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The main idea lying behind our music is trying to explore different genres while keeping our own style. Over the years, we've used sound sources as diverse as samples, violin, vocals, guitars, bass, flute, tablas, ocarina, theremin, harmonic chant, vibraphone, silence, reverb, harmonica, trumpet, balafon, e-bow, electronics, maracas, marranzano, tapes, percussion, banjo.

Our CDs have had very good reviews, and the wide range of bands and genres quoted as influences is evidence of our 360° search for originality with a view towards tradition. Minimalism, post rock, experimental guitar ambient music, psychedelic folk and kraut rock have all been mentioned to describe our music.

But we believe there are a lot more. Please check it out.

Adriano Elia | Paolo Marcellini

Here is a playlist of the songs we happened to listen to more frequently over the last months.

Playlist July/December 2010:

Adriano:

Timber Timbre: Magic Arrow (CD Timber Timbre, 2009)
Benoit Pioulard: RTO (CD Lasted, 2010)
Johnny Cash: Redemption Day (CD American VI: Ain't No Grave, 2010)
The Books: Free Translator (CD The Way Out, 2010)
Isobel Campbell and Mark Lanegan: Sunrise (CD Hawk, 2010)
The Chap: We Work in Bars (CD Well Done Europe, 2010)
Daft Punk: End of Line (CD Tron Legacy, 2010)
Arcade Fire: Ready to Start (CD The Suburbs, 2010)
Neil Young: Love and War (CD Le Noise, 2010)
Swans: My Birth (CD My Father Will Guide Me..., 2010)
John Grant: It's Easier (CD Queen of Denmark, 2010)
Al Green: Lay it Down (CD Lay it Down, 2008)
Brian Eno: Emerald and Lime (CD Small Craft on a Milk Sea, 2010)
King Midas Sound: Cool Out (CD Waiting For You, 2009)

Records of the year

Neil Young: Le Noise

Benoit Pioulard: Lasted

Woven Hand: The Threshingfloor

John Grant: Queen of Denmark

The Chap: Well Done Europe

Liars: Sisterworld

Paolo:

Arcade Fire: Ready to Start (CD The Suburbs, 2010)
Neil Young: Love and War (CD Le Noise, 2010)
Swans: No Words No Thoughts (CD My Father Will Guide Me..., 2010)
Harvestman: CD Trinity, 2010)
Earth: CD Angels of Darkness, Demons of Light, 2010)
James Blackshaw: CD All is Falling, 2010)
Brendan Perry: Wintersun (CD Ark, 2010)
Natural Snow Buildings: Our Man From Centauri (CD The Centauri Agent, 2010)
Philip Jeck: CD An Ark for the Listener, 2010)
Caribou: Sun (CD Swim, 2010)
Current 93: Tank of Flies (CD Baalstorm Sing Omega, 2010)
Isengrind: (CD Modlitewnik, 2010)
The Third Eye Foundation: Standard Deviation (CD The Dark, 2010)
Eluvium: (CD Similes, 2010)
Sharon Krauss: (CD The Woody Nightshade, 2010)

Records of the year

Swans: My Father Will Guide Me Up a Rope to the Sky

Harvestman: Trinity

Brendan Perry: Ark

James Blackshaw: All is Falling

Playlist January/June 2010:

Adriano:

Caribou: Kaili (CD Swim, 2010)
Liars: Scissor (CD Sisterworld, 2010)
Woven Hand: His Rest (CD The Threshingfloor, 2010)
Piero Ciampi: Ha tutte le carte in regola (LP Io e te abbiamo perso la bussola, 1973)
Brendan Perry: Wintersun (CD Ark, 2010)
Serena Maneesh: Candlelighted (CD Serena Maneesh, 2005)
Coil: Ostia (The Death of Pasolini) (LP Horse Rotorvator, 1986)
Coil: Babyfood (CD Unnatural History III, 1997)
Supersilent: 9.2 (CD 9, 2009)
Baustelle: Le rane (CD I Mistici dell'Occidente, 2010)
Enzo Avitabile: Figliule ca 'nce jate a la Maronne (CD Sacro Sud, 2006)
John Grant: I Wanna Go to Marz (CD Queen of Denmark, 2010)
Jónsi: Tornado (CD Go, 2010)
William Basinski: Vivian & Ondine (CD Vivian & Ondine, 2009)

Paolo:

Six Organs of Admittance (CD Empty the Sun, 2009)
Midlake: Winter Dies (CD The Courage of Others, 2010)
John Grant: I Wanna Go to Marz (CD Queen of Denmark, 2010)
Woven Hand: Sinking Hands (CD The Threshingfloor, 2010)
Coconuts (CD Coconuts, 2010)
David Maranha (LP Antarctica, 2010)
Calibro 35 (CD Ritornano quelli di..., 2010)
Scuba: Latch (CD Triangulation, 2010)
Johnny Cash: Ain't No Grave (CD America VI: Ain't No Grave, 2010)
Aidan Baker: Lifeforms (CD Liminoid/Lifeforms, 2010)
Autechre: Ilanders (CD Oversteps, 2010)
King Midas Sound: Dahlin (CD Waiting For You, 2009)
HTRK: Fascinator (CD Marry Me Tonight, 2009)
Serena Maneesh: Aysha Abyss (CD No. 2: Abyss in B Minor, 2010)

Playlist July/December 2009:

Adriano:

Broadcast and The Focus Group: The Be Colony (CD Investigate Witch Cults of the Radio Age, 2009)
Natural Snow Buildings: Go Away, Disappear (CD The Shadow Kingdom, 2009)
Oneida: I Will Haunt You (CD Rated O, 2009)
At Swim Two Birds: I Must Be Losing You (CD Before You Left, 2009)
Scott Matthew: Every Travelled Road (CD There's an Ocean that Divides…, 2009)
Richard Youngs: Radio Innocents (CD Beyond the Valley of Ultrahits, 2009)
Flaming Lips: Powerless (CD Embyonic, 2009)
Sparklehorse + Fennesz: If My Heart (CD In the Fishtank, 2009)
Hope Sandoval & The Warm Inventions: Satellite (CD Through the Devil Softly, 2009)
Brendan Benson: Gonowhere (CD My Old, Familiar Friend, 2009)
Prefab Sprout: Ride (CD Let’s Change the World With Music, 2009)
Slowdive: Alison (LP Souvlaki, 1993)
Six Organs of Admittance: The Ballad of Charley Harper (CD Luminous Night, 2009)
Massive Attack: Psyche (EP Splitting the Atom, 2009)

Records of the year

Broadcast and The Focus Group: Investigate Witch Cults of the Radio Age

Brendan Benson: My Old, Familiar Friend

Six Organs of Admittance: Luminous Night

Paolo:

Scott Matthew: White Horse (CD There's an Ocean that Divides…, 2009)
Sunn O))): Alice (CD Monolith & Dimensions, 2009)
At Swim Two Birds: No Fear/Dead of Night (CD Before You Left, 2009)
DM Stith: Pity Dance (CD Heavy Ghost, 2009)
Hope Sandoval & The Warm Inventions: Blue Bird (CD Through the Devil Softly, 2009)
Tiny Vipers: Eyes Like Ours (CD Life on Earth, 2009)
Absinthe Minds: (CD The Song of Returning Light, 2009)
Il Teatro degli Orrori: Il Terzo Mondo (CD A Sangue Freddo, 2009)
Isengrind: Journey of the 7 Stars Side B (Cassette Journey of the 7 Stars, 2009)
Gus Gus: Add This Song (CD 24/7, 2009)
Six Organs of Admittance: (CD Luminous Night, 2009)
Riceboy Sleeps: Indian Summer (CD Riceboy Sleeps, 2009)
Gala Drop: Ital (CD Gala Drop, 2009)
Peter Wright: (CD Snow Blind, 2009)
Tara Jane O'Neal: Howl (CD A Ways Away, 2009)

Records of the year

Tiny Vipers: Life on Earth

Peter Wright: Snow Blind

Gus Gus: 24/7

Six Organs of Admittance: Luminous Night

Playlist January/June 2009:

Adriano:

Guido Moebius: Boss Bassa (CD Klisten, 2003)
Benoit Pioulard: Palimend (CD Precis, 2006)
DM Stith: Pity Dance (CD Heavy Ghost, 2009)
Tape: Beams (CD Luminarium, 2008)
Graham Coxon: If You Want Me (CD The Spinning Top, 2009)
Ilya E. Monosov: I'll Live My Life Without Pain (CD Seven Lucky Plays, 2008)
Royksopp: Happy Up Here (CD Junior, 2009)
Diaframma: Neogrigio (LP Siberia, 1984)
Nouvelle Vague: Master and Servant (CD 3, 2009)
Harvestman: The Hawk of Achill (CD In a Dark Tongue, 2009)
Sunn O))): Hunting and Gathering (CD Monoliths & Dimensions, 2009)
Dente: Baby Building (CD Non c'è due senza te, 2007)
Barzin: Queen Jane (CD Notes to an Absent Lover, 2009)
Scott Matthew: Little Bird (CD Scott Matthew, 2008)
Niobe: Silicone Soul (CD Blackbird's Echo, 2009)

Paolo:

Isengrind, Twinsistermoon, Natural Snow Buildings (CD The Snowbringer Cult, 2008)
Barzin: Stayed Too Long in This Place (CD Notes to an Absent Lover, 2009)
Aethenor: III (CD Faking Gold and Murder, 2009)
Harmonic 313: Dirtbox (CD When Machines Exceed Human Intelligence, 2008)
Harvestman: Centre of the World (CD In a Dark Tongue, 2009)
Head of Wantastiquet: La Mauvais Etoile (CD Mortagne, 2008)
MV and EE with the Golden Road: Wheatherhead Hollow (CD Drone Trailer, 2009)
Current 93: 26 April 2007 (CD Aleph at Hallucinatory Mountain , 2009)
Anahita: Velvet Shoon (CD Matricaria, 2009)
Intrusion: Montego Bay (CD The Seduction of Silence, 2009)
White Lies: To Lose My Life (CD To Lose My Life, 2009)
Six Organs of Admittance: Warm Earth, Which I've Been Told (CD Rtz, 2009)
Yeah Yeah Yeahs: Zero (CD It's Blitz, 2009)
Pontiak: Wild Knife Night Night (CD Maker, 2009)
Telefon Tel Aviv: Your Mouth (CD Immolate Yourself, 2009)

Playlist July/December 2008:

Adriano:

Thee Silver Mt. Zion Memorial Orchestra & Tra-La-La Band: 13 Blues for 13 Moons (CD 13 Blues for 13 Moons, 2008)
Josephine Foster: The Garden of Earthly Delights (CD This Coming Gladness, 2008)
Arborea: Red Bird (CD Arborea, 2008)
Broadcast: American Boy (CD Tender Buttons, 2005)
Leila: Mettle (CD Blood Looms & Blooms, 2008)
Woven Hand: The Beautiful Axe (CD Ten Stones, 2008)
Psapp: Fix it (CD The Camel's Back, 2008)
Stefano Rosso: ...e allora senti cosa fò (LP ...e allora senti cosa fò, 1978)
Populous with Short Stories: Heaven Knows (CD Drawn in Basic, 2008)
DJ/Rupture: Ekstrak - Mass Dampers (CD Uproot, 2008)
Ascend: Vog (CD Ample Fire Within, 2008)
Sebastien Tellier: Roche (CD Sexuality, 2008)
Paolo Conte: Psiche (CD Psiche, 2008)
Fuck Buttons: Sweet Love for Planet Earth (CD Street Horrrsing, 2008)

Records of the year

Thee Silver Mt. Zion Memorial Orchestra & Tra-La-La Band: 13 Blues for 13 Moons

Portishead: Third

Fuck Buttons: Street Horrrsing

Paolo:

Au Revoir Borealis: Art of Film (CD Dark Enough For Stars, 2008)
Gotja: Puzzle with a Piece Missing (CD Like Drawing Blood, 2008)
Lulu Rouge: Sweeter Than Sweet (CD Bless You, 2008)
Vinicio Capossela: Parla Piano (CD Da Solo, 2008)
Bachi da Pietra: Dal Nulla nel Nulla (CD Tarlo Terzo, 2008)
Ladytron: Black Cat (CD Velocifero, 2008)
Windy & Carl: La Doleur (CD Songs For the Broken Hearted, 2008)
Troum & Martyn Bates: Mad as the Mist and Snow #2 (CD To a Child Dancing in the Wind, 2006)
Steve Von Till: Clothes of Sand (CD A Grave is A Grim Horse, 2008)
Ilya E. Monosov: Trycicle (CD Seven Lucky Plays..., 2008)
Lucky Dragons: Drinking Dirty Water (CD Dream Island Laughing Language, 2008)
Benoit Pioulard: Ragged Tint (CD Temper, 2008)
Agghiastru: Rosa (CD Incantu, 2007)
Balmorhea: Lament (CD River Arms, 2008)
Nalle: Secret of the Seven Sirens (CD The Siren Wave, 2008)
Sunn O))): Cannon (CD Domkirke, 2002)

Records of the year

Windy & Carl: Songs For the Broken Hearted

Ilya E. Monosov: Seven Lucky Plays...

Earth: The Bees Made Honey in the Lion's Skull

Playlist May/June 2008:

Adriano:

Alexander Tucker: Bell Jars (CD Portal, 2008)
My Bloody Valentine: Soon (EP Glider, 1990)
Indian Jewelry: Temporary Famine Ship (CD Free Gold!, 2008)

Paolo:

Portishead: Machine Gun (CD Third, 2008)
Scorn: Glugged (CD Stealth, 2007)
Killing Joke: Love Like Blood (LP Night Time, 1985)
35007: Tsunami (CD Liquid, 2002)

Playlist March/April 2008:

Adriano:

Portishead: Plastic (CD Third, 2008)
Death in June: Truly Be (CD The Rule of Thirds, 2008)
Elio e le Storie Tese: Suicidio a sorpresa (CD Studentessi, 2008)

Paolo:

P.J. Harvey: White Chalk (CD White Chalk, 2007)
Baustelle: L (CD Amen, 2007)
Earth: Omen and Portents: The Driver (CD The Bee..., 2008)
Gutter Twins: Idle Hands (CD Saturnalia, 2008)

Playlist January/February 2008:

Adriano:

Baustelle: Panico! (CD Amen, 2008)
A Silver Mt. Zion: 1,000,000 Died to Make This Sound (CD 13 Blues for Thirteen Moons, 2008)
P.J. Harvey: Angelene (CD Is This Desire, 1998)
Records of the year
Burial: Untrue
P.J. Harvey: White Chalk
Jesu: Conqueror

Paolo:

Scorn: Lick Forever Dog (EP Lick Forever Dog, 2002)
Godflesh: Don't Bring Me Flowers (LP Pure, 1992)
Fugazi: Steady Diet (LP Steady Diet of Nothing, 1991)
Records of the year
Earth: Hibernaculum
Spokane: Little Hours
Sigur Ros: Hvarf/Heim

Playlist November/December 2007:

Adriano:

Burial: Archangel (CD Untrue, 2007)
P.J. Harvey: Dear Darkness (CD White Chalk, 2007)
Radiohead: House of Cards (CD In Rainbows, 2007)
Richard Youngs: Low Bay of Sky (CD Autumn Response, 2007)
Six Organs of Admittance: Jade Like Wine (CD Shelter from the Ash, 2007)

Paolo:

Radiohead: Bodysnatchers (CD In Rainbows, 2007)
Sigur Ros: Hljómalind (CD Hvarf/Heim, 2007)
Subsonica: Ain’t no Sunshine (CD Controllo del Livello del Rombo, 2003)
Spokane: Leases & Promises (CD Little Hours, 2007)
Sunn 0))) & Boris: The Sinking Belle (Blue Sheep) (CD Altar, 2006)

Playlist September/October 2007:

Adriano:

Caribou: Melody Day (CD Andorra, 2007)
Taken By Trees: Only Yesterday (CD Open Fields, 2007)
Beirut: A Sunday Smile (CD The Flying Club Cup, 2007)
Iron and Wine: White Tooth Man (CD The Shepherd's Dog, 2007)
Circle: Saturnus Reality (CD Katapult, 2007)

Paolo:

Arbouretum: Signposts and Instruments (CD Rites of Uncovering, 2007)
Om: Flight of the Eagle (CD Conference of the Birds, 2006)
Swans: In My Garden (LP Children of God, 1987)
Daniele Sepe: Sammuchella (CD Anime Candide, 2003)
Kina: Questi Anni (LP Se ho vinto se ho perso, 1989)

Playlist July/August 2007:

Adriano:

Ween: Baby Bitch (CD Chocolate and Cheese, 1994)
Stateless: Radiokiller (CD Stateless, 2007)
Daniele Sepe: Sammuchella (CD Anime Candide, 2003)
Traffic: John Barleycorn (LP John Barleycorn Must Die, 1970)

Paolo:

Earth: Coda Maestoso in F (flat) (CD Hibernaculum, 2007)
Jesu: Conqueror (CD Conqueror, 2007)
Boris: Absolutego (CD Absolutego, 1996)
Sleep: Jerusalem (CD Jerusalem, 1998)
Tenhi: Seitsensarvi (CD Airut:Aamujen, 2006)

Playlist May/June 2007:

Adriano:

Arbouretum: Mohammed’s Hex and Bounty (CD Rites of Uncovering, 2007)
Om: On the Mountain at Dawn (CD Variations on a Theme, 2005)
LCD Soundsystem: Someone Great (CD Sound of Silver, 2007)
Earth: Coda Maestoso in F (flat) (CD Hibernaculum, 2007)
Piano Magic: The King Cannot be Found (CD Part Monster, 2007)

Paolo:

Windy & Carl: Undercurrent (CD Depths, 1998)
Current 93: Bind your Tortoise Mouth (CD Black Ships Ate the Sky, 2006)
Tangerine Dream: Rubicon pt. 1 (CD Rubicon, 1975)
Joy Division: Love Will Tear Us Apart (7'', 1980)

Playlist March/April 2007:

Adriano:

Sand: Kendoki (CD The Dalston Shroud, 2007)
Grinderman: No Pussy Blues (CD Grinderman, 2007)
Gudrun Gut: Move me (CD I Put a Record On, 2007)
Klaxons: As Above, So Below (CD Myths, 2007)
Blonde Redhead: Spring and by Summer Fall (CD 23, 2007)
Young Gods: Freeze (CD Super Ready/Fragmenté, 2007)
Jimi Tenor / Kabu Kabu: Anywhere, Anytime (CD Joystone, 2007)
Wild Billy Childish: Joe Strummer’s Grave (CD Punk Rock at the British Legion Hall, 2007)

Paolo:

Grinderman: Grinderman (CD Grinderman, 2007)
Low: Breaker (CD Drums and Guns, 2007)
Jeff Buckley: Dream Brother (CD Grace, 1994)
Talk Talk: Myrrhman (CD Laughing Stock, 1991)
Matt Elliot: Broken Bones (CD Failure Songs, 2006)
Futhark: Kief (demo tape Thiudinassus, 1994)

Playlist January/February 2007:

Adriano:

Low: Breaker (CD Drums and Guns, 2007)
Holden: Sur le pavé (CD Chevrotine, 2006)
Big Sir: Blutrausch (CD Und Die Scheisse Ändert Sich Immer, 2007)
P.G. Six: The End of Winter (CD Slightly Sorry, 2007)
Jesu: Conqueror (CD Conqueror, 2007)
Malcolm Middleton: A Brighter Beat (CD A Brighter Beat, 2007)

Paolo:

Christina Carter: Words Are Not My Words (CD Electrice, 2006)
Scott Walker: Farmer in the Sky (CD Tilt, 1995)
Two Dollar Guitar: 4 o’clock (CD The Wear and Tear of Fear: A Lover’s Discourse, 2006)
A Hawk and a Hacksaw: Song for Joseph (CD The Way the Wind Blows, 2006)
Jesu: Silver (EP Silver, 2006)
Boduf Songs: Great Wolf of No Track (CD Lion Devours the Sun, 2006)

Playlist November/December 2006:

Adriano:

A Hawk and a Hacksaw: The Way the Wind Blows (CD The Way the Wind Blows, 2006)
Part Timer: Thinking, Unthinking (CD Part Timer, 2006)
Lee Hazlewood: My Autumn’s Done Come (CD Air, Late Night Tales, 2006)
Erik Satie: Air du Grand Maître (CD Sonneries de la Rose + Croix, R. De Leeuw, 1980)
EXÙ (demo tape 1993)

Paolo:

Jesu: Your Path to Divinity (CD Jesu, 2005)
The Ivytree: Think to These Things (CD Winged Leaves, 2004)
Espers: Mansfield and Cyclops (CD Espers II, 2006)
Joanna Newsom: Sawdust & Diamonds (CD Ys, 2006)
Jessica Bailiff: If We Could (CD Feels Like Home, 2006)
Lambchop: Prepared (CD Damaged, 2006)
Xela: Linseed (CD The Dead Sea, 2006)
White Magic: Katie Cruel (CD Dat Rosa Mel Apibus, 2006)

Playlist September/October 2006:

Adriano:

Brightblack Morning Light: Star Blanket River Child (CD Brightblack Morning Light, 2006)
P.G. Six: Crooked Way (CD The Well of Memory, 2004)
Hairdoctor: Indian Princess (CD Shampoo, 2006)
Alan Sorrenti: Vorrei incontrarti (LP Aria, 1972)
Kevin Shields: City Girl (CD Soundtrack Lost in Translation, 2003)
Oneida: Happy New Year (CD Happy New Year, 2006)
Pajo: Who’s That Knocking (CD 1968, 2006)
Sparklehorse: Some Sweet Day (CD Dreamt for Light Years in the Belly of a Mountain, 2006)

Paolo:

Michael Cashmore: Vernon Road (CD Sleep England, 2006)
Claudio Rocchi: Sono un uomo (LP Essenza, 1973)
Riccardo Sinigallia: Se potessi incontrarti ancora (CD Incontri a Metà Strada, 2006)
Emiliana Torrini: Nothing Brings Me Down (CD Fisherman's Woman, 2005)
Nine Horses: Darkest Birds (CD Snow Borne Sorrow, 2006)
Traffic: John Barleycorn (LP John Barleycorn Must Die, 1970)
Two Dollar Guitar: The Well Song (CD Let Me Bring You Down, 1996)
Throbbing Gristle: Walkabout (LP 20 Jazz Funk Greats, 1978)

Playlist July/August 2006:

Adriano:

Men at Work: Down Under (LP Business as Usual, 1982)
Donovan: Mad John's Escape (LP A Gift from a Flower to a Garden, 1967)
Blitzen Trapper: Dreamers & Giants (CD Field Rexx, 2004)
Claudio Rocchi: E' per te (LP Essenza, 1973)
Gatto Ciliegia: Dopolavoro Dancing (CD L'Irréparable, 2004)

Paolo:

Johnny Cash: If You Could Read My Mind (CD American V: A Hundred Highways, 2006)
Loren Connors: In The Night (CD Sails, 2005)
Elizabeth Anka Vajagik: Pain (EP Nostalgia/Pain, 2005)
Espers: Dead King (EP The Weed Tree, 2005)
Cowboy Junkies: No More (CD Early 21st Century Blues, 2005)

Playlist June 2006:

Adriano:

Beirut: Brandeburg (CD Gulag Orkestar, 2006)
Thom Yorke: Black Swan (CD The Eraser, 2006)
Six Organs of Admittance: Black Wall (CD The Sun Awakens, 2006)
Adam Green: Pay the Toll (CD Jacket Full of Danger, 2006)
Pearls Before Swine: I Saw the World (LP Balaklava, 1967)

Paolo:

Scott Walker: Cue (CD The Drift, 2006)
Nico: The End (LP The End, 1974)
Current 93: Idumea (vocals by Baby Dee) (CD Black Ships Ate the Sky, 2006)
Baby Dee: The Robin's Song/Morning Fire (CD Live in Turin, 2004)
Tom Waits: Christmas Card from a Hooker in Minneapolis (LP Blue Valentine, 1978)

Playlist May 2006:

Adriano:

Bibio: Quantock (CD Hand Cranked, 2006)
Mogwai: Friend of the Night (CD Mr Beast, 2006)
Fiery Furnaces: Single again (CD EP, 2005)
Current 93: Sunset (CD Black Ships Ate the Sky, 2006)
Broadcast: Corporeal (CD Tender Buttons, 2005)

Paolo:

Fabrizio De Andrè: Il sogno di Maria (LP La buona novella, 1970)
Tenhi: Näkin Laulu (CD Kauan, 1999)
Sunn 0))): Richard (CD 00Void, 2000)
Mogwai: Emergency Trap (CD Mr Beast, 2006)
Leonard Cohen: Bird on a Wire (LP Songs from a Room, 1969)