Cristiano Pizzuti vocals, guitars, piano, lap steel, organ, banjo, harmonica
Fabrizio Lo Cicero drums, percussions, backing vocals, noises
Roberto Ventimiglia guitars, banjo, lap steel, mandolin, piano
Massimo Gresia bass & coffee machine
Alessio Guzzon trumpet on "In Your Time of Need"
è possibile risparmiare le spese di spedizione e trovare una copia di Out for the Weekend presso
Billy's Bones Records, via degli Ulivi 46 - Aprilia, LT
Band Info
Se esistesse un modo per raccontare i Desert Motel, sarebbe una specie di strada che attraversa quindici anni di band formate e sciolte. Una strada secondaria, un po' nascosta e dimenticata, discontinua, a volte sterrata, a volte a tre corsie. Una strada che - in ogni caso - passate le canzoni, e i compagni di viaggio, passati i locali e le piazze, si fermerebbe sotto il portico di un edificio sperduto in mezzo al nulla, con un ridicolo, enorme, elefante rosa di cartapesta come insegna. Vecchi amici, seduti a suonare canzoni sopravvissute alla polvere, alla strada e al tempo.
From 1994 to 2006 Cristiano Pizzuti (voice, guitar) and Fabrizio Lo Cicero (drums), started playing together in several bands in Aprilia, a little town in the south centre of Italy, between Rome and Latina, where they grew up and knew each other as children.
On October 2006, they felt the need to record all those songs written and left aside waiting for the right time. And the right moment came as Roberto Ventimiglia (guitar) and Massimo Gresia (bass) joined the band.
Desert Motel grew up from the common passion for the indie sound, passing through a wide range of influences. Folk, new acoustic movement, brit and european indie, lo-fi, UK and US rock, 70's songwriting, soft grunge, new psychedelia, 90s americana and so on.
The early recording sessions started in January 2007 For these takes, they chose to contain the use of digital recording, opting for an analogic approach as much as possible, in search of a warmer and vintage sound. The recordings took a month, and restarted then in April.
On the 13th June they released “Out For the Weekend”, a fully self-produced 7 track EP.
Actually the band is about to complete the recording of their first full lenght, probably out at the end of 2009 summer.
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