Margaret Stutt has recorded and performed as Pezzettino and ZETI since 2008, emerging from the Milwaukee indie rock scene with features on NPR, WMSE and The Onion’s AV Club. After touring and moving to Brooklyn in 2010—performing at venues like The Pabst Theater and opening for Ween—a psychotic break in 2012 forced her to stop performing live. During recovery, she recorded experimental work as ZETI and later returned as Pezzettino, gaining national press with its 2019 release. She is now recording a double LP as ZETI and performing again for the first time in 15 years from a place of stability.
This new body of work is deeply influenced by her Soto Zen practice, reflecting on form and formlessness, individual ego vs. universal identity, boundlessness, humility and “nothing special” alongside high ceremony and intention. Where her previous work centered on individual experience, she now views this music as pieces that could serve others—honey to wounds, nourishing light and compost for inevitable thorns and brambles—spanning minimalism, spoken word, folk and exuberant song.
