Friday 23 January 2009

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! :-)

Friday 16 January 2009

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

Wednesday 7 January 2009

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!

Tuesday 6 January 2009

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