Cancer to Lebanon Hanover and so on, receiving agreements from the international press and web magazines. The project participated also to important radio transmission for RAI in Italy and Radio 3 in Spain.

The third album by Winter Severity Index , called DISGELO, has benn released by Manic Depression/Icy Cold and Blood Rock Records in February 2022.


Discography (partial): 

2010 - Winter Severity Index , EP, self produced, CDr, distributed by AF Music.
2013 - Survival rate, EP, Blood Rock Records, vinyl.
2014 -  Slanting Ray, LP, Blood Rock Records + Manic Depression Records, double vinyl and CD.
2016 - Human Taxonomy, LP, Manic Depression Records, vinyl and CD.
2017 - Katabasis, LP compilation, Manic Depression Records, CD.
2018 - Slanting ray, second press, LP, Blood Rock Records + Manic Depression Records, double  vinyl and CD.
2022-DISGELO,Manic Depression Records, Icy Cold Records, Blood Rock Records, vinyl and CD. 

Backstroke

Winter Severity Index

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