Tribal Noise (2)

Post-Punk / New Wave band from Bologna, Italy. Official period of activity: 1983-1987. Line up: Marzio Manni (voice and guitar), Fabrizio “Felix” Frassineti (guitar), Cesare Ferioli (drums and voices) Federico Poggipollini (bass and voices) The band stands out for using Italian lyrics, for its dark and new wave sounds and the use of tribal drums. Joy Division, The Cure and Siouxsie and The Banshees are the closer influences. Tribal Noise played their first live concert in January 1984, at "Small Rock Club" in Pieve di Cento (Bologna, Italy). The concert was shared with other bands from Bologna, in a period of great musical ebullience for the city. After several other live appearances, Tribal Noise makes its first recording session inside the historical basements of Via San Vitale (which were the favourite location for rehearsals of important underground Bolognese bands such as Skiantos, Confusional Quartet and Windopen). This first demo tape was produced by Roberto Terzani (Windopen, Litfiba) and featured six songs: "Guerre dimenticate", "Macerie", "Buio", "Oltre", "Pensieri" and "Nuovo Risveglio". The musical roots are still the same, new wave themes blended with sounds that are mostly clean with specks of dark. During the same period concert dates see an increase and the band achieves an always wider fan-base. Tribal Noise fame has a spreading diffusion in Bologna and in the towns nearby. Its name is on every wall of every street of downtown. In 1985 Tribal Noise's sound is definitively set towards a more aggressive and distorted post-punk. The lyrics, always in Italian, have become less hermetic but more direct. A second tape is produced in the same period: "Tenebre veloci features four songs: "Città in Fiamme", "Tenebre Veloci su Bologna", "Resisti!" and "Inferno Senza Respiro". The same recordings are published inside a split tape together with songs from Dead Relatives (a dark-wave experimental band coming from Switzerland). The tape will be sold in bundle with "VM", an independent fanzine published in Milan and distributed all over Italy. Several live exhibitions cover a lot of historical places in Bologna, such as QBò and Casalone (now known as Covo Club). Other performances are at Aleph in Gabicce, Vidia in Cesena. Tribal Noise performs also as backing band for names such as Flesh for Lulu, Inca Babies and Billy Bragg. In 1986 Tribal Noise records its first EP for C.A.S. Records (Bologna), Nabat's label. The record features three songs: "Non importa ciò che vuoi", previously unreleased, together with "Tenebre Veloci su Bologna" and "Città in Fiamme". C.A.S. Records plans to publish the EP in vinyl with distribution all over Italy. During the same period, Tribal Noise performs as backing band for Nabat on several dates (i.e. at Traverse Club in Geneva - Switzerland). This EP will never see the light due to financial troubles of C.A.S. records and after dozens of concerts and two independently released tapes, the band breaks up in the first months of 1987.