Sulla Lingua is the world’s only Australian-Italian electroacoustic noise rock trio, featuring Anthony Pateras (tētēma/PIVIXKI) on electronics, Stefano Pilia (Zu, Rokia Traoré, Massimo Volume) on guitar and Riccardo La Foresta on drums and his own creation, the Drummophone.
Sulla Lingua in Italian means ‘on the tongue’ or ‘on language’, which summarises the band’s high/lo aesthetics – they could be referring to Roland Barthes or saluting Gene Simmons, but they still haven’t decided. Both seem fitting to their trance-y harmonics and heavy grooves mixed with psychoacoustic electronics and cinematic textures.
Their debut album ON recalls the radical, contradictory first statements of music nerds’ past. It proposes invention, challenging yet weirdly catchy, as an energised salve for messed-up times. It recalls slowly moshing at a musique concrète diffusion, or perhaps being lost deep in philosophical thought at some kind of sludge rock fest.
Sulla Lingua will be prefaced with a solo piano performance by composer Anthony Pateras.
Anthony Pateras is a composer, pianist and electronic musician. He works across many contexts including modern classical, acousmatic diffusion, film soundtrack, free improvisation, experimental rock, and various mutations of electronica.
Alongside performing hundreds of concerts worldwide himself, Pateras has been commissioned by leading organisations and performers including INA-GRM, Südwestrundfunk Baden-Baden, Australian Chamber Orchestra, ensemble]h[iatus, Lampo, Kitchen Orchestra, ONCEIM, Ensemble Dedalus, Third Coast Percussion and the Astra Chamber Music Society, among many others.
Pateras has over 50 releases on labels including Tzadik, Editions Mego, Ipecac, Hallow Ground, Another Timbre, Futura Resistenza, Shelter Press and his own Immediata text/music project. He has also guested on albums by Fennesz, Oren Ambarchi and Sunn O))), and provided prepared piano for the film Wolf Creek, alongside his own long history of film work.
Working between long-form hallucination and hyper-vertical intensity, Pateras’ improvised piano performances have been described as "remarkable" by the LA Times, "stupendous" by The Wire and "awe-inspiring" by The Age.
Anthony Pateras is assisted by the Australian Government through Creative Australia.