Around here: Laura Loriga:piano and voice, Neel Hammond:violin, Kenny Annis:stand up bass, Drew Pearson:drums, Mike Fonte:guitar.
In Italy: Francesco Begnoni:guitar, Zeus Ferrari: drums, Stefano Michelotti: accordion, flute, sansula, mouth harp, dulcimer, Tiziano Bianchi:trumpet, Luca Marani:he wrote and plays guitar in long lifting road, Riley Sorrells: saxophone, Gian Andrea Caruso: violin.
Precious musicians and friends who played in the cd:
Enzo Cimino:bells, drums and sound engineer; Adriano Modica: guitar, bass, glockenspiel, steps and little monsters phone voices;Elisabeth Mc. Dowell: voices in Moth; Ulisse Mazzagatti: guitars in Oberkampf; Daniele Calandra: clarinets and trumpets in Moth.
Artwork: Amir Mogharabi
Influences
meredith monk, moondog, nico, victoria spivey, bille holiday, maria callas, cat power, jeff buckley, syd barrett, alan lomax, larkin grimm, DM Stith, orchestra di piazza vittorio, six organs of admittance, rachel's, lhasa de sela, robert wyatt, king crimson, animal collective, labraford, hope for a golden summer, daniel johnston, ikue mori, vashti bunyan, a hawk and a hawksaw, john cale, grizzly bear, shins, nina simone, amon tobin, chet baker, nick drake, noe venable, slint, jose gonzalez, ramona cordova, lotte lenya and kurt weill, yo la tengo, john zorn, sonic youth, mazzy star, leonard cohen, marc ribot, akron family, animal collective, win mertens, mark lanegan, morphine, fabrizio de andre', coil, renato carosone, frank zappa, whiletheysleep..,nick cave and birthday party, mary timony, tom waits, liars, june of '44, spezza rotto, shipping news, s.t.p., alice in chains, jennifer gentle, jim o' rourke, silver apples, ulan bator, caboto, vri-il, don caballero, battles, p.j. harvey, josephine foster, michael nyman, luca marani, nancy sinatra, tori amos, devendra banhart, demetrio stratos, Erick Satie, Claude Debussy. Francesca Woodman e Julio Cortazar. Pedro Salinas e Jacques Prevert. Amedeo Modigliani. Pat O' Shea. Colette e Emil Cioran. Kerouac e Ferlinghetti. Sylvia Beach e the lost generation. La isla del barco de illusion. Dried flowers.
Sounds Like
Press Agency: Five Roses Press
Distribution: Audioglobe
Edizioni: Warner Chappell Italy
Online Distribution: Ioda
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Mimes of Wine were born on a cold night of winter 2005 when Amir made a beautiful drawing and Laura decided to keep it for a name and a vest.
She wrote all the songs in the last three winters, between California, Bologna, and Paris. The day she finally recorded them, some of her friends have been really precious to her, becoming this way Mimes of Wine with her and Amir.
She is particularly grateful to Enzo, Luca, Gian Andrea, Daniele, Adriano, and Elisabeth, for their continuous presence, help, and contribution. Also, she played with Francesco and Zeus, whom she really likes.
Now Laura is playing around with a ghost violin, and a ghost stand up bass.
We hope to see you soon, thank you for reading,
Mimes of Wine