ESP-disk
Dedicated to Marcella Sali Grace
Cover by Squaz

1. With A Mirror And A Magnifying Glass
2. Children Slaves Make Childrens Toys
3. They Make Them For They.
4. Conformist Freedom, Reactionary Tourist
5. This Is A Simplified Response...
6. The Sickofwar Traine
7. (Yes) The Border Crossed Us
8. (We) Would You If You Could?
9. (Can) Don't Sleep Through This
10. (We?) This Is The Days Of Your Life
11. I May Not Get There With You.
12. Dust To People To Ashes.
13. Everybody Settle Down,
14. This Is How It Is:
15. Everything Is Easy
16. But The Sun Don't Wait.

From Foxy Digitalis:
ESP-Disk continues its mission to expand our ears ever outwards with this fascinating CD of “revolutionary politics and intelligent semi-acoustic avant-punk fervor.” Musically it swings from playful and light to aggressive, with just the right amount of roughness applied to the mix. Tsigoti are essentially a guitar-bass-drums-piano outfit, but one with a clear and vital punk sensibility. One of the more intriguing elements is the ever-present and insistent piano that courses throughout the entire album and provides its heart. Thollem McDonas is credited with “beatup piano,” and it’s no exaggeration. A found piano is used, and McDonas embraces its nature so thoroughly that its dissonant keys seem tailor-made for the band. I found myself wishing there were even more piano on it and the tracks where its musty, warped tonality are central work best. The group play exceptionally well together, and achieve a cohesive unity with apparent ease.
Subtlety, however, is not the band’s strong suit, and that’s fine for the most part. Both musically and lyrically, no punches are pulled. The group appear to take lyrical inspiration from the likes of Crass and the Ex, but updated for a new era. And like both of those bands, it can sometimes be tough going for the listener, feeling like you’re stuck in a political science lecture hall when you simply want to rock out. But somehow at the end of the hour, Tsigoti will win you over, and you’ll be hitting play again and again. There’s a distinct memorability to many of the songs that works in their favor, even when the sloganeering threatens to annoy. Some are downright addictive (particularly “Children’s Slaves Makes Children’s Toys”), which could be a hugely popular single in a more warped and wonderful version of our world. At 16 tracks, it’s too long and long-winded, but this is a band with something to say and the means for saying it like nobody else could even conceptualize. They sound like a band on a mission, but not so narrowly focused that they’ve lost sight of the need for people to actually enjoy the listening experience. For that reason alone, they’re worth keeping an eye on. 8/10 -- Eric Hardiman (8 September, 2010)

Previous Tour, 2011
Aprile 13 at Dal Verme Roma
Aprile 17 at Ex Stazione FS Boscoreale
Aprile 19 at Zo Catania
Aprile 20 at Lebowsky Ragusa
Aprile 21 at Agriturismo Capuano Gangi
Aprile 22 at Tavola Tonda Palermo
Aprile 23 and 24 at Tavola Tonda (Improvisations workshop) Palermo
Aprile 25 at Blue Dahlia Marina Di Gioiosa Jonica
Aprile 28 at i Sotteranei Copertino
Aprile 29 at La Macerie Molfetta
Aprile 30 at Hotel de Ville San Giorgio Jonico
Maggio 1 at Japigie Corsano
Maggio 2 at Lughé Lugo
Maggio 3 at MKC Koper, Slovenia
Maggio 4 at XM24 Bologna
Maggio 5 at Circolo Aurora Firenze
Maggio 6 at Dalla Cira Pesaro
Maggio 7 at CSC San Vito Di Leguzzano

From Tiny Mix Tapes
“(Yes) The Border Crossed Us,” the second single from Italian avant-punk gang TSIGOTI’s ESP-Disk Debut, Private Poverty to the Power People, is an exercise in political debauchery and a forward vocal delivery of self-restraint from Thollem Mcdonas that comes a-swingin’ right out of the gate. Behind this lies the wirey, convulsive guitars of mastermind Matteo Bennici that become the driving force of this quasi-punk anthem, while the rhythm section spends time deconstructing things down into No-Wave-esque breakdowns and pummeling, fluid drumming.

TSIGOTI Reviewed by KFJC FM
January 25th, 2010
TSIGOTI – Private Poverty Speaks to the People of the Party (ESP 4057)
Thollem McDonas proves his versatility and social conscience with this new release from Tsigoti (formerly Waristerror Terroris war). The lyrics printed on the liner notes are crucial to appreciating McDonas’ spoken and sung vocals backed by himself on beat-up piano, Andrea Caprara on drums, Matteo Bennici on bass, and Jacopo Andreini on electric guitar. The music itself is mostly fast-paced, off-beat, punk rock that perfectly complements the anti-war themes of the songs. This is in a league with Jello Biafra and the Guantanamo School of Medicine.

TSIGOTI Review in Bad Alchemy
December 23rd, 2009
Translated from German to English using Google Translate
TSIGOTI – Private Poverty Speaks To The People Of The Party (ESP 4057):
Thollem McDonas plays punk-Not-Jazz, No Wave, protest music? Na sowas. In collaboration with Italian Fight for Your Right-to-Partysane he hammers a broken piano, and railed against war, bombs, landmines, against capital and consumption, sings of freedom, equality and justice, personal responsibility, against the St. Florian – principle. His Mitprotestler, the guitarist Jacopo Andreini, Matteo Bennici the bassist, drummer Andrea Caprara, are associates, in Kinshasa and among themselves – with McDonas – even in Squarcicatrici or Lubuaku. The critical awareness of Andreini and Squarcicatrici is also reflected in their boycott of Murdoch and MySpace consistent refusal. Tsigoti’s attacks are no punches lyrically and sonically they rock one with my ass in the face. MAMA MAMA MAMA
IIIIIII’MSICKOFWARSICKOFWARSICKOFWAR.
Freedom and peace do not exist through entertainment and not to consume him. Between squander, beautiful nightmares’ and ‘horrible dreams’ greed and brutality quadrillion for our safety “and convenience. On the other hand as brothers-tackles Tsigoti of The Ex and the Pop Group. The relationship shows an accordion in the balancing act between the Balkans and Sandinista. Again and again, the No Wave guitar schrappelt, occasionally roar and saxophones, blaring the whole block. While Squarcicatrici and Lubuaku how nipozzanzibarische ‘cousins of the Actis Band sound is Tsigoti blunt, direct, and – the great artwork by Squaz already makes it clear – apart from the message Saukomisches.

Tsigoti Highly Recommended by Paratuwalkman
Tsigoti is an avantgarde band recently formed by Thollem McDonas on piano, Andrea copra in the battery, Matteo Bennici on bass and Jacopo Andreini on guitar. The band experiments with a sound very close to punk, but their sound is experimental, but by default we are very aggressive anarchist content. Within all content on social issues with which they catch us, include musical merit and style of the band. Highly recommended

From Recensioni:
Scattered voices, piano and drums intro to illuminate the silent, drunken voice in American film noir style. Who the fuck are these Tsigoti?
It 's a collaborative improvisation punk band dedicated to expressing opposition to the war
authoritarian regimes and violent religious extremism. it consists of elements from two different containing (Europe-America) that express a great experience and variety of musical situations. Their first album was implemented a year after the war between Lebanon and Israel in 2006 was inspired by that conflict but it speaks of war in general. Some songs were written within hours and without rehearsals they have recorded their first album "TheBrutalRealityOfModernBrutality" in three days. Have met again this year to record their second album "Private Poverty Speaks To The People Of The Party ", playing in front of their enthusiastic supporters. But the second piece is intriguing, personal, rhythmic, captivating. And third, "They make They Theme for "it is even more. Very good.
Now let's see if they can stay on long distance. And the answer is yes.
"This Is A Simplified response" maintains a high rate of alcohol and the perception of being inside a crime film is confirmed by "The sickofwar train" and "Everybody settle down
Do not miss even a moment of reflection more like "(we) would you if You Could" and
"Dust to people to ashes." The surprise of the month.

RESULTS: Top 12 of the Week
A great turn-out of voters this week for Radio 1190’s Top 12 New Albums Countdown. I’m guessing its cuz everyone’s online freaking out about the Apple Keynote so while waiting you came over here to vote, right?
What an exciting day, Apple Keynote, Top 12 Countdown and the President’s State of the Union Address!
So the Top 12 results tallied… these are the newer records that have made the cut and are currently in our new music rotation.
Based on your votes, here is the Top 12 of the week:
12)Oh No Ono — Eggs (Friendly Fire)
11)The Watson Twins — Talking to You, Talking to Me (Vanguard)
10)The Soft Pack — S/T (Kermado)
9)Dont’s And Be Carefuls — Risk Assessment (Self)
8)animal collective — Fall Be Kind (Domino)
7)Moonspeed — Flowers of the Moon (Flight Approved)
6)Gangcharger — The Metal Sun EP (Weather Censory Media)
5)Molina and Johnson — S/T (Secretly Canadian)
4)Surfer Blood — Astro Coast (Kanine)
3)Spoon — Transference (Merge)
2)Computer Perfection — We Wish You Well On Your Way To Hell (Le Grand Magistery
1)Tsigoti — PrivatePovertySpeakstothePeopleoftheParty (ESP Disk)

-Break Thru Radio Blog
Feeling anti-war? Well, this band made an entire album about that feeling, loaded with facts, anger and first-person experiences. Set to a pensive bass pluck, this particular song is basically a spoken word type-thang, full of horrifying statistics about the effects of armed conflict. You know, little nuggets like “They figure about 20 million children have been forced to flee their homes because of conflicts, or violations of human rights, and are now currently living as refugees. About 2 million children have been killed in conflicts over the past decade.”
The almost matter-of-fact way singer Thollem McDonas drops each immensely depressing fact is oddly funny, in a way. It’s like he’s making a commentary on how the human race just absorbs these stats with a sigh, “oh well,” and “let’s go see that new Michael Bay film.”
True, it’s not the most cheery tune, but there is definitely a time and place for it. Something to think about…

By Raul d’Gama Rose - All About Jazz
If it is hard to believe that the “boomers” of the sixties became the suits of the nineties, it is equally difficult to believe that their energy for political activism lives on today. That is, until hearing the music on Private Property Speaks to the People of the Party, by a group of musicians who call themselves Tsigoti and who are difficult to categorize. That, however, will not diminish the relative success of the band, which originally set out to protest the horrors of war, but now appear to have broadened its attack as a full frontal on the horrors of capitalism.
To that extent, Private Poverty is a great leap forward and uses as its

diving board, the Barack Obama signature, “Yes We Can.” However, in the same fashion associated largely with Frank Zappa in his days when he took on Tipper Gore and the Senate to protest censorship of pop lyrics, this band’s music drips with its sense of irony. So when they get down to the use of the Obama slogan there is meaningful irony in how it is juxtaposed with the band’s “bar-none” lyrics. The off-key and almost atonal use of melody in their songs goes much farther in creating their abject sense of being surrounded by a vacuous capitalist society.
The lyrics ring out with direct simplicity. There is scant attention paid to idiomatic phrases; although the song structure survives, relatively unscathed, the band destroys most of pop music’s rationale and raison d’être. Rather, they focus on the power of the blow to the chin. The effect that they create from music that is so wrong, it may seem right after all. “Conformist Freedom, Reactionary Tourist” and “The SickofWar Traine” are fine examples of this anti-stylistic style.
The song sequence that appears to gently mock the sloganeering of “Yes We Can” with tracks such as “The Border Crossed Us,” “Would You If You Can” and “Don’t Sleep Through This” culminates in the far-out questioning of the response. This occurs with “(We?) This is the Days of Your Life”—the questioning “We” imploringly asking whether there is actually commitment to what would become an adage for the Democrats on the part of the party. And so, while politically offensive to the GOP, the music is also coiled into a whip with which to beat the hypocrisy of the left as well.
Is this music? Of course it is. The objective of all art is to be committed to the audience for which it is created—and that includes the audience that helps create it. In the case of the rough and tumble of Tsigoti’s music, the manifesto is anti-capitalism. The music sounds as if it were thumbing its nose against anything that might be considered the “safe bet” or norm. To that extent the record is well worth the listen.

TSIGOTI reviewed on We Want War (Czech Republic)
Minirecenze: Tsigoti – Private Poverty Speaks To The People Of The Party
As a note! While this is objective and does not have any weight, but accept the fact that you are just starting to read about the best album of the year! It is possible that by the end of change, but I’d rather guess not, because Tsigoti deployed bar so high that it would not Sotomayor nep?esko?il!
Tsigoti are first and foremost Thollem Sickofwar. Thollem how little you can deduce from his nickname, certainly does not take lightly what is happening around him. This uncompromising and incredibly hravej novátorskej pianist gave themselves known already in 2005 that through a collaboration doblekotal until 2008, when it became his collaboration with the Italian trio multiinstrumentalním názvemWaristerror Terroriswar – The Brutal Reality Of Modern brutality. What was that about? Crazy and the distance it covered the plate with a shootout between Lebanon and Israel in 2006, if you still remember it.
Already this is in itself very normal and even recording albums was not really “oby?. It took Thollem bunch of texts about the year he wrote during his stay in Prague, is oddly zp?eházel and sang with that band got echo what was going through during filming. Free art-punk. Or something like that.
But shit dog, let the present. Present name Thollem January 2010, and formed his next project, again with those Echt muzikantama from Italy and called him Tsigoti (which means I see). Tsigoti the content moved from Israel to America and it certainly does not mean that the aggression is somehow rozmo?ila in lace and našlapování shoes. No. Thollem It pissed (zklamanej, paranoid, bad) all the time. And those lyrics, master. Frank Zappa to be tapping into the grave. Conformist Freedom Reactionary Tourist. Yes, there is a clear anti-capitalist aggressive beast that bites into all the unspoken questions and silly answers.
Start of course comes as the Obama (Yes, WE CAN! We?). But do not worry that you would have seen some self-centered punk-chic onanism. Thollem it all very neatly packed into the heavily satirical, ironic tunes (The Border crossed us is a total top!) And abstrakních compounds, very much like to Topol and his wretched soldiers – and not just in words, lyrics, phrasing and voice, but also musically.
If you can find some indications of what Tsigoti play, give it to me. I want him to know. I’m happy with a combination of experimental art-punk, šlehajícího the spoken word, cabaret, and noise rock. It’s a crazy mess, somewhere between Pere Ubu, Zappa and Vojákama. And it is so sexy!
400 listeners on last.fm, and total disinterest in the music world on Tollema is the mockery. Flusn?te hypster?m face, Tsigoti our anarchy!