ZIPPO - The Road To Knowledge
Inspired by Mexican chemical mind trips...
The Road to Knowledge, the last release by the Italian band Zippo.
The five guys in the band Zippo come from the coastal town of Pescara in Central Italy. Zippo is another outstanding band from my country’s rock panorama.
This 2009 release is a beautiful album in which stoner, psychedelic rock and heavy/doom atmospheres are blended together with prog touches to build up a peculiar style. Zippo guys are able to transfer this sound perfectly in live sessions as well, as I happened to experience about two months ago.
The album title derives from the name of a famous book by Mexican writer, Carlos Castaneda, The Teachings of Don Juan, which tells us about the author’s meeting and experience with a Yaqui Indian sorcerer. Accounts of mind altering herbal concoctions, spirits, invocations of gods and encounter with death became inspirations for Zippo’s music.
On the Zippo’s official blog page you may find reviews from magazines all over Europe, as Zippo toured extensively outside Italy (and they were actually on tour in Denmark when their native area was struck by a terrible earthquake last March, when hundreds of people died).
Mari
http://sludgeswamp.blogspot.com
