Summer of my youth is the fruit of a certain opening to pop music sonorities in comparison with Slow Motion’s previous works. The post-wave inspiration with hints of late 80’s/early ‘90’s atmospheres appears in sung tracks or in others where melody is a strong carrying element. The variety of character, style and aesthetics, in balance among electronic and unplugged sonorities and solid sound’s samplings are the co-ordinates in which the artistic creation moves.
Poised on emphasis and minimalism, nostalgic citation and avant-garde, rhythmic construction built according to mathematic rules and melodic sensibility, traditional song’s shape and disintegration of it, the track’s texture is stratified on glitch, microfrequencies and interferences: all this creates deeply evocative complex sound landscapes.
The laptop, used either as a composition tool or as a means of expression during live acts, is the focus of the electronic creative experience and it’s blended with double-bass, analogical and digital synthesizer, marimbas and voice.

Bianca Series
(LP split 300 ltd. white vinyl)
THE BOYLUCAS/LAYER
2004
Cat. LPNUY003

Layer side

Layer is a solo project of a young kid from Rome, whose method based on repeated processings of short compositions for electric guitar, marked by a massive use of delays, effects and various electronic equipment.
Half among the ambient of Labradford and the delicate sketches of Vine Reilly of Durutti Column, his compositions are fragile and impalpable figures that soon get lost in electrostatic fog banks.
Layer's fantastic debut will hand you earthly beings in the faint glimmering world of twilight butterflies where tiny sounds shape goldust rising

THE CIRCLESOUTH
Remind Nothing
2003
Cat. CDNUY010

The circlesouth was born in the fall of 2000.The attempt was to combine the typical sound of an indie-rock's line-up with infuences and characteristic contaminations of electronic instruments.This project comes from the idea of five young guys (the medium age is 22 years) coming from the small but musically prolific city of Pordenone, in the north-east of Italy. The two years's work is collected in their nine tracks-debut album, remind nothing , on disasters by choice.Forty minutes of selected romantic melodies, psychedelic suites, effected guitars, noisy samples, but also percussive drum and basses, obsessive guitar riffs, soft electric pianos, sequencers and piano and voice 's duets. Guest star in this debut is amaury cambuzat, leader of the french-italian band ulan bator ,who lends his voice and a poetic lyric to the song "le couler".Nine tracks in which different attitudes are mixed up, creating an elegant and personal sound.

VERO
Preghiere
2003
Cat. CDNUY009

www.barovero.org

MELODIUM
A slight difference in the air pressure
2002
Cat. CDNUY008

“A Slight Difference In The Air Pressure” is the Melodium second album on Disasters by Choice, in which Laurent Girard confirm his peculiar pop eclectic sound.
… "A melancholic electronica partly built around acoustic elements wrapped
in blankets of analogue wave..." "a play of hidden minimal melodies...".
"...it is simply a blend of classical guitar and piano melodies with electronic sounds and beats…".
The album was recorded between January and April 2001, modified in October 2001 and in July 2002. Since his beginnings Melodium has collaborated with various labels, such as Static Caravan, Active Suspension, Peter i'm flaying.
His debut album on Disasters by Choice, "Quiet Noise Area" (2001), was unanimously acclaimed by the italian and international press, such as Blow Up, Musica, Rumore, Mucchio Selvaggio , Rockerilla , The Wire (UK) and Magic!(FRA), as well as various webzine.

SLOW MOTION
The days of station wagons
2001
Cat. CDNUY007

Free and intimate expressive forms, anomalous electronic music where the digital base is dissolved by the warm and mesmerizing acoustic sound ofdrums and double bass. Delicate samplings and tangled rythmic structures create a perfectly balanced whole, in which extremely different sounds and moods melt together: from ambient to electro-rock, from minimal-techno to house music. Announced by some exciting and promising live performances, "The Days of Station Wagon" is the album which endorses the ultimate maturity of a band with both simple and brilliant intuitions.

MELODIUM
Quiet Noise Area
2001
Cat. CDNUY006

Melodium is the project of a 25 years old french man called Laurent Girard
melodium is in fact a contraction between "melodie" and "medium"
melodium's first release is a 7" on the english "static caravan" label
called "rhythmi"(last year) another 7" should be done really soon on the same label on these two 7" you can find concrete melodies (often sad ones) and weird beats in the CD called "quiet noise area" with the disastersbychoice label, the approach was less electronica, it is simply a blend of classical guitar and
piano melodies with electronic sounds and beats, the whole recorded with few
equipment in a shaft's mind, it is just an experiment and melodium's works
are now much more concerned with electronica.

MICRO:MEGA
Dump
2000
Cat. CDNUY005

Micro:mega is the result of a collaboration between two french musicians : Sylvain Chauveau (keyboard, guitars) and Fred Luneau (guitars, sampler, bass).
This collaboration started in 1998.
A first album ("Photosphere") was released in april 1999 on the french label Noise Museum.
The music of the band is based on soft electronic loops and meditative waves of guitar and organ.
A second album ("Human") will be released in september 2000.
In the new CD "Dump", released by the italian label Disasters By Choice, Micro:mega tries to express another part of their sonic universe in five new pieces.
If the quiet "Touch" and "From the window" use cool jazz and ambient colors, a real rythmic aspect clearly appears on "White sand" and "Built".

AAVV
13 Elements
1999
Cat. CDNUY004

Unreleased tracks from Windsor for the Derby, Ma Cherie For Painting, Loopdrop, Slow Motion, Electroscope, Quint, Fukuyama, Mohagonny, Class, Foehn, Mount Analog, Micromars, Rothko

LE VALVOLE
Le Valvole
1998
Cat. CDNUY003

Spleen-rock? Perthaps. But without any obvious catatonics and narcoleptics! Rather, noise and words, loud guitars and declamed texts.

NAME US YOURSELF
The Phantom of the Opera
1997
Cat. CDNUY002

At the start this is the musical background to the silent movie The Phantom Of The Opera (1925 Rupert Julien). Following the acclaim at Mystfest 96 and demand for recorded memento after each concert. a CD was made with highlights. The orchestration alternates darker tonalities with minimal relief.

SOLAR LODGE
According to the rites of beauty
1996
Cat. CDNUY001

"According To The Rites Of Beauty" is Solar Lodge's second work. They dig up among different turns of electronic misic at the threshold of millennium. It's at once an aggressive, oniric, quivering and meditative music. Their proposal wants to be free from manners. fashions and symbologies; it's a perfect balance among post-industrial, etno-ambient and avant garde rythmics and sonorities.

7" split (ltd. white vinyl)
EJZENSTEJN Analogic/
SLOW MOTION Digital
1999
Cat. LPNUY002

Two different paths seeking further possible misic.