Contrazione has been played on NTS in shows including Italian Masters w/ Lele Sacchi , featured first on 5 June 2020. Songs played include Sbarre.

Contrazione were an Italian punk/ HC band in the early 80's. They made a self released split LP with FRANTI in 1984, and the songs "sbarre" was used on the P.E.A.C.E./War compilation (a double album first released by R Radical Records, the label run by MDC's Dave Dictor, in association with the San Francisco Bay Area punk fanzine Maximum RocknRoll).

In 1985 they released another LP "cine occhio- storia e memoria" on Blu Bus Dischi records (the record label of Kina, from Aosta in northern Italy, who I think were created from a few members of Contrazione. Kina later split and became FRONTIERA).