Zio Crocifisso is a musical project founded 2021 by Dario Magri (Yokoano, Sho), Paolo “SKE” Botta (Yūgen, SKE, Not a Good Sign) and Matteo Serenelli (The Appetizers), a trio with a multifaceted sound that has found fertile ground in the instrumental avant-prog realm, with influences ranging from King Crimson, Tool, Melvins, Sleepytime Gorilla Museum, Zu and Poil.

The band made their debut in 2024 with the digital EP “Campana di Legno” and, after enrolling bassist Fabio Malizia (Orbe), thanks to a cross-genre, sinister and musically dynamic proposal, played live in both typical rock and cinema/animation contexts. In 2025 new material was ultimately recorded and, combined with the tracks of the previous EP, contributed to the final realization of “Campana di Legno + Trappola per Topi”: the stylistic variety was then further increased, in a record that easily shifts from ethereal and dreamlike moments to math-rock and heavy-prog; in the new tracks were also involved guest singers and musicians who added more experimental and ambient moments to an already rich programme, as well as vocal parts with lyrics inspired by Giovanni Verga’s novel “I Malavoglia”.

And it is precisely to that same book that the Zio Crocifisso owe their name, thanks to a character linked to the well-known expression “there is none so deaf as he who will not hear”; this, in addition to the literary current – the so-called Verismo – which Verga’s novel belongs to, constitute the ‘conceptual foundations’ behind a project that, with its stylistic eclecticism, attempts to photograph the chaotic contemporaneity that surrounds us.

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