When requested to flesh out the most recent single from his arty garage-rock trio Zopa, Emmy winner Michael Imperioli takes the simple approach out.
“The title just about says all of it,” he says. “The characters within the track are primarily based on actual individuals from way back.”
Finest recognized for his supporting roles in The Sopranos and, extra lately, White Lotus, Imperioli has been dancing across the periphery of New York Metropolis’s underground music and humanities scenes for the reason that mid-’80s. He first related with Olmo Tighe on the set of the 1994 movie Postcards From America, the place Imperioli’s hustler makes a straightforward mark of Tighe’s impressionable younger lead character in a movie primarily based loosely on the lifetime of artist and AIDS activist David Wojnarowicz. Greater than a decade later, Imperioli acquired wind of Tighe’s abilities on drums, and the 2 organized a observe session in February 2006 with Tighe’s childhood pal, Elijah Amtin, on bass.
5 months later, Zopa performed its first present within the Portuguese capital of Lisbon. The band’s debut LP, La Dolce Vita, didn’t emerge till 2021. Alongside the way in which, Zopa has shared levels with the likes of Robert Pollard, David Johansen, Tommy Stinson, Jesse Malin and Richard Butler. The trio even wrangled much-respected indie-rock workhorse John Agnello to co-produce Diamond Automobile, a self-released effort due February 21 via BFE/The Orchard.
“Life And Different Kinds Of Violence,” the album’s second observe, marks the primary time Imperioli has used his Dying By Audio Fuzz Warfare pedal. “It was created by our pal Oliver Ackermann of A Place To Bury Strangers, and I actually love the dynamic it dropped at the track,” says Imperioli. “I additionally dig the 2 totally different lyric/melodic strains intertwined within the refrain. The outro contains the Ārya Tārā mantra, which is thought for its highly effective pacifying and protecting qualities.”
We’re proud to premiere Zopa’s “Love And Different Kinds Of Violence.”
—Hobart Rowland
