Posted in Whathaveyou on July 26th, 2019 by JJ Koczan
And so the fuzz of the people return to the people. Rome’s Fvzz Popvli are set to head out for a month-long string of dates in support of their 2018 album, Magna Fvzz (review here). They also toured Europe last Fall, right around the time of the album release, and though they’ve only been around a couple of years, have done numerous Euro stints behind their two records. This time around, they’ll play Berlin Swamp Fest in Germany as well as Desert Rock Fest and Heavy Psych Sounds Fest in their hometown after the tour has wrapped, where they’ll join Black Rainbows and Giobia, whose Bazu guests on the 12-minute space rocker title-track of Fvzz Popvli‘s latest outing. Should be a fun family reunion-type event, if you happen to be in Rome to catch it.
All the dates were posted on the social medias thusly:
FVZZ POPVLI – European Tour
Greetings brothers and sisters from the whole psych scene, FVZZ POPVLI will be back in europe for a huge 20 gigs tour presenting MAGNA FVZZ between September and October! This tour will cross seven countries: Italy, Austria, Germany, Denmark, Holland, Belgium, France and Spain.
The band will also have the honour to take part in three of the best festivals in the scene: Berlin Swamp Fest 2019 w/ DŸSE & Many More, Tabernas Desert Rock Fest Spain w/ Zodiac, Karma To Burn, Rotor, Powder for Pigeons, Avon, Daily Thompson and many more, and in the end Heavy Psych Sounds Fest // Roma w/ Giobia, BLACK RAINBOWS and more! Take a look to the following gigs list!
12.09.2019 – IT – ZEROBRANCO – ALTROQUANDO 13.09.2019 – A – GRAZ – CLUB Q / Stonedepartment 14.09.2019 – A – WIEN – Café Carina / Stoner Rock Night 15.09.2019 – D – NUREMBERG – Projekt 31 17.09.2019 – D – LEIPZIG – Black Label 18.09.2019 – D – HAMBURG – MS Stubnitz 19.09.2019 – D – BERLIN – Berlin Swamp Fest 20.09.2019 – DK – COPENHAGEN – Lygtens Kro 21.09.2019 – NL – HENGELO – INNOCENT 22.09.2019 – B – GAND – Den Drummer 25.09.2019 – F – SOULVACHE – Le Papier Buvard 26.09.2019 – F – RENNES – 17B 27.09.2019 – F – LORIENT – Le Galion 28.09.2019 – F – POITIERS – Le Cluricaume 02.10.2019 – F – TOULOUSE – La Cave à Rock 03.10.2019 – EH – BERRIZ – Topa Taberna 04.10.2019 – ES – MADRID – Trashcan Music Club – TCMC 05.10.2019 – ES – TABERNAS – DESERT ROCK FEST 06.10.2019 – ES – VALENCIA – EL ANTRO 12.10.2019 – IT – ROMA – Heavy Psych Sounds Fest // Roma
Photo: Valentina De Santis Poster Art: Riccardo Alexander
FVZZ POPVLI ARE: FRANCESCO “POOTCHIE” PUCCI – Guitar and Voice (BEESUS,The Wisdoom) DATIO PALATIO – Bass (The Anthony’s Vinyls) George – Drums
Posted in Whathaveyou on September 11th, 2018 by JJ Koczan
They’re going here, they’re going there. They’re going to Germany, like you do. Italian scuzzrockers Fvzz Popvli are set to release their second album, Magna Fvzz (review here), on Oct. 5 through Heavy Psych Sounds, and the night before, they’ll begin a run of more than three weeks’ worth of shows to support the record. You’ll note that this is the “European Tour Part I,” which means there’s a “Part II” lurking somewhere on the horizon.
I’d guess probably in the Spring if you were going to make me guess — which would be an odd thing for you to do — but it’s further evidence in any case of the band’s will to tour as they have done basically since they got going a couple years ago. They might not stop with “Part II,” either.
The PR wire has it accordingly:
FVZZ POPVLI – MAGNA FVZZ EUROPEAN TOUR part I
Magical Mistery Van & Heavy Psych Sounds are proud to announce the first leg of the “Magna Fvzz European Tour” from October 4th to 28th in Italy, Germany, Swtizerland, Netherlands, Austria and France. Ready to catch FVZZ POPVLI on the road?!? Check their routing here!
Raised in Rome by Pootchie and Datio in A.D. MMXVI, with the conception of powertrio a direct and rough way for bring heavy fuzzy riffs. Their sound melt Black Sabbath style heavy riffs with the attitude of the roughest garagepunk bands like The Stooges, adding the psychedelia from 70’s getin’ their own style! The band released and promote an “EP” in May 2017 with a tour in Italy, Switzerland and Germany.
In June 2017 them become a part of the Heavy Psych Sounds Records (Brant Bjork, Nick Olivieri, Fatso Jetson, Yawning Man, Nebula, Giöbia, Duel, Black Rianbows.) roster for promote their first album “FVZZ DEI” out in September 2017, the album has brought the band on more than 70 european stages in 8 countries gettin’ the chanche to play in the mysterious DUNA JAM. In June 2018 the band recorded their 2nd album “MAGNA FVZZ”, will be released October 5th !!
04.10.2018 – I – Verona – Stoner Mafia Party 05.10.2018 – A – Graz – Club Q 06.10.2018 – A – Bludenz – Villa K 07.10.2018 – CH – Basel – Renèe 09.10.2018 – CH – Biel – Labiu 10.10.2018 – F – Stuttgart – Keller Klub 11.10.2018 – F – Nancy – The Riveter 12.10.2018 – F – Rouen – Les 3 Pièces 13.10.2018 – NL – Hengelo – The Sound – Innocent 15.10.2018 – D – Osnabruck – Dirty + Dancing 16.10.2018 – D – Dresden – Elbsludge 17.10.2018 – D – Leipzig – Black Label 18.10.2018 – D – Berlin – Toast Hawaii 19.10.2018 – D – Nuremberg – Projekt 31 20.10.2018 – D – Zittau – Bunter Hund 21.10.2018 – A – Wien – Weberknekt 23.10.2018 – D – Rosenheim – Asta 24.10.2018 – CH – La-Chaux-De-Fonds – Lac 25.10.2018 – CH – Geneve – D’urgence Disk 26.10.2018 – F – Roquebrune Cap Martin – Secret Show 27.10.2018 – IT – Parma – Splinter Club 28.10.2018 – IT – Bologna – Mikasa
FVZZ POPVLI ARE: FRANCESCO “POOTCHIE” PUCCI – Guitar and Voice (BEESUS,The Wisdoom) DATIO PALATIO – Bass (The Anthony’s Vinyls) George – Drums
[Click play above to stream ‘And Let it Die…’ from Fvzz Popvli’s Magna Fvzz. Album is out Oct. 5 on Heavy Psych Sounds.]
Roman ‘u’-averse scuzzriffers Fvzz Popvli return on a quick turnaround with their second album for Heavy Psych Sounds, Magna Fvzz. The follow-up to last year’s Fvzz Dei (discussed here) arrives after multiple rounds of touring and an appearance at Duna Jam in Sardinia and finds the fuzz of the masses taking the form of a blender of modern influences from the likes of Kadavar, Uncle Acid, Black Rainbows and Electric Wizard, as well as a swath of US West Coast heavy jams brought through a filter of distance and the three-piece’s other component elements. It’s a fascinating and enticing blend, and Fvzz Popvli — the trio of Francesco “Pootchie” Pucci (see also: Beesus and The Wisdoom), bassist Datio Palatio and drummer Doncalisto — put it all together to emerge with a burgeoning personality of their own on dug-in cuts (cvts?) like “Rvmpletvm” and opener “And Let it Die…,” the total seven-track/39-minute offering rounding out with the 12-minute closer “Magna Fvzz” with Bazu from psych rockers Giöbia sitting in on synth.
That song is led into by “Rvmpletvm” and “Cherry Bowl,” which are the only two other tracks over five minutes long, so there’s a distinct feeling of pushing further along an outward path leading into the finale, and with the uptempo garage dirt in the tones of “And Let it Die…” and the bounce and swing of the subsequent “Napoleon,” the outset of Magna Fvzz is immersive enough to make sure the listener is brought on board for the trip. “Napoleon” more fully unveils a penchant for rolling groove that the more brash leadoff hinted at, and that only lets the trio build a more fervent momentum pushing through one song into the next on the way to the instrumental closer, which, again, is where everything seems to find its far-out limit, as much as there is one, with space being endless and all that.
More than anything else, Fvzz Popvli sound like a band moving in the right direction. They’re headed toward finding a niche between their points of inspiration that is becoming their own sound, and in the meantime, an emerging sense of songwriting and aesthetic craft serves them well on this sophomore outing. Magna Fvzz is somewhat more humble (hvmble? okay, I’ll stop) in its aesthetic than the grandiose title might lead one to believe, but the willful arrogance there, the use of the superlative, doesn’t feel accidental. It speaks to an underlying influence out of classic punk — The Stooges walk by and wave — that Fvzz Popvli manifest amid the grit of Pucci and Palatio‘s tonality and the blown-out effects on the vocals. To wit, the speedy “The Deal” rolls out with bruise-leaving fuckall, its 3:35 run the shortest on the album not for any radical change in structure so much as tempo, and finds Pucci tearing into a solo that’s one of the highlights of the record and perhaps the most direct tie to the Pacific Coast underground; bands like Radio Moscow and Earthless seeming to inform its jammed-out, off-the-cuff vibe.
Following “And Let it Die…” and “Napoleon,” “The Deal” seems to be the culmination of this aspect of the band’s personality, as the remaining four-tracks will push into new territory. That’s a classic mullet of an album structure — business up front, party in the back — but Fvzz Popvli wear it like a band-logo trucker hat and bring their sound to life with due vibrancy and naturalism, an organic live feel permeating the proceedings and adding to the flow between the songs as well as the impact of them individually, each seeming to bring something different to the collection as a whole while also offering standout moments like the “na-na-na” hook of “And Let it Die…” or Doncalisto‘s kick into a gallop in the second half of “The Deal.” All of this works together to give Magna Fvzz the feel of being the work of a group in the process of coming into their own, and as with Fvzz Dei and their initial single, Lost in Time (discussed here), before it, the potential for where Fvzz Popvli might end up is writ large in this material.
Perhaps nowhere more than in the centerpiece “Get Me,” which would seem to be the gateway to the back end of Magna Fvzz and with a 4:20 runtime emits a decidedly grunge feel early on, a mellow start with Pucci‘s still-effects-drenched vocals highlighting some melody while enacting a build that launches into fuller tone shortly before the halfway point and continues to build as it goes forward, a buzzsaw lead taking hold just before the three-minute mark seeming to be the culmination of the filth-laden side of Fvzz Popvli‘s sonic persona, and Pucci‘s vocals answer back with a particularly Obornian sneer. The subsequent “Rvmpletvm” is more patient but still plenty grime-caked in its low-end fuzz, though some layered-in acoustic guitar adds nuance and a sense of subtlety one might not expect for an album that has thus far been so pointed in its intent. Thus Magna Fvzz‘s sonic expansion is underway, and “Cherry Bowl” continues it with a more direct vocal melody and swirling guitar over a swinging and hypnotic progression on a long, minute-plus fadeout leading to the title-track’s initial noise-barrage and drum-led unfolding.
I don’t know if “Magna Fvzz” itself is improvised, but even if they went into the studio with a general plan, a good deal of it would seem to be captured live, and that comes through especially with the wash of synth added to the core three-piece’s sound. One almost wishes there were vocals somewhere in its mire to tie it more to the six songs preceding, but neither would I trade the noise-barrage after seven minutes in and the final build that follows from the ground up, a nodding and resonant finish that leads to noise and a cold stop as though everyone just decided they’d gone far enough. I’m not inclined to argue. Fvzz Popvli had an encouraging debut and answer it here with a purposeful sense of creative progression underway. Their greatest impact may still be yet to come — recall the band only formed two years ago; whatever bands their members were in before, they’re still relatively new as a group — but the potential in their scvzz fvzz is right there waiting to be heard.
Posted in Whathaveyou on July 30th, 2018 by JJ Koczan
PootchiePucci and company from Italian heavy trio Fvzz Popvli are back this Fall with a new record following-up their Heavy Psych Sounds debut, Fvzz Dei, which came out last year. Keeping on theme, the new collection is titled Magna Fvzz, and it boasts seven tracks that, if the debut was any indicator, will live up to the idea of tone worship that the title hints toward. As you can see above, the three-piece hit the legendary Duna Jam — and by legendary in this instance I mean “does it even really exist?” — this year and, as everyone seems to do in the resultant photos, played to a gorgeous Sardinian sunset. Fucking awesome. The release date for Magna Fvzz is Oct. 5, which is as good a time as any, and preorders start Aug. 2. One imagines we’ll get some advance audio around then as well, so right on.
The PR wire issues preliminary details and the cover art as follows:
Heavy Psych Sounds Records & Booking is proud to unveil details and artwork of FVZZ POPVLI’s new album MAGNA FVZZ!
One year after their rough, lo-fi and rude debut album “Fvzz Dei”, Rome-based FVZZ POPVLI have unveiled first details about their second and hotly anticipated album titled “Magna Fvzz“, in Latin the Great Fuzz, set to be released October 5th 2018 with Heavy Psych Sounds!
Their new album features 7 killer tracks between the 60’s and 70’s psychedelic rock to the 90’s Heavy Psych, the record sounds so bright and clear with a typical warm rock’n’roll sound and obviously tons and tons of fuzz! The last homonym track is featuring Bazu on the Synths, from mighty acid rockers Giöbia. Highly recommended for fans of The Stooges, Black Sabbath and Hawkwind!
“Magna Fvzz” will be available as:
10 ULTRA LTD TEST PRESS 75 ULTRA LTD “3 COLOUR SEGMENT” WHITE/BLUE/PURPLE VINYL 350 LTD SPLATTER TRANSPARENT YELLOW BACKGROUND-SPLATTER BLUE/RED/PURPLE VINYL BLACK VINYL DIGIPAK / DIGITAL
PRE-ORDERS start on August 2nd 2018 on Heavy Psych Sounds!
The tracklist will read as follows: 1. Let It Die… 2. Napoleon 3. The Deal 4. Get Me 5. Rvmpeltum 6. Cherry Bowl 7. Magnafvzz
Raised in Rome by Pootchie and Datio in A.D. MMXVI, this powertrio offers a direct and rough way to deliver some finest heavy fuzzy riffs! Their sound melt Black Sabbath style heavy riffs with the attitude of the roughest garagepunk bands like The Stooges, adding the psychedelia from the 70’s while creating their very own sound. The band released an EP in May 2017 followed by numerous shows in Italy, Switzerland and Germany. In June 2017 they became part of the Heavy Psych Sounds Records roster (Brant Bjork, Nick Olivieri, Fatso Jetson, Yawning Man, Nebula, Giöbia, Duel, Black Rainbows) in release of their first album “FVZZ DEI” in September 2017. Their debut has brought the band on more than 70 European stages in 8 countries and even got them the rare chance to play the mighty DUNA JAM. In June 2018 the band recorded their 2nd album “MAGNA FVZZ”, which will be released on October 5th 2018 with many European tourdates to follow!
FVZZ POPVLI ARE: FRANCESCO “POOTCHIE” PUCCI – Guitar and Voice (BEESUS,The Wisdoom) DATIO PALATIO – Bass (The Anthony’s Vinyls) Doncalisto – Drums