JOYCUT is a creative music outpost formed in Bologna_
The project is named after the songs ‘Joey’ from Nick Drake’s Time of No Reply and the Pink Floyd’s The Final Cut_

After some sonic exploration of early recordings [Anyflies |EP 2003; AFishCounter |EP 2005; TheStrangeTaleOfMr.Man |EP 2006; TheVeryStrangeTaleOfMr.Man |LP 2007; GhostTrees |EP 2009], JOYCUT’s most distinctive sound bore its true fruits with the 2011 release “GhostTreesWhereToDisappear”_

The 2013 Album “PiecesOfUsWereLeftOnTheGround” took the band to new heights, evidenced by the album's continued success, with a 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_

Unique international result for a totally independent Italian project_
In 2014, MTV Iggy “elected” them as one of the most interesting bands of SXSW;

Nic Harcourt supported them through KCSN radio in Los Angeles, and they are asked by VISA to write the music for the Football World Cup in Brazil to represent Italy_

2015 opens with a busy tour in the United States and Canada that sees them play on more than 70 stages in a year_

With the digital mantra #JoyCutNeverStops the band visited 3 continents, 74 countries, 216 cities, 75 festivals, and headlined 48 concerts in the USA_

In 2016, JOYCUT tours with The Chemical Brothers in Italy_

Following a scintillating TEDx talk and performance in Verona and inspired by their recent vivid tours in the East, JOYCUT made their debut at the Biennale di Venezia in 2017 with their “Opera” in six acts K O M O R E B I: a soundtrack tribute to Japan_

Komorebi is the “distinctive effect of sunlight as it filters through the thin gossamer leaves of trees”_

The sold-out show was a combination of their dramatic music with visual art chapters that created a world to get lost in_

In the autumn of 2018, they enter into the prestigious ITB agency and tour the UK, touching via The Great Escape Festival legendary venues such as O2 Shepherd's Bush Empire and the futuristic Oval Space, the temple of London's electronic avant-garde_

While preparing their new work, they are invited by Robert Smith to the 25th anniversary of the Meltdown Festival in London of which Mr. Smith himself is Artistic Curator_

The invitation, as the headliner at the historic Purcell Room inside the Southbank Center, on the opening day of the Festival, June 15, 2018, is marked by an exhibition that will become “JOYCUT | Robert Smith’s Meltdown - OneStepCloserToTheMoon” a Documentary, that will be screened throughout 2020 by International Film Festivals and will receive awards at the “Wales International Film Festival”, “Doc’n’Roll Film Festival, “Seattle True International Film Festival”_

2019 is the season of International Festivals, the culmination of which will be sharing the stage with The Cure at INmusic in Zagreb_

On 19 January 2020, just a few weeks before the Pandemic occurred, the band plays one of their most memorable concerts, performing in Bologna in front of 40.000 people in support of the magic four free spirit activists called “Le Sardine” [The Sardines] who had built a real and conscientious opposition to the arising populism of the right-wing in the country since that previous summer_

The band's philosophy, which has always been linked to environmental issues, celebrated the #Clash4Climate, the international day dedicated to the Climate Crisis, on 7 February 2020, via KEXP Radio: 24 hours on-air in which Kevin Cole interviewed JOYCUT, drafting an exclusive podcast, whose green statement has become yet another poetic manifesto of the band's sensitivity_

Despite the Pandemic and lockdowns, there have been a couple of meaningful highlights in the background of these difficult times in which life is suspended: participation in the MED “streaming” Festival for Europe and a “real” show “live”, the last one in front of a real -albeit distanced- crowd, in Prato at the “Pecci” amphitheater on July 15_

After finishing mixing the tracks for the New Album throughout these last silent and long months, in response to the severe restrictions applied to the Music Industry and in aid of the live clubs experiencing unprecedented difficulties, JOYCUT decided to act by launching a campaign to raise funds to be donated to those venues_

To support the campaign, on the 1st Day of the New Year, 1/1/2021, the band performs a live stream show called “1+1” | ForTheOnesWhoDreamOfBetterWorlds, devolving 100% of the tickets sold, and playing a two hour show, offering Three Acts, reveling all their New Music from the upcoming Album in two of them_

“1+1” | ForTheOnesWhoDreamOfBetterWorlds becomes a BOOK in photographs, as well as a special Film Version of the entire show _

In the meantime on the palindrome date 12.02 | 20.21, finally and for the first time, “JOYCUT | Robert Smith’s Meltdown - OneStepCloserToTheMoon” lands on TV, being broadcasted, also in Italy, via SkyArts_

On June 12, 2021, exclusively for Record Store Day, ten years after the release of the album"GhostTreesWhereToDisappear", to celebrate its longevity and content - very current - the band release a special limited vinyl edition, with unpublished and rarities from the period 2011_

Brian Eno selects a track from the brand new JOYCUT’s album to be included into his EARTH/PERCENT project whose compilation is released on April 22, 2022_

On 20 May 2022 at the Museum of Modern Art | MAMBO | of Bologna, JOYCUT, as absolute premiere, allows visitors to access a multi-perceptive installation, whose listening to proximity | together with mapping and images | will finally introduce the public to the BLU* JOYCUT_

On June 5th 2022 finally sees the light TheBluWave - TimesWhenSilenceIsAPoem - TheIceHasMelted - AndBleedingGlaciersFormOurTears, fourth work of the band_

After 9 years of assiduous becoming | a new wave | undresses the beach | like snow on disaster_

In the autumn of 2022, unique and monographic European Concerts are held in support of the new publication_

The first part of the tour ends on February 25th in Bologna, at the Estragon Club, with a significant show that in the encores celebrates the tenth anniversary of the album PiecesOfUsWereLeftOnTheGround_

On July 13th an exclusive in-studio performance [of five songs from the TheBluWave Album and an interview] presented by the legendary Kevin Cole at the Seattle Center, appears in the world-renowned Live on KEXP sessions_

Wall Of Humanity is one of the most ambitious project achieved by the band_ On 16th September 2023 they perform at Auditorium Manzoni in Bologna with a 50 pieces Philarmonethic Orchestra, a sold out show of two hours and half_

A huge production whose contents aim to 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_

November sees JOYCUT play 11 European Gigs supporting the excellent and beloved ARCHIVE collective who are promoting their new album “Call To Arms & Angels”, the two bands sharing one of the most beautiful human experience so far_

In December, continuing to celebrate the 10th anniversary of their third studio album, 'POWLOTG”, the band releases, for the very first time, a Double Album Deluxe Set including all of the 15 tracks, in 2 X 12” 180 gram heavyweight random rainbow-coloured eco vinyl_
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*BLU is Believe in Love & Unity | BLU is Brothers Like Us | BLU is our Blu[e]_

ToBeContinued... ForTheOnesWhoDreamOfBetterWorlds_