N.A.D. - Ghosts with guest Roberto Zorzi

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N.A.D. - Ghosts with guest Roberto Zorzi

Niù Abdominaux Dangereux first album Ghosts (1989) changed the world, did you notice?

Mar 07, 2025

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The cover of the album was greatly inspired by the Italian Futurists, further reading HERE and also HERE

The art of cut-n-paste

In the music as in the video.

Compare the 2016 video of Lorenza In Arabia with Irina Akulenko’s belly dancing lesson.

Now consider the Youtube relationship between N.A.D. Arrivederla Eccellenza!/Peace and the video of Michael Manring performing Monkey Businessman.

Totô was a very important influence on the N.A.D. Here is a clip, selected by Roberto that has the master in action, with English subtitles.

…and you might as well have the entire film that Totô made with Pasolini. This might not be available everywhere.

Here is N.A.D at Il Posto, in Verona, the place that really got them started…

Il Posto is still going! Link HERE
Winning a competition in the magazine Fare Musica in 1987 gave N.A.D. the impetus they needed to commit their music to vinyl.

Oberdubbing NYC with Sonny Sharrock, Elliot Sharp, Christian Marklay, Denardo Coleman, Fred Frith

Enrico Merlin 1000 Dischi per un secolo 1900-2000

Then, in 2012, Enrico Merlin published his collosal “1000 Dischi per un Secolo 1900 - 2000”, in which he namechecked the N.A.D. Record as number 850. This resulted in the band reforming and issuing their second album. Incredible as it seems, this monumental work has yet to be translated into English, despite being reprinted in 2023, but Enrico Merlin has a large and informative website, link HERE, which has videos of him talking about some of the entries.

Here’s a video of Roberto on his own in 2023. It’s best with headphones…

Most Importantly, HERE is the link to Roberto’s Bandcamp page…
…and HERE is a link to the two Hans Reichel albums the Roberto talked about
If you wanted to know more about Sonny Sharrock, HERE is a great article

Henry Kaiser turns up in the Werner Herzog Documentary “Encounters at the End of the World”

…and here is a completely unnecessary piece of artwork for a movie featuring Marina Frajese. Maybe she only got to certain parts of Hollywood.

Roberto wanted us to dedicate this episode to the memory of Nicola Salerno, so maybe it’s fitting that we should end with a track from the album of his first band RADAR.