On the north bank of the wide, fast-flowing stretch of the River Rhine that cleaves Basel in two, a man with a hipster moustache is giving the finger to a building on the other side. This is Tiziano Volante, guitarist with Zeal & Ardor, and he grew up in this well-heeled Swiss city.
“What are you doing?” says Manuel Gagneux, Zeal & Ardor’s eloquent singer, guitarist and chief architect, equally amused and baffled by his bandmate and fellow Basel native’s dramatically performative ire. “These guys aren’t going to know what that is.”
