OTTONE PESANTE - SCROLLS OF WAR

 

Scrolls of war is the first chapter of a trilogy about the history of brass.

 

There was a moment in history, thousands of years ago, when droughts, famines, earthquakes, floods and epidemics happened at the same time, in a very quick time frame. Some peoples were suddenly, desperately forced to emigrate to survive and these movements were cause of bloody and violent wars. Ancients sancti fied those wars in the name of a god that would have chosen them and would guide them to

the final victory. This god gave them the orders about how to face the final battle: the rules of war. Priests were those in charge to announce the army movements with the sound of their trumpets and their horns…

 

Ottone Pesante face an imaginary trip among history, mythology, archeology with the purpose to analyse and exorcise the constant historical relationship of brass instruments and war, taking inspiration from a document dated I century AC found in Qumran, Palestine, at the end of the ’40s of 20th century: The Scrolls of War.

This musical trip has been intertwined with actuality in a dramatic manner showing how History often returns and showing how much progress human kind must do along the evolution road.

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Hoping for a total ending of violence:

let trumpets play only for Music!

OTTONE PESANTE IS AN INSTRUMENTAL, EXPERIMENTAL TRIO WITH THE FOLLOWING LINEUP: TROMBONE, TRUMPET AND DRUMS.

FROM THEIR EARLY WORKS, THEY PRODUCED AN INIMITABLE AND HIGHLY ORIGINAL SOUND CHARACTERIZED BY THE EXTENSIVE AND INCREASING USE OF ELECTRONICS ON THE BRASS INSTRUMENTS AND EQUALLY RECOGNIZABLE DRUMMING WITH STRONG ROOTS IN BOTH GRINDCORE AND RHYTHMIC/TIMBRAL EXPLORATION. THE RESULT IS VARIED, RICH AND UNIQUE SOUND AIMED AT BREAKING MANY GENRE BOUNDARIES, ALLOWING THEM TO BE APPRECIATED BY FANS OF BRASS BANDS AND JAZZ, AS WELL AS IN THE EXPERIMENTAL, AVANT-GARDE SCENE AND EVEN AMONG METAL AND EXPERIMENTAL ROCK ENTHUSIASTS. 

THIS HAS LED THEM TO AN INTENSE LIVE ACTIVITY THROUGHOUT EUROPE, INCLUDING PARTICIPATION IN IMPORTANT FESTIVALS SUCH AS FEKETE ZAJ HU (2021), BRUTAL ASSAULT CZ (2022) AND INFERNO NO (2023). THEY HAVE RELEASED 3 STUDIO ALBUMS, 2 EPS AND A SPLIT AND HAVE COLLABORATED WITH NOTABLE ARTISTS SUCH AS TRAVIS RYAN (CATTLE DECAPITATION), SARA BIANCHIN (MESSA) AND CALIBRO 35.