Ciccio & 2mo are Francesco Pastacaldi on drums and Olivier Demeaux on machines. With spangled confections of fizzy and driving percussion, multilingual vocals and pitch-bent electronics, they explore the cracks between classic French psych and industrial, like Vox Populi or Geins’t Naït, and its contemporary descendents, like the Editions Gravats label, with a smart balance of rhythmic tension and warm, warped electronics puckered with French and Italian vocals. Their album and 12-inch on The Trilogy Tapes is packed with subtly urgent groovers and more sultry tracks for smoky salons and low-lit dive bars. Grandiose and paradoxical, Ciccio & 2mo embrace complex musical signifiers with ease.
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