"Rock star Sid Vicious is dead," are the words with which the BBC Radio's news anchor man started his late afternoon show, and the sample from that same broadcast also starts the actual opening track “Sid” on Seta's debut album Interferenze (which incidentally is also the title of the album opening instrumental intro, which consists of 42 minutes of synth sounds and a couple of very short samples from that same news broadcast – larger samples are then used during “Sid”).
This Verona based Italian band was started in 2009 by singer Luca Tosato, keyboard/ synth player Alberto Rossetti, and bassist Rudy Ferrarese. These three had been playing together for some 15 years, and had just won Vicenza's Festival Nazionale Città del Palladio with the band they were then in, overthrowing some 400 other participants from all over Italy. During that event, the band had made an impression on journalists Alessandro Castagna and Stefano Porta (which also led to the band's victory at the event), and the duo stayed in contact with the band until Seta's birth (then still as a trio), deciding to help publish a first single entitled “Sid” (hey...remember?) and appending video clip. It already displayed the trio's ideas of an alternative Electro Rock in which fragile yet stringent keyboard/ synth lines work together with attractive and catchy guitar, and Italian lyrics. Since then, the trio continued work toward their debut album on an apparently irregular basis, picking up extra members Lorenzo Meuti (guitar) and Matteo Ortolani (drums) along the way. During May and June 2912, the band participated in the Battle Of The Bands Italia, a competition organized by Virgin Radio in collaboration with Fiat and Hard Rock Cafe. After the preliminary elimination parts of the competition, Seta (detail: the bandname translates to silk) classified with over 22,000 votes and having a video (“Sid”) which fell among the 50 most viewed, and forged on to pass the quarter finals into the semi-finals. As a direct result of the band's success, they get to play a support slot with The Bastard Sons Of Dioniso in January 2013, and put more effort in finalizing the songs needed for their debut album. Having recorded their album, they signed a deal with Atomic Stuff Records, with a release of the album following in September 2013!
You can find music off the album at (www.) setaofficial.com (with a video for “Per Un Giorno Di Più”) through a link with SoundCloud (songs posted are “Sid”, “per Un Giorno In Più”, and the album closing instrumental “SyNTHESI” - including the album's ghost track “Sueno”). More material (2 songs recorded in live conditions) can be found at the band's facebook (link on own site, as are links to the band's twitter, YouTube, and the album's iTunes pages). What you can expect is a nice Electro Rock in which the exhuberant guitar is frequently prevalent, but which also leaves space for the calmer yet exciting keyboard/ synth lines. I guess you'll agree with me that the band's singing in their mother tongue will however possibly hamper the band's international progress. However, the Italian contingencies in countries all over the world might still follow up on the release, and give it a somewhat global distribution, eh?