mr no way

there's a mixtape with my all time favs HERE.

i was checking my old HD and just found this video of me playing mr no in my old bedroom in torino early in the morning (you can tell from my voice).

mixing my new record right now. i'm so excited!

banjo interview here. also check www. differentclassradio. co. uk ... they play some good music and my stuff! :-)

both XL and Wichita tip banjo for 2009 on drowned in sound. hypeing myself makes me feel like i make sense.

so that you know:
- the covers CD is SOLD OUT!!
- the single IS NOT. i think no pain in pop has some copies left. you can order it from their website WWW.NOPAININPOP.COM
i've realized lots of my friends have been downloading my 7". outrageous. goddammit. buy it! :-)

been away

so... i've been away for a while. lots of stuff happening. my first single is finally out. it is apparently going really well. i've heard lots of nice words about it which made me really happy. the single launch at white heat was really good too. thanks a lot to matty, tom and tom, richard and patrick, a grave with no name, radiant dragon and everyone who came down. and, of course, daniel 'lo strato'!! it was nice to do my single launch at white heat. that's were i played my first show 14 months ago. it was quite romantic. like completing a circle... anyway, here some AWESOME photos from the night. right now i'm recording the vocals for the next record. it will be a 12" with 4 songs and a remix i think. yeah, infact some amazing people are remixing mr no.
some london shows coming out and i will tour when the 12" is out. i think it should be out march/april.
if you go HERE you can listen to the 7" and two unreleased banjo songs (an old song called 'dear me' and my first and probably only song in itailan EVER).
some recent press:
More Intelligent Life/The Economist
The Music Magazine
Time Out
Artrocker
This Is Fake Diy
The Pix Zine
Metro
banjo love/A

SINGLE LAUNCH @ WHITE HEAT

COME TO MY SINGLE LAUNCH

BUY MY SINGLE!!
get it from NO PAIN IN POP (single of the week on BOOMKAT and recommended on ROUGH TRADE, PUREGROOVE, NORMAN RECORDS...). DO IT!

end of the year list

- ARTHUR RUSSELL Love Is Overtaking Me
- BEACH HOUSE Devotion
- BENGA Diary Of An Afro Warrior
- THE BUG London Zoo
- DENNIS WILSON Pacific Ocean Blue Re-edition
- ERYKAH BADU New AmErykah, Pt. 1: 4th World War
- FLYING LOTUS Los Angeles
- GANG GANG DANCE Saint Dymphna
- GROUPER Dragging A Dear Deer Up A Hill
- GROUP INERANE Guitars From Agadez (Music Of Niger)
- GROUP DOUEH Guitar Music From The Western Sahara
- HERCULES AND LOVE AFFAIR Hercules and Love Affair
- KASAI ALLSTARS In The 7th Moon
- LIL WAYNE Tha Carter III
- LYKKE LI Youth Novels
- MARK STEWART Edit
- MAX TUNDRA Parallax Error Beheads You
- PAAVOHARJU Laulu Laakson Kukista
- POCAHAUNTED Chains
- PORTISHEAD Third
- Q-TIP Live At The Renaissance
- RICARDO VILLALOBOS Vasco/Enfants
- SCARLETT JOHANSSON Anywhere I Lay My Head
- TIMES NEW VIKING Rip It Off
- TV ON THE RADIO Dear Science
- V/A The Rise Of Jamaican Dancehall Culture
- Finally moving to London
- My new flat/flatmates
- Me turning officially old
- Banjo turning officially one
- Regents Park
- London Zoo
- London Eye on my birthday
- Being a tourist
- Banjo/GF/High Places shows
- Black Dice in Bergen
- Cholsey
- Memories Of Bengal
- Indian food in general
- Noodles
- Work experience failure
- 'No Shows Forever' (even if I couldn't bare the thought of going on first. ha.)
- The dude playing drums on a bike in front of my bedroom window
- Being broke
- The Lake District
- Easyjet loosing all my equipment in Paris
- Driving to Bristol with Elly (taking 5 hours)
- Getting free records
- Grouper late at night
- The launch time Turkish radio
- Banjo in Italy both shows and swimming pool madness
- Cafè Crema
- London music business
- First Banjo recording in a studio
- Mr No

DOWNLOAD BANJO OR FREAKOUT - SILENT NIGHT

Everything Fast EP

DOWNLOAD EVERYTHING FAST EP
I've been away for a bit. Working on lots of new songs/covers/remixes and more. Here's an EP of 5 new songs. I thought they could sound good together. They have all been written/recorded between the last two weeks apart from 'Everything Fast' (early november).
Please play it loud.
Love/A

SINGLE!!!

PRE-ORDER MY SINGLE HERE!!!

RCRD LBL

a new banjo track on RCRDLBL.COM
ENJOY!!

COVERS CD

After I accomplished my mission to record 20 covers I've decided to put them on a CD but then I realized they were too many to fit in just one cd so I've decided to do some (11 tracks including Archangel, All I Need, Cable Dazed, Atlas, back to Black, Cape Cod...) here and some on another CD later.
So, here're they are. Limited to 150 copies, handmade spraypainted freakout artwork.
Paypal £5.
THE CD IS SOLD OUT!!

SPIN MAG

so

i've seen so many owls during the last weekend. it was incredible!
by the way... i tried to re-post the TVOTR cover but got an email from the DMCA aka Digital Millennium Copyright Act that deleted my post and suggested me not to post it again. which means: send me an email if you want the cover and i'll send you a link (BANJOORFREAKOUT@GMAIL.COM).
i'm not going to record covers for a while but i will put my favorite 10 covers on a cd i'll sell at shows.
other news: i've been recording three songs at the XL Studio and had a great time. it was really nice to be there with dayo (recording) and daniel (playing. and when i say playing i mean that guy can play everything!). i'll be adding vocals and recording another song during the next couple of weeks and should have the songs ready to be released soon. going back to norway next week (can't wait!) to play a top line up show with my fav dudes gentle friendly and high places then back to london to play the same lineup at upset the rhythm. then playing dirty bingo @ the macbeth. come! check my myspace for details. my first single 'mr no/someone great' is coming out at the beninning of january 2009. it is official! tobias warwick jones did the artwork and it looks amazing. i'll post it soon. i should be touring around england and maybe europe at some point. let's see what happens!

banjo or radio

BANJO OR FREAKOUT - ALL I NEED (RADIOHEAD COVER)

p.s. radiohead fans, don't hate me!

banjo or youth

Banjo or Freakout - Kissability (Sonic Youth cover)

banjo or vampire

this is quite psychedelic...
Banjo or Freakout – Cape Cod Kwassa Kwassa (Vampire Weekend cover)

PITCHFORK + last shows

last two shows were a bit of a mess. lots of problems with the sound. i'm really sorry if we sucked a bit.
there's a nice banjo feature in pitchfork HERE!!

UPSIDE DOWN EP

for those of you emailing asking for the UPSIDE DOWN EP.
HERE it is.

italia

banjos first italian shows ever were great. grazie!
xx

PLAYING LONDON TOMORROW AUGUST 6TH!!!

the show with YACHT was great but the sound was really shit!
by the way.... had my first real practice in a real practice space today and it was also the first time i played banjo songs with someone else. it was cool.
come to the old queen's head in islington tomorrow! it's gonna be banjo show number 10 and the first one as a duo. i'm really excited. i mean, EXCITED.
other bands playing are male bonding and graffiti island plus young turks dj's and flawless victory dj's. see you there!

oh, here's a song called 'spacemen'. i recorded it 5/6 months ago when i was totally into spacemen 3. it's an ok song. ENJOY.
Banjo or Freakout - Spacemen

xxbanjo

all these new 'punk' bands around make me laugh!

MAPS

a new old song called MAPS. it's the song i use to start my shows most of the times.
DOWNLOAD MAPS

ENJOY.

some words about me:
ONE
TWO
funny.