RUINS 2019 rehearsal sessions

2019 - MAREA/TIDE soon to be officially reissued

... RUINS longtime lost art record will be soon re-released!

Music From Memory dutch label is going to re-release MAREA/TIDE at the very beginning
of  October 2019 ... and it's going to be a real major upgrade (although in retrospect)
for the band's discography.

MAREA/TIDE was originally released in the fall of 1984.
It was the first item of a project named "Sound and Image Research" conceived to
help a massive interactions and collaborations between different media and art.

It was (and still obviously is) a collection of individual tracks by Ciranna & Pizzin.

The first 1984 edition of the album was limited to 600 copies, 200 of which also 

featured an original screenprint of two different works by Luigi Viola,numbered and signed by the artist.

The 2019 tracklist reads:

01. Heavenly Tide(Pizzin)
02. Tides (Ciranna)
03. Petit Portrait (Ciranna)
04. Dedicated to you... (Pizzin)
05. Unidentified Lovers (Ciranna)
06. The Love We've Shared (Pizzin)
07. Night Tide (Pizzin)
08. Ground (Ciranna)
09. Future Tides (Ciranna)
10. Ancient Tide (Pizzin)
11. Crown Of Thorns (Pizzin)
12. I love you (Ciranna)
13. Handmade Paradise (Pizzin)
14. Gloomy Points (Ciranna)
15. Tomorrow (Pizzin)
16. Standing Still (Pizzin)

No original screen print available on this new re-release, but as a bonus
there will be featured an extra 7" including 4 unreleased tracks recorded
exactly during the same sessions.

01. Suspension (Pizzin)
02. Leap (4 years later) (Pizzin)
03. Vital sign (Pizzin)
04. Purple Tide (Ciranna)

Produced by Piergiuseppe Ciranna & Alessandro Pizzin

for more info please write
ruinsit at gmail dot com

Past ... Present ... Tense is available NOW @ Bandcamp

HERE

A NEW RUINS (digital) EP SOON AVAILABLE on Bandcamp !!!

... well ...  NOW it can be told!

A brand new 6-songs-EP will be available soon @ RUINS Bandcamp page.

It is called "Past ... Present ... Tense" and it will feature some old songs completely re-arranged and re-recorded together with some brand new things.

All included stuff has been recorded between 2014 and 2016 and actually it's just a small portion of the whole new repertoire on which RUINS were working at the time.

Some songs already completed in the same recording and mixing sessions have been momentarily shelved to be paired with the new stuff RUINS are working on these days (more news on about to come!).

Anyway ... here's the EP complete tracklist & info:

1. Help Me (Ciranna) 4:13
2. Elegant Shout (Ciranna/Pizzin) 4:08
3. Fire (Ciranna/Pizzin) 5:33
4. Restless House (Ciranna/Pizzin) 3:52
5. Daily and Blue (Ciranna/Pizzin) 5:32
6. KAR (Ciranna/Pizzin/Zennaro) 5:08

RUINS are Piergiuseppe Ciranna and Alessandro Pizzin

Special guest: Massimo Zennaro

Produced by Piergiuseppe Ciranna & Alessandro Pizzin

All instruments played by Ciranna/Pizzin/Zennaro
Orchestral manœuvres on KAR by Massimo Zennaro
Vocals and lyrics by Piergiuseppe Ciranna

Recorded between 2014 and 2016 at “AGW Studio ” and “Zen Soundlab“

Mixed in 2016 by Piergiuseppe Ciranna and Massimo Zennaro

Cover by Alessandro Pizzin
Original photo by Paola Tura

RUINS original logo by Alessandro Rigato

Let's hope you'll like Italian Food !!!

for more info please write
ruinsit at gmail dot com

RUINS & Dj ZAKIA on "Questing" (on NTS Radio)

Lovely ZAKIA mentioned RUINS (around 1:54:00) kindly saying 

"... Killer Killer tune that is called "Alone“ by RUINS that’s off a record called "Occasional visits“ originally recorded in 1981 (actually 1984 n.d.r) ... italian business and reissued by Stroom TV … a killer killer whole record as I said …"

THANKS A LOT !!!

https://www.nts.live/shows/questing-w-zakia/episodes/questing-w-zakia-23rd-march-2019

or

https://www.mixcloud.com/NTSRadio/questing-w-zakia-23rd-march-2019/

RUINS & Dj Ray on "Inner realm" (on NTS Radio)

"Sexual Desire" @ about 18:00

https://www.mixcloud.com/NTSRadio/inner-realm-w-dj-ray-29th-march-2019/

BACK IN THE STUDIO ...

... Yesterday RUINS was back @ AGW Home Studio for a new recording session, this time hosting a very special guest (& longtime musical comrade) like Franco Moruzzi on drums.

The studio worksheet @ AGW was reading:

Drums parts for song n.1: "I gotta"

Drums parts for song n.2: "Night"

Actually there are still some other songs in the pipeline waiting to be completed with new vocals and keyboards arrangements as well as with the definitive drum parts ... like "Bit by Bit", "I'm scared", "Pale idea" and "Spiritual man".

But at last we can officialy report that "Addicted" and "Out of this mess" are finished and waiting for the pre-mastering sessions.

'Til later ...

RUINS - Intervista 2019 con Gigi Fincato

RUINS - Hot Leg (1983)

https://www.facebook.com/Ruins2016/videos/405136490271000/

... available on 391 Vol.6 - Veneto (2018) CD

Ruins - Everybody Knows Me

... meanwhile in 2010 @ Boomkat

An amazing collection of advanced, early '80s Italian electro-wave from Minimal Wave. Formed in Mestre 1978, the duo of Piergiuseppe Ciranna and Alessandro Pizzin created a beautifully expressive body of work defined by crisp, punchy production and a feel for proper minimalist funk. 'Pure Desire' could almost pass for some Herbie Hancock experiment, while 'Fire' sidesteps Italo's cheesier cliches with dynamic electro spurts and 'Nite Song' comes offlike Bowie playing with ACR. Their anti-mainstream stance allows them to really go out on a limb with the avant-garde tones and texture of 'Electronic Journey', but they're at their best producing deadly electro-jazz pop songs like 'Sexual Desire' and 'Good Name', or elegant dancefloor heaters like 'Your Lover' or the Frankie-esque 'It's Not Too Grand'. We're really, really feeling this one. TIPPED for fans of Alexander Robotnick or Chrisma!

An old premiere from November 2018 (thanks to If-Only)

With a keen focus on the often misunderstood output of 1980s Italy, latest treasure to be excavated from the Mothball Record casket of gems is a full-length album by pioneering artists of the Italian New Wave, Ruins. Starting out in late ’70s Venice, Ruins were interdisciplinary artists, combining music, painting and film and collaborating with painters, photographers and film-makers across their creative endeavours. Sadly, much lot of what they produced has been lost over time, but seeing light for the first time since being self-released on cassette in 1983, fifteen-tracker Side Roads is the latest offering to emerge from the Mothball production line.

Re-titled as New Record, the band channel something alluring but also uncanny and unnerving on the album. Take closing cut ‘Tomorrow’, where pitter-patter drum patterns reminiscent of footsteps paint the picture of a stroll beneath a rainforest canopy. Processed birdsong squawks through the mix and the exploratory soundscape is initially hard to place. Conjuring a synthetic tropical scene, it’s a timeless discovery from the past’s future.

Ambient Wacky & Weird Wave & Synth (according to Crevette Records)

Recent years have seen sporadic releases from Ruins, a long-serving combo who can rightly claim to be Italian new wave's most celebrated act. Stroom has decided against asking the band for new material; instead, they've rifled through Ruins' archives and put together this fine compilation of rare and unheard material recorded between 1981 and '84.

https://www.crevetterecords.be

RUINS promotional stuff 1984

(original photo by Stefano Padovan)

RUINS "Occasional visits" - Time to dance differently ...

... more from Piccadilly Records (uk)

Stroom's valentine special for 2019 sees the label excavate some lovely wave from Venice, Italy (1981-1984).
Though the city may be best known for gondolas, the biennale and romantic getaways, it seems those canals spawned some vital contributions to Italy's vibrant underground pop scene in the 80s, not least the DIY sounds of Ruins.
The collaborative project of Alessandro Pizzin and Piergiuseppe Ciranna, Ruins took inspiration from British post punk, US electro, the robots from Düsseldorf and the sleek new wave topping the international charts at the time.
Opener "Elegant Shout" fuses crunchy electronics and grooving bass and guitar to create a bedroom pop beauty which could easily have made it onto MFM's "Uneven Paths" comp.
"Alone" is a punchier affair, more obviously directed at the leftfield dancefloors with insistent synths and the kind of garbled chorus you get from no-wave.
Cut a rug in your baggiest trousers with the early-Spandeau stylings of "You're Like A Cigarette", then go wild with the drunk in the jazz club weirdo post-punk of "Skeleton In Love".
The flipside keeps the hits coming, be it the slow and sleazy "Fit Of Nerves", tropical pop bangers "Boys & Girls" and "Everybody Knows Me" or the whacked out white funk of "It's Not Too Grand".
Long live Stroom and their endless knowledge of alternative wave greats.

Patrick says: Skinny ties, skew-wiff sounds and the weirdest, white funk around - sounds good to me. Sitting at the groovier end of the post punk/synth pop spectrum, "Occasional Visits" is a wavey masterpiece from Italy's 80s underground. 
Time to dance differently...

RUINS "New record" (2018) by Mothball Record

Hailing from Venice, Ruins were pioneering artists of the Italian new wave scene in the late 70's: it was an explosion of new and exciting art, music and film.

Taken from the original master tapes and selected by Ruins themselves!

RUINS "Occasional visits" short review @ junorecords

"Recent years have seen sporadic releases from Ruins, a long-serving combo who can rightly claim to be Italian new wave's most celebrated act. Stroom has decided against asking the band for new material; instead, they've rifled through Ruins' archives and put together this fine compilation of rare and unheard material recorded between 1981 and '84. There's much to admire, from the breezy pop shuffle of "Alone" and Cure-influenced, bass-propelled oddness of "Skeleton In Love", to the sparkling synth-pop brilliance of high-tempo number "Boys & Girls" and the punk-funk/dub disco-influenced throb of killer closing cut "It's Not Too Grand".

OCCASIONAL VISITS (2019) by STROOM

Alessandro: “No one can tell for sure that a sound of love actually exists, but love and any other emotion can be reverberated by some musical colors always capable to make emotions resounding here and there during a song, ten songs, a thousand ones...”

The second to last decade of the 20th century was flourishing in its full glory with uncompromising decisions and emergence of new genres to experiment with. Several years before the boom of the 80s is when Alessandro Pizzin got involved with the creation of RUINS and was later joined by Piergiuseppe Ciranna in the fluctuating group constitution. After several alterations in the group it didn’t take long until their duo came together in an attempt to make the first wave twist towards experimenting with electronic sounds. In the frame of the birthtime of many new branches of musical subdivision, the artists fused their intentions and virtuosity to base the centerpiece of their prospective electro sound.

Piergiuseppe: “A characteristic of our music has always been that of moving transversely: from intense emotions to whimsical visions”

In a musical conversation between Piergiuseppe and Alessandro, the productions resulted in a relentless manifestation of a variety of contrasting musical colors. Springing from beneath sinister notes and arpeggiating chords to groundless joy and quirky noises. All of it encompassing the perpetual movement and shift of feelings and positions. Obscurity reflecting the anecdotal nature of life.

Alessandro: “I think that we both were keen on listening to all kinds of music, therefore our sound was the result of all these different listenings and concepts blended with new technology products and equipments we were used to experiment with”

The ranging melodic palette within the compositions, is riddled with external influences manifested in the web of atmospheric scales. Mirroring a plethora of emotions, even though produced quite the while ago, this collection of compositions will undeniably have something to resonate with and object to. Conflicting love, uninhibited anger, driving passion, young maximalism, childlike cynicism. The joy of human existence is inescapably accompanied by utter suffering, taking turns between each other.

Piergiuseppe: “Artistic works, and even songs, should be by definition ineffable, giving suggestions that everyone must then frame and interpret even according to their own experience…”

The path into the light seems dark, the road forward seems to go back. The greatest love seems indifferent, the greatest wisdom seems childish. Each is up to their own interpretation of the songs assembled in this Valentine’s Day speciality. The contradictions perfectly balancing each other out will not leave anyone indifferent. After all, there would be no love without hate.  

credits

releases February 14, 2019

All songs produced and arranged
by Piergiuseppe Ciranna & Alessandro Pizzin

Artwork by Nana Esi
Mastered by Mathieu Savenay
Selection by Ziggy Devriendt

Recorded and mixed at Anna Rich Studios, Venice

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