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01. ZU & EUGENE S. ROBINSON - Waiter Waited
02. ZU & EUGENE S. ROBINSON - Taking the Give
03. ZU & EUGENE S. ROBINSON - Nightly a Sky
04. ZU & EUGENE S. ROBINSON - A Slick Not Spoken of Now. Or Again
05. ZU & EUGENE S. ROBINSON - In the Corner. Of the Corner Apartment
06. ZU & EUGENE S. ROBINSON - Looking for the Devil
07. ZU & EUGENE S. ROBINSON - The Relaxing
08. ZU & EUGENE S. ROBINSON - Take-Away Truck
09. ZU & EUGENE S. ROBINSON - Phone Call from a Well Dressed Man
10. ZU & EUGENE S. ROBINSON - Beg
11. ZU & EUGENE S. ROBINSON - Shame On Me
12. ZU & EUGENE S. ROBINSON - 6 O'Clock
13. ZU & EUGENE S. ROBINSON - Praylude
14. ZU & EUGENE S. ROBINSON - Land Lord
15. ZU & EUGENE S. ROBINSON - The Key to Good Dental Health
16. ZU & EUGENE S. ROBINSON - We're All Friends
17. ZU & EUGENE S. ROBINSON - Enterlude
18. ZU & EUGENE S. ROBINSON - Near to Sleep
19. ZU & EUGENE S. ROBINSON - Pinning the Body to the Soul
ARTIST
TITLE
The Left Hand Path
FORMAT
CD

LABEL
CATALOG #
TROST 133CD TROST 133CD
GENRE
RELEASE DATE
5/12/2015

Zu has always been a mercurial and ever-changing entity: unafraid of cross-genre explorations, eager to break down barriers between musical styles. Despite playing traditional instruments, major influences on Zu's music have always been sonic explorers like Coil, Throbbing Gristle, or early Neubauten. The sound of The Left Hand Path is the somewhat hidden side of Zu, though latent in all of its previous music. It's like digging out a box from the earth, containing everything the band had wished to highlight in previous works: ambient and droney landscapes; acoustic explorations in obscurity. The album starts programmatically with the sound of a shovel digging the earth -- a soundtrack for a descent into the underworld. It's moon musick. All of the members played electronics and Massimo focused mostly on guitars. The recordings were then sent to Eugene S. Robinson of Oxbow fame. Zu knew he was the right person to add vocals to it, and to transform the music again, into a sort of contemporary post-everything voodoo blues. Luca T. Mai: saxophone, electronics; Jacopo Battaglia: electronics; Massimo Pupillo: acoustic and electric guitars, bass guitar, electronics; Eugene S. Robinson: vocals.