ROSGOS
indie rock / avant folk
Get ready for a journey into the darkest sides of human heart. Between post-grunge memories, new wave atmospheres and southern rock vibes, RosGos paints a landscape where you could easily meet the ghosts of Mark Lanegan and Layne Staley killing time together.
Behind the moniker is Maurizio Vaiani, former frontman of the band Jenny’s Joke. His first solo album was Canzoni nella notte. But it’s Lost In The Desert where RosGos really finds his dimension, between tormented folk ballads and dark electric rides over the desert dust.
His new album Circles is a gothic trip inspired by Dante’s Inferno. Circles has nine songs, each one set in a Hell’s circle. For the first time, RoGos music flirts with electronic beats and glitch overtones. The album was promoted with two music videos, connected as a single plot.
My music is a painting of the darkest night. Hidden in a corner there's usually a small door. Once I'm in, I find everything I need.
RosGos is recording his fourth album.
A beautiful gatefold jacket with 4 printed cardboard panels with lyrics + printed CD + BL card
In This Noise is a stripped-down album where silence weighs as much as sound. With just voice, an old acoustic guitar, and sparse, haunting textures, RosGos — the project of Maurizio Vaiani — abandons the layered arrangements of the past for a raw, desolate avant-folk.
Recorded live in only five days at Andrea Liuzza’s woodland studio, the album captures an unfiltered intimacy: keyboards and samples that fracture space instead of filling it, and sudden guitar distortions by Massimo Valcarenghi cutting through the void. The spirit of In This Noise recalls Mark Lanegan and Elliott Smith — dark, fragile, and painfully human.