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JoyCut is a creative music outpost formed in Bologna. After some sonic exploration of early recordings JoyCut’s most distinctive sound bore its true fruits with the 2011 release “GhostTreesWhereToDisappear”. The 2013 follow up “PiecesOfUsWereLeftOnTheGround” saw the band on a seemingly never-ending tour of over 300 dates across North America, Asia and Europe, culminating in a Top 5 European Talent Exchange Programme [ETEP / Eurosonic] position.

In 2014 they are asked by VISA to write the music for the Football World Cup in Brazil to represent Italy and in 2017 they made their debut at the Biennale di Venezia with their “Opera” in six acts; K O M O R E B I: a soundtrack tribute to Japan.

Whilst preparing this new work, they were invited by Robert Smith to the 25th anniversary of the Meltdown Festival in London for which Mr. Smith himself was the Artistic Curator. The invitation, as the headliner at the historic Purcell Room inside the Southbank Centre, on the opening day of the Festival, 15th June 2018, became “JoyCut | Robert Smith’s Meltdown - OneStepCloserToTheMoon” a documentary, which was screened at a number of International Film Festivals.

The band's philosophy, which has always been linked to environmental issues, celebrated the #Clash4Climate, the international day dedicated to the Climate Crisis, on 7th February 2020, via KEXP Radio.

On 5th June 2022 , JoyCut released ‘TheBluWave - TimesWhenSilenceIsAPoem - TheIceHasMelted – AndBleedingGlaciersFormOurTears’, their fourth and most well-received album. The following year they performed at Auditorium Manzoni in Bologna with a 50-piece Philharmonic Orchestra, a sold out show of two and a half hours. A huge production whose contents spread a profound and urgent message; highlighting the fall of human values, starting with a narrative voice playing the extract from “The Obsolescence Of Man” by Günther Anders, screening ferocious images from animal intensive farming, scoring bloody Anthropocene’s scenes, war crimes and human rights violations and underlining desperately the current inexplicable madness of human domination.