Skiantos

Skiantos are an Italian band formed in Bologna in 1975 around singer Roberto "Freak" Antoni (1954-2014). They mixed punk with comic, deliberately crude songs and provocative stage actions drawn from Futurism and Dada, a style known in Italy as rock demenziale. Their first recording, Inascoltable, was improvised in the studio in 1977 and issued on cassette by Oderso Rubini's Harpo's Bazaar. Gianni Sassi's Cramps Records released MONOtono (1978), followed by Kinotto (1979) and Pesissimo! (1980).