Tasaday

Tasaday are an industrial and noise group, with accents of tribal and post-rock. The band was the result of the fusion of Die Form and Nulla Iperreale. 

In 1981 Electric Eye released the first album on cassette by Brianzoli band Die Form entitled 'La Dimensione Umana'. The group consisted of Abderezac Ahmed (Saxophone, clarinet and voice), Alessandro Ripamonti, Alessandro Ronchi (Guitar), Carlo Ronchi (electric bass), Roberto Girardi (drums) and Stefano Sangalli (synthesizer and voice). Always in Brianza in those years move the Orgasmo Negato, that soon change name in Nulla Iperreale, formed by Alessandro Ripamonti (synthesizers), Marco Camorali (bass, amputed bass, percussions, voice and various material) and Paolo Cantù (guitar and electronic drums). The two groups started a collaboration, merging in Die Form & Nulla Iperreale. 

Together they activated an intense activity of concerts, fanzine productions, radio broadcasts and numerous tapes co-produced by their own labels Tasaday and ADN; 'Il Nulla Che Attira A Se' (1983, ADN) by Nulla Iperreale and under the name Die Form & Nulla Iperreale 'La Parte Maledetta' (1983) and 'In Un Silenzio Oscuro' (1983, ADN). 

In 1984 the release of the album 'Aprirsi Nel Silenzio' (ADN) sanctioned the definitive merger of the two groups under the name of Tasaday. The name was after the indigenous tribe discovered in the Philippines in 1971. The group merged new wave sounds, the influences of Einstürzende Neubauten and Throbbing Gristle, adding to this the unusual tone of wind instruments and tribal rhythms, with an attitude that made them similar to the avant-garde or free jazz. In their works, not only musical references are often cited, ranging from Heidegger to Georges Bataille, from Jean Baudrillard to the New German Cinema. 

Among 1984 and 1985 they released 'Tra Le Rovine Dei Sensi', 'Implosione Tra Le Pieghe Dell'Anima' -in which appears the song "The Roads Of Delhi" composed together with Laxative Souls- and 'Riflessi Sensibile'. In the autumn of 1988 they performed the Milanese festival Decadenze-a-Dissonanze, organized under the aegis of ADN, in one of their last memorable concerts, with an already restructured line-up. In this period several members left the group; first Abderezac Ahmed, then Roberto Girardi and Paolo Cantù who were to form Afterhours. [SOURCE: WIKIPEDIA]