2006 release ** "Kokoro Mayikibo are a Milanese rock band (I don’t like or agree with the definition that has been given to them as a case of deviant pop-rock, because the bourgeois concept of “deviance” is already sociologically – that is, where it originates, in sociology – very questionable). Therefore, it is a rock that looks forward and also looks back to look at the punk/new wave of the second half of the 70s, or to repay its debt to it. That New Wave that originated from the Stooges, the MC5, the Velvet Underground, tormented by a poetic rebellion that clashes with the conforming, alienating and industrialized reality (and today only more subtle where it is post-industrialized). Above all, it seems like we are listening again to the first Pere Ubu records, epochal albums like Dub Housing, with splashes of white funk à la Talking Heads, the devolution of Devo, a vibrant pop sensibility with Beefheartian-style sonic assaults… What would later become Husker Du, Pixies, Sonic Youth, Minutemen, Mission of Burma… The group, born with this “business name” of “Kokoro Mayikibo” in the spring of 2000, from the ashes of Sister Confusion, Città Sotterranea, Don Zauker and Go Fly A Kite, is made up of: Andrea Reali, vocals and sax; Accursio Graffeo, guitar and backing vocals; Luca Mauri, drums; Alfonso Celentano, bass and guitar."