The Real Zenogram

Alternative rock. Four decades of songwriting. The revolution song Brian Eno asked for.

The Real Zenogram is the solo project of a singer-songwriter of Italian origin living in the UK, making alternative rock that shifts between guitar-driven intensity and synth-heavy experimentation. Over forty years, he's developed a strong songwriting voice — much of it shaped by his acoustic guitar, a reliable companion through life changes and moves across countries. His productions began in the cassette 4-track era — a time when you needed wild imagination to make a song spark.

As a solo artist, The Real Zenogram builds songs on contrasts: rawness and melody, intensity and space, tradition and risk. Think Peter Gabriel's adventurous spirit, The Cure's dark textures, and PJ Harvey's turbulent originality — music that draws as much from European literature and cinema as from post-punk and rock. Songs that stay with you, but never by shortcuts and easy formulas.

Project details

"Get Out of Your Bedrooms" started as homework. In a Brian Eno songwriting workshop, Eno set the class a challenge: write a revolution song. The Real Zenogram took him up on it — and asked what revolution even means today. His answer: the fight that matters now is against algorithmic capture. The new tech oligarchy doesn't need to lock anyone up; it only needs us to stay in our bedrooms, phone in hand. The song frames that comfortable passivity as a form of complicity — and calls time on it. "Your future is on earth, not on some phallic rocket. Will we be the ones who break the manacles, or just the ones who forge them?"

It's addressed to young people especially, but not only. The tone is activist rather than poetic — a deliberate turn after the melancholy of his debut.

Sound: Guitar rock with distorted guitars in the vein of early Oasis and a protest-song streak that recalls the Manic Street Preachers. Produced and mixed by the artist in Norwich; mastered by Natalie Bibby at AIR Studios, London. Running time: 3:57.

Release: 27 November 2026.

Previously: "Mirabeau" (December 2025), Guillaume Apollinaire's 1913 poem Le Pont Mirabeau set to vintage synths — a thirty-year loop closed, and a first chapter that reached playlists, radio and press across Europe and North America.

Previous release: Mirabeau

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