Geniuser is a collaboration between Giuseppe De Bellis and Michael Allen. They first met in Copenhagen in the summer of 1991, introduced by a mutual friend and shared a love of music and painting and kept in touch throughout the years.

Giuseppe was born in southern Italy, in the small fishing town of Taranto, and spent his formative years in this beautiful remote town building his dreams and planning his escape. In his early twenties he moved to Copenhagen and started making and releasing music under various guises for years.

Michael Allen is London born and bred. A North London boy from the town of Harrow where the Normans built their first church and Henry the VIII studied. It was at the tender age of 16 in 1976 that he saw the Sex Pistols play at the 100 Club, Oxford Street. The next day he formed a band and started something he couldn’t finish. He released his first record a year later with Mark P’s label Step Forward. Then, later on, for English independent label 4AD from 1980 until 1995 with the group The Wolfgang Press.

In the summer of 1998 Giuseppe moved from Copenhagen to London and re-opened communications with Michael but after very little discussion they started to make music together. The Orb had generously given Giuseppe and Michael the loan of their studio in Victoria. They were holed up in the studio for some six months writing material looking to fuse their very different influences into something fresh and worthwhile. The fruit of their labour is the album entitled ‘Mud Black’ under the project name Geniuser.

Geniuser are currently collaborating with English artist Michael Clark on a number of audio visual vignettes.