Rebirth

«Can songwriting be combine with a dilated, rarefied and highly experimental sound?

The Southern Italian band Violent Scenes, with a decade-long track record, have

succeeded. “Rebirth” is the new EP that marks the band’s stylistic rebirth, starting

from post-rock and psychedelic and landing on experimental rock through ambient-

glitch electronic.» - Time Zones XXXVII

On January 26th, the new EP “Rebirth” was released and the band started playing

live again. A post-pandemic rebirth intrinsic to Nature. In April 2023 VS presented

“Rebirth” in the United States with 17 shows from New York to San Francisco.

On June 2023 the new single “Litith” was released with a short film directed by

Francesco Dongiovanni, premiered on Rumore: bit.ly/vslilithrumore

BIO

Violent Scenes is the New Greek Theater. Mindful of Euripides and Godard’s lesson,

it despises the TV theatrical shows and declares that Tragedy is not violent.

Violent Scenes is an attempt at being human.

In five years VS staged several works: an album, an EP, the theatrical show

“Abandons” with the apulian company Teatro delle Rane, the psych reading of

“Dialogues with Leucò” by Cesare Pavese and “Invisible Cities” by Italo Calvino, the

live painting “Sushumna” with the sicilian visual artist Silvia Ruggeri, a few sound

performances of Godard, Lynch’s and anime films and more than a hundred concerts

in Italy, opening for Uzeda, Mokadelic, Christian Löffler, Aki Onda, Control Unit,

SOYSV, Spiritual Front and many others.

In 2019 “Grim July”, the first music video from “Stimmung” (Angapp, 2019), directed

by Antonio Stea, won the Cineconcerto Music Film Festival in Montecarotto (AN,

Italy). The Jury is chaired by Corrado Nuccini, member of the italian post-rock band

Giardini di Mirò.

The second music video, “Nope Face”, also directed by Antonio Stea, won a special

mention for best experimental film at the Tokyo International Short Film Festival in

2020 and the first prize for best music video at Paris Film Art in 2021.

In 2022 “Unit: 02”, from “Rebirth” (SAC Recordings, 2022), directed by Antonio Stea,

won the first prize for best music video at Bracciano International Film Exhibition in

Bracciano (RM).

In 2022 the band is part of the XXXVII edition of Time Zones, where they perform live

with Christian Löffler. Here is an excerpt from the performance, filmed on VHS-C by

Antonio Stea.

LINE UP

Both in the composition phase and live, the members trade roles and instruments as

needed. Usually this is the default pattern:

Giorgio Cuscito _voice, lyrics, electric bass

Gianfranco Maselli _electric guitar, electric bass

Gianvito Novielli _electric guitar, electronics

Antonio Iacovazzi _percussions, electronics