Port-royal (band)


port-royal is a Genoa, Italy-based electronica and post-rock band formed in the year 2000 by Attilio Bruzzone and Ettore Di Roberto. Soon after they were joined by Ettore's brother Michele Di Roberto, Emilio Pozzolini, and Giulio Corona. The band's music emphasizes instrumentals over lyrics; a style resembling other instrumentally focused bands, such as Mogwai and M83.
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History

In July 2000, childhood friends Attilio and Ettore from Genoa, Italy, decided to form a band during a party. Their first practice session is Ettore's bedroom which had a piano and an acoustic guitar with a TASCAM 4 Track cassette recorder. In September, Ettore's younger brother and fellow drum player Michele joins the band and finds a name for the project. More sessions take place in the so-called "Saletta", nothing but a basement in the old Genovese city-center. Songs are written and some will be the melodic basis of future tracks, others will be forgotten. In February 2001, the band's line up is completed with the arrival of Emilio Pozzolini, a friend and schoolmate. All 4 port-royal members come from the very same high school, «Liceo Classico Statale "C. Colombo"». Throughout the years, the band would experience a shift in band members, but the music would always preserve the same rigorous attitude and unique style, granted by experimenting a lot and mixing together various genres without never being swallowed up in one single direction/genre.
In the last 10 years, port-royal experienced an extensive live activity together with the production of all their major works: they have been playing in all Europe, former Soviet Union, former Yugoslavia and the United States.

Band members

Current members

  • Attilio Bruzzone 2000–Present
  • Ettore Di Roberto 2000–Present
  • Emilio Pozzolini 2001–Present

Past members

  • Michele Di Roberto 2000-2005
  • Giulio Corona 2003-2008
  • Sieva Diamantakos 2007–2014

Discography

LPs

  • Flares
  • Afraid To Dance
  • Flared Up - Remixes
  • Magnitogorsk - split LP with Absent Without Leave, 4 tracks each artist
  • Dying In Time
  • 2000-2010: The Golden Age Of Consumerism
  • Where Are You Now
  • 'You Ware Nowhere - Remixes'''''

EPs

  • Kraken EP
  • Honved EP
  • Anya: Sehnsucht EP
  • Balding Generation
  • Afterglow EP w/ Millimetrik

Compilations

  • Bias Illumination Over Diffracted Hearts
  • Milk In My Cup
  • Losing Today
  • The Wire Tapper
  • First Past and the Post
  • Zenatron
  • These Waves
  • Let's Talk About Muerte Pop
  • I Am You Are Me - Millimetrik Remixes & Unreleased
  • Chat Blanc 3rd Anniversary Compilation
  • Festival Elektroni Septième Édition
  • Little Darla Has A Treat For You Vol. 25 - Endless Summer 2007-08
  • Lost Days, Open Skies And Streaming Tides - Manual Rarities & Remixes
  • Treatment Effects
  • Merry6mas 2007
  • We Believe Vol. 2
  • PostRockNotes.com Compilation
  • Alternative Trippin Vol. 2
  • Northwest Passage's New Era - Millimetrik Album
  • Tympanik Audio's Emerging Organisms vol. 4
  • Dark Side of Pop
  • ''AMBIELOGUE - Chapter I''

Remixes