Cosa? (Experimental Works)

Founded by Alessandro Pizzin, aka Alieno deBootes, in 1978, Ruins were active in the Venetian underground from the late 1970s. By late 1979, the group had become mainly a duo with Piergiuseppe Ciranna and Alessandro Pizzin, combining different backgrounds through a shared vision.

Alongside more conventional songs, they recorded a vast avant-garde body of work shaped by urgency, research and extreme experimentation. Their sound moves between reflective passages and noisy, bizarre, hard-to-define episodes. Open to multimedia, they also created sound-video installations and recorded one of the first art albums, Marea, in 1984.

A key release for collectors of the Unconventional Residents series, especially if you hear echoes of what the Residents were making at the same time.

Tracklist:
1. Manual
2. Damaged Dance
3. Arthur's Dance
4. Tracks To Survive
5. Rooms Of Power
6. Young Rhythm Toys
7. Girls
8. Recovering
9. Thickening Hours
10. Silk
11. Electronic Revolution
12. Cosa
13. Unsteadiness
14. Space Six
15. Hard
16. Laughing
17. I Am Not Going Anywhere
18. Short Cut To Stage
19. Notre Correspondance
20. Playing An Old Song
21. Little Dreams
22. Joe Louis
23. Involved
24. Successful Death
25. Soft Conclusion
26. Final Song