condition (record/cover): NM / EX- (light creasing and spine wear)
Insert included.
CCCP was born in the underground humus of an East Berlin divided between punk and disco, in the Italy of the ebb, the post-'77 era (movement, creativity, heroin), the post-Years of Lead (states of unrest), crushed between singer-songwriters and the plasticity of the '80s shining with the first lights of Mediaset and Videomusic. A desperate Italy, hungry for something new. Ferretti and Zamboni were kids bewitched by English free jazz punk, dry and stylized figures like Diaframma and Litfiba, the Italian new wave. This is a context that can authorize the existence of something like CCCP, that can explain their dark electro-pop, industrial, and stripped-down punk, Giovanni Lindo's chanting, and Zamboni's grating; but it doesn't justify their scope. Because CCCP were something like Velvet Underground + De André, science fiction in action, aliens on Earth, life-art, true popular avant-garde. Other absolutes will come (Epica Etica Etnica Pathos, when CCCP were effectively already CSI), in an otherwise essential discography, but Affinità is a disturbing monument that is self-sufficient: the Ground Zero of Italian music.