Showing posts with label italy. Show all posts
Showing posts with label italy. Show all posts

port-royal - Dying in Time

port-royal is an Italian band formed in the summer of 2000 in Genoa. They play a dreamy, heady, melancholic, wide music on the border among electronica, ambient, shoegaze with some dance elements. "Dying in Time" was released in 2009 at n5MD. A brilliant album!

Artist: port-royal
Album: Dying in Time
Year: 2009
Genre: electronica, ambient, shoegaze

Tracks:
1. Hva (Failed Revolutions)
2. Nights in Kiev
3. Anna Ustinova
4. Exhausted Muse/Europe
5. I Used to Be Sad
6. Susy: Blue East Fading
7. The Photoshopped Prince
8. Balding Generation (Losing Hair as We Lose Hope)
9. Hermitage Pt. 1
10. Hermitage Pt. 2
11. Hermitage Pt. 3

Official Website
Last.fm
MySpace

Buy from n5MD records.
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edPorth - Saying vamos and thinking let's go

edPorth (aka Patrizio Piastra from Italy) is an electronic and instrumental solo-project for post-rock followers, glitch maniacs, ambient dreamers and lap-pop fans. This is his debut album, availabl for free download. Very good!

Artist: edPorth
Album: Saying vamos and thinking let's go
Year: 2010
Genre: electronica, ambient, post-rock, instrumental

Tracks:
1. Eighteen Degrees Below The Horizon
2. Kreuzberg And The Sun
3. Saying Vamos And Thinking Let’s Go
4. Meeting At The Utility Pole
5. Kadievka
6. Your Sand
7. Long Exposure

Last.fm
MySpace

Download for free (or buy the physical CD)
<a href="http://edporth.bandcamp.com/album/saying-vamos-and-thinking-lets-go">Eighteen degrees below the horizon by edPorth</a>

Eimog - Scenario

Eimog is a post rock band formed in Agrigento, Italy, in 2006. Since their first live appearances, they have been steadily attracting the attention of both audience and critics by staging awe-inspiring, emotionally transcendent atmospheric performances. This is their first full-length album, released in 2009. Although their music does not really offer something new, it is still the kind of emotional, beautiful post-rock music that most of us loved. Recommended!

Artist: Eimog
Album: Scenario
Year: 2009
Genre: post-rock, instrumental

Tracks:
1. Saved By Thirteen
2. Until Death Do Us Part
3. Jana
4. Building Empires Upon This Landscape
5. May Tries To Be June
6. Madre

Last.fm
MySpace

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Pertegò – Hjarta

Pertegò is a four-piece artistic project from Piacenza, Italy. Their music is influenced by "northern-ambient sounds", and blends elements from post-rock and cinematic music. This is their first album (after their demo), released in 2008. Really beautiful music!

Artist: Pertegò
Album: Hjarta
Year: 2008
Genre: post-rock, ambient, instrumental, cinematic

Tracks:
1. Hjarta
2. Bideri
3. E/Pallatio
4. Summer Night Games
5. Dova
6. Dance
7. Vigo
8. Bideri Evo FF

Last.fm
MySpace

The album is sold out. Go here for other releases.
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Giardini di Mirò - Il Fuoco

Giardini di Mirò is one of the best post-rock bands and their 2001 debut is one of my favourite post-rock albums. This album is a beautiful soundtrack for “Il Fuoco”, a 1916 Italian silent movie directed by Giovanni Pastron. An excellent combination of post-rock, electronic and ambient music!

Artist: Giardini di Mirò
Album: IlFuoco
Year: 2009
Genre: post-rock, ambient, experimental, electronica
Similar: Giardini di Mirò - Rise and Fall of Academic Drifting

Tracks:
1. La favilla 1
2. La favilla 2
3. La favilla 3
4. La favilla 4
5. La favilla 5
6. La favilla 6
7. La favilla 7
8. La vampa 1
9. La vampa 2
10. La vampa 3
11. La cenere 1
12. La cenere 2

Official Website
Last.fm
MySpace

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Neil on Impression - L'oceano delle onde che restano onde per sempre

Neil On Impression is an Italian instrumental post-rock outfit blending dynamic explosive guitar, piano and drum workouts with epic string arrangements. Violin and trumpet give an amazing feeling as well. This is their second album and is absolutely brilliant! Get it now!

Artist: Neil on Impression
Album: L'oceano delle onde che restano onde per sempre
Year: 2008
Genre: post-rock, instrumental

Tracks:
1. Irlanda
2. Barone
3. Il Faro E La Barena
4. Il Giardino Dei Riflessi
5. Glarontrlkla
6. Centimetri Davanti All’orizzonte
7. I Deserti Si Muovono
8. La Città Del Possible
9. Perde Pezzi Di Sé
10. Nella Tempesta Di Aquiloni
11. Eserciti Di Carta Volgono A Oriente
12. Parata Per Quatro Addii

Official Website
Last.fm
MySpace (buy from here)

Check the comments to listen before you buy.

Arctic Plateau - On A Sad Sunny Day

Arctic Plateau is the solo project by Gianluca Divirgilio from Rome, Italy. His music is a combination of post-rock and showgaze with some fantastic epic and dark parts. This is his debut album. Really good!

Artist: Arctic Plateau
Album: On A Sad Sunny Day
Year: 2009
Genre: post-rock, shoegaze, indie

Tracks:
1. Alive
2. On A Sunny Day
3. Lepanto
4. Ivory
5. In Epica Memories
6. Amethyst to #F
7. Iceberg Shoegaze
8. Coldream
9. Eight Years Old
10. Aurora in Rome
11. In Time

Last.fm
MySpace

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French Teen Idol - El Siete Es La Luz

French Teen Idol is an instrumental solo-project by the Italian artist Andrea Di Carlo. Layers of strings, guitars, piano melodies and glitchy beats harmoniously blend, creating cinematic landscapes, dreamy atmospheres, and striking crescendos. Lovers of Sigur Ros, M83, God Is An Astronaut and The Album Leaf may be interested in FTI's musical proposal. French Teen Idol released his self-titled debut album in 2005 at the Canadian netlabel Nishi, which can be downloaded for free at archive.org. His second full length album, released in 2007 by the post-rock netlabel Lost Children, is also available for free download. This is his third release, slightly more guitar-oriented. Fantastic album! Highly recommended!

Artist: French Teen Idol
Album: El Siete Es La Luz
Year: 2009
Genre: post-rock, instrumental, electronica, ambient

Tracks:
1. Rome Shrugged
2. I Want George Soros
3. War Is Kind
4. Fragile Chords
5. The Constant
6. Last Train to Santiago
7. El siete es la luz
8. Prendre son temps

Official Website

Last.fm
MySpace

French Teen Idol's music is available for free streaming here.
Please support this artist! Buy from here.
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Luigi Rubino - A Theme For The Moon

Luigi Rubino is an Italian pianist, also member of Ashram. This is his debut solo album, released earlier this year, which features incredibly delicate, symphonic orchestrations. The sounds of piano, violin and cello create an emotional nostalgic atmosphere. Beautiful!

Artist: Luigi Rubino
Album: A Theme For The Moon
Year: 2009
Genre: neo-classical, instrumental

Tracks:
1. Last dance
2. Nostalgie
3. Fragments
4. Les larmes d'automne
5. Voice in the eyes
6. Every desire
7. Melancholic Lisbon
8. Before love
9. Glace of dust
10. Behind the clouds
11. D'Inverno
12. He is her

Last.fm
MySpace

Please support this artist! Buy from Prikosnovénie label.
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Il Cielo di Bagdad - Export for Malinconique

Il Cielo di Bagdad is a post-rock band from Aversa, Italy. They play ambient/moody-instrumental music influenced by Sigur Ros. Really beautiful!

Artist: Il Cielo di Bagdad
Album: Export for Malinconique
Year: 2008
Genre: post-rock, instrumental, ambient

Tracks:
1. Stanno tutti bene
2. A Day Of Wool
3. First Light Of Morning
4. Export For Malinconique
5. Save Your Forest
6. Mr. Butterfly
7. L’ultimo gesto
8. Magic Bus
9. Sunday Afternoon

Last.fm
MySpace

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En Plein Air - L'alba Irradia L'inutile Parola

En Plein Air is a post-rock band from Rome, Italy, that combines the post-rock guitar sound with the melodic, melancholic sound of violin and cello. Their debut EP is simply astounding. Highly recommended!

Artist: En Plein Air
Album: L'alba Irradia L'inutile Parola
Year: 2009
Genre: post-rock

Tracks:
1. L’alba
2. Irradia
3. L’inutile
4. Parola

En Plein Air @ Fluttery Records
Last.fm
MySpace

Please support this band. Buy from CB Baby.
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Giardini di Mirò - Rise and Fall of Academic Drifting


Giardini di Mirò is a post-rock band from Reggio Emilia, Italy. This their first official album released in 2001, one of my favourite post-rock albums. Excellent band. Highly recommended!

Artist: Giardini di Mirò
Album: Rise and Fall of Academic Drifting
Year: 2001
Genre: post-rock, instrumental

Tracks:
1. A new start (for swinging shoes)
2. Pet life saver
3. The beauty tape rider
4. Trompso is OK
5. Pearl Harbor
6. Little victories
7. Penguin serenade
8. Rise and fall of academic drifting

Official Website
Last.fm
MySpace

Please support this band. Buy from Homesleep Records (9.95 EUR including worldwide delivery)
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