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)