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Contrazione was a collective of political elaboration and text-music production that was active in Turin between the
spring of 1983 and the summer of 1985, becoming one of the most relevant bands of the initial phase of the libertarian
and anarchist Italian punk movement.
It was born from the encounter of people from different bands that emerged in the pioneering phase of 1981-82: 5°
Braccio, Fiori del Male and Kina.
Contrazione produced the split album 'Franti/Contrazione' (self-produced, 1984) and the mini album 'Cineocchio. Storia
e Memoria' (Blu Bus, 1985), as well as featuring on the international double album 'International P.E.A.C.E. Benefit
Compilation' (R Radical Records, 1984) and countless tape compilations of that period.
In those years, Contrazione took part in the anarchist punk collective in Turin and was active in the Italian context of
occupations and self-management - from Virus in Milan to small venues such as the Tuwat in Carpi - and extending to
places like Berlin or Amsterdam.
A characteristic of Contrazione's happenings, besides music, is the reading and distribution of political texts, and the use
of tapes and theatrical performances.
In the disintegrating industrial Turin of the early 1980s, the themes of urban desperation, the fight against prisons,
multinationals and commodification, and the self-management of one's own life recurrently permeate the music and
lyrics of Contrazione, who played about fifty shows in Italy and abroad over the period of two years.
This album is dedicated to Mara Caberlin, voice and mind of Contrazione, a true charismatic figure of the early Italian
punk scene.
Cover and back cover curated by Sergio Tosato; the album will be released in a gatefold version containing the lyrics and
photos of the band.

Area Pirata was born in 2001 immediately tended to Garage, R'n'R, HC-Punk…
We care about reissue of old records no more available or unissued as well as new records recorded from bands on activities with an attitude alike ours.
We tought and we still think that our attitude and determination could be a factor to help those real underground scenes not depending strictly on the kind of muisc!

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