COMPACT MOROBOSHI: Out on DD the LP "Compact Moroboshi"

COMPACT MOROBOSHI by compactmoroboshi

The COMPACT MOROBOSHI project is officially based in Livorno (Tuscany, ITA), but it’s connected with members in Milan and London.

The band consists of a group that blends visual arts, punk, and electro. The founding members are three musicians who are also DJs. They met while working as DJs and joined their efforts to put together an experimental band in which they now play other instruments and produce samples and computer-assisted compositions.

This has yielded a blend of punk, grunge, and electronic music; as well as pop and rock.

The founders are Giacomo Iasilli, Alessandro Quaglierini and Michael Rotondi, playing guitar, bass, drum machine, sampler, synthesizers and singing.

The band immediately began recording. They compose during the recording sessions and rehearse what they have recorded. The members email each other their pieces to exchange ideas. They perform at 2 a.m. in the clubs and in visual arts performance/installation settings.

The bands that have inspired the group are many and diverse: Ramones, Nirvana, Justice, Daft Punk, Peaches, Le Tigre, Eagles of Death Metal, and Sex Pistols. The most appropriate definition of the genre is electro-clash.

In May 2011, their first CD was released. It was self-produced with the sponsorship of Tacoma Arte, a contemporary art company that deals in low-cost works. The work has been recorded and mixed by Compact Moroboshi at PAM Studio (Livorno, ITA) and mastered by Justin Carl Perkins at Mystery Room Studio (Milwaukee, U.S.A.).

The name of the band was Michael Rotondi’s idea, but it soon became a threesome project, therefore a full-fledged band.

Compact Moroboshi is a compound name. Compact refers to a CD (the 3 founding members refer to themselves as CJs, compact jockeys), a tribute to their prediliction for CD sets. Moroboshi is dedicated to Japanese manga, which invaded Italian television in the 1980s. Ataru Moroboshi is Lamù’s boyfriend. Lamù is the beautiful alien who lands on the earth to look for a husband. She is a flying heroine, sexy and ruthless, of the cartoon saga. She was successively animated by Rumiko Takahashi.

18/05/11

Out on DD the LP "Compact Moroboshi"

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