Skiantos / MONO TONO

Spittle Records present a reissue of Skiantos’s Mono Tono, originally released in 1978. In 2010, Freak Antoni, the undisputed leader of Skiantos, received the prestigious “Premio Tenco” award in honor of his incredible career as leader of one of the most emblematic groups in Italian rock. Often mislabeled “demented-rock”, Skiantos were in reality an exception to the rule. This reissue of their second album is, therefore, a road to understanding to what degree rock music was putty in the hands of this band from Bologna who, away from cumbersome references to British and American rock, chose to follow their own path to originality. Their youthful and unprejudiced energy together with the personality of great thinkers became an oft-debated manifesto, but one that was destined to maintain its importance in the years to come. The album’s cover art, picturing an enormous dinosaur destroying a building, is testimony to their ironic, but biting attack on ins

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Aggiornato il 08/06/2026