With significant involvement in a variety of projects documented for AltrOck and its own sister label, Fading Records, Milan-based composer/guitarist Francesco Zago could draw from a roster of several notable musicians for his Clear Days ensemble, which released an eponymous album on AltrOck in past due 2013. Documented in Milan …

Italian producer, DJ, and audio engineer Nino Pedone produces abrasive, industrial-influenced experimental techno beneath the name Shapednoise. Pedone started making music while learning audio anatomist in Milan, and his initial tracks had been released digitally by Pfirter’s MindTrip Music this year 2010. After shifting to Berlin in 2011, he began …

Placing a 21st century spin in the appear of classic ’70s prog rock and roll, the Italian group Wii Sign emerged together after Marcello Marinone, producer and mind from the Milan-based avant-prog AltrOck label, and two from the label’s major musicians, guitarist Francesco Zago and keyboardist Paolo “Ske” Botta, made …

Using a band name produced from Italo Svevo’s 1923 book whose title translates from Italian into English as Zeno’s Conscience, the Genoa, Italy-based prog rock-band La Coscienza di Zeno was formed in 2007 by singer Alessio Calandriello, bassist Gabriele Guidi Colombi, drummer Andrea Orlando, and guitarist Matteo Malvezzi. Subsequently, keyboardists …

Philadelphia’s Hop Along meld the captivating, idiosyncratic vocals of vocalist/songwriter/guitarist Frances Quinlan with large dosages of sincerity and explosiveness to create a fly-by-the-seat-of-your-pants indie rock and roll. The group metamorphosed from Quinlan’s quirky, lo-fi indie folk single project known as Hop Along, Queen Ansleis, which released one recording, Freshman Yr, …

Emerging as a completely shaped enigma from her local New Zealand, Lorde tapped into an untouched good of alienation, getting the poster kid for a era who discovered refuge through the eternal more than the 2010s by submerging themselves in moody artwork. “Royals,” the strike single that produced her a …

Stripping the annals of glam rock and roll for parts and using what’s still left to create a new souped-up rock and roll & roll piece of equipment, Giuda are an Italian rock-band whose songs combine the hard-stomping appear of “rubbish shop glam” works like Slade, Mud, as well as …

Italian rappers Gemitaiz (given birth to Davide De Luca) and Madman (given birth to Pierfrancesco Botrugno) were founded as single artists if they aligned to record the 2011 mixtape Haterproof. Both became an excellent match, plus they adopted up in 2012 with Detto, Fatto, an EP which they were became …

Elevated in Florence, Italy, Italian harpsichordist and organist Simone Stella analyzed with many experts from the keyboard, including Lot Koopman, Ludger Lohmann, Man Bovet, Francesco Cera, Giancarlo Parodi, Stefano Innocenti, Klemens Schnorr, and Monika Henking, amongst others. The champion of organ contests in Lucca and Pistoia, Stella offers documented for …

Formed in the wintertime of 2009, Sainthood Reps perform a moody mixture of post-grunge, hard rock and roll, and post-hardcore. Co-founders Francesco Montesanto and Derrick Sherman was raised collectively in Long Isle, NY, where they created a mutual desire for rings like Mogwai, Fugazi, and Explosions in the Sky. When …