CIRCOLO VIZIOSO – “CHOPPY”
A SPILL EXCLUSIVE VIDEO PREMIERE
As we welcome in 2024, today we take the opportunity to kick-start the new year with some new releases. Invigorating and high-paced, experimental Berlin-based art-punk-rock duo Circolo Vizioso introduce their forthcoming sophomore album with the first single “Choppy”. Like many artistic creations throughout the ages, this composition was inspired in the midst of bleak situation surrounding a love story turned sour.
From Sonic Youth, The Black Angels to Fugazi and Nirvana, this is a band who wears their inspirations on their sleeves sleeves, blending these in a fascinating way. Raw and visceral, Circolo Vizioso makes for a highly recommended listen, presenting groundbreaking music with a signature sound. This is a band to watch in 2024 with their Verrueckt album set for release on March 1.
Creating music mainly with electric violin, guitar and drums, only three years have passed since the band released their debut 5-track Isolation EP. Their unique brand of high-intensity, lyric-driven punk is sure to make for a pleasing live experience for folks who have the opportunity to catch them on tour.
Circolo Vizioso is made up of Tony Scafidi (guitar, bass, drum, hi-hat, vocals) and Paul Geigerzaehler (violin, snare drum, vocals). The band plays abrasive, groovy punk music that is influenced, on the one hand, by the sound of 1990s New York, Chicago and Washington embodied in such bands as Fugazi, Blonde Redhead and Sonic Youth, and by the sound of early 80’s and 90’s Eastern German and Eastern European punk bands like Dezerter, Sandow and Schleimkeim on the other.
“I’d had a severe break up and the song went out as a sort of persistent beat, prolonging an apex point that hardly makes it out of the main riff, opening up only at the very yet repeating it self only faster,” says Tony Scafidi.
“Metaphorically, it’s kind of like when a couple try to sort things out and get back together, but then fail due to continued use of old commuication tools for a completely new situation they can no longer manage. At the time, I was also listening to The Black Angels a lot and having sleeping problems. There’s a weird cocktail here.”
Formed in March 2020 on a balcony in Friedrichshain, Berlin during the first Covid-19 lock-down, Circolo Vizioso was born as an attempt to keep art and music alive and to provide support to their neighbours during a time when no concerts were happening and no cinemas, museums or galleries were open.
In spirit, Circolo Vizioso is a last ditch effort to resist the isolation and the lack of social and human contact, as well as the hunger for music and art during this unusual time.
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About the upcoming ‘Verrueckt” album, Paul Geigerzaehler explains, “We wanted an album that could express anger, frustration and disaffection against an unfair world and all the discomfort entwined with that and we wanted to do it with direct and bare lyrics, abrasive violin lines, fat distorted guitar solos, and big fuzzy riffs. Yet we wanted people to dance to all this batshit crazy world in a sort of self-exorcising dance, where one can head to bed with the feeling that they have at least sweat their daily demons out for the night.”
As of January 5, “Choppy” will be available everywhere digitally, including Apple Music, Spotify and Bandcamp. The full Verrueckt album, which will be released on March 1, is already available for pre-order directly from the artist via Bandcamp.
Credits
Music and Lyrics by Paul Geigerzaehler and Tony Scafidi
Tony Scafidi – guitar, bass, drum, hi-hat, vocals
Paul Geigerzaehler – violin, snare drum, vocals
Audrey Quillons – backing vocals on ‘Walls’ and ‘Verruecht’
Produced by Paul Geigerzaehler and Tony Scafidi
Sound Engineer – Smail Shock Production at B Studio in Berlin
Mixed and Mastered by Sacha Tilotta in Catania, Italy
While you are also here, please also enjoy the band’s debut album:
Circolo Vizioso
[Single]
(Independent)
Release Date: January 5, 2024
Tour Dates (More Info)
December 12 – Leipzig Ost – Kopfsalat (20:00)
December 23 – Dresden – Luther 33 (19:00)
December 27 – Nucknica/Nucknitz – Barakka (21:00)
December 29 – Görlitz – Basta (20:00)
January 6, 2024 – Berlin Prenzlauer Berg – KvU (20:00)
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Photo Credits: Giordano Pennisi
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