J'Accuse..!

People should have a look here... especially those more keen with the alternative acts. The sound here is interesting.

Ghost Rider wrote: They have released a self-produced demo, so I suppose they are still unsigned.

Let's see if we can contact them on this issue, there's a reference to 'Mellow Records' on their MySpace page, but it's unclear to me whether that is a 'fake' used for the demo, or whether the release is a commerical product. I will drop them a message.

Back to the music: this is not just experimental. The tracks on MySpace include psychedelic and jazz rock influences at the same time. The opening of Riccorre l'abbandono made me thing of Porcupine Tree and some more experimental Kraut, but after a minute or so I though I was listening to Jaco Pastorius.
Riccorre l'abbandono pt. 2 again brings back to mind the heavier Porcupine work, but also heavier guitarwork in the vein of Adrian Belew's King Crimson.
The third track I heard, and the only one with vocals, is far more experimental. The vocals remind me of John Lydon (PIL, former Sex Pistols), but with slightly different backing music. Very noisy, and still somehow well structured - heavy and dark. I want to hear more of this band for sure!



Edited by Angelo - November 26 2007 at 05:37

Moved for evaluation by Genre teams....

Edited by Atkingani - November 26 2007 at 13:44

We are seeing more of these bands that tag themselves Alternative / Progressive / Experimental and I'm beginning to get quite hooked on them. I'll see what the rest of Xover (ie Micky) thinks of J'Accuse.

...but they are signed... so we can put them on the evaluation chart

Well, the good news is that we in Xover like Jack Hughes.

Thanks for letting us know Dean. I'll check with them on status in a week or 4.

Sasha from J'Accuse wrote: So... The album is ready to be released. At the end of january for sure! The album, produced by mellow records, will be distribuited by BTF here in Italy (http://www.btf.it for order online) and PickupRecords in all Europe. You can write at Mellow Records to have more infos and comment.

Stef wrote: I've seen this band last year here in my city, Imola (Italy). They're very impressive! If you like Mars Volta and other modern progressive band with alternative influeces....this i thik is the only Italian band that rappresent this kind of style at the moment.   I'll waiting for their album release.

darqdean wrote:   Also try Abash - http://www.progarchives.com/forum/forum_posts.asp?TID=44603&KW=&PID=2722127#2722127   a modern (but not Alternative) Italian band that has impressed me recently is LaYra - http://www.progarchives.com/forum/forum_posts.asp?TID=44745&KW=&PID=2725680#2725680   and another of Andrea's picks that I've just noticed that are quite interesting: Sirena - http://www.progarchives.com/forum/forum_posts.asp?TID=45084&KW=&PID=2736693#2736693