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Porcelain Raft (Mauro Remiddi) is hard at work on his follow up to 2012’s Strange Weekend, but in his spare time, he put together this excellent instrumental EP. Remiddi describes the process below…

“In September, I started recording my new album and the first thing I decided to do was sell all of my instruments. I didn’t want this record to sound anything like Strange Weekend so, to avoid any temptation, I sold almost everything…and got few new things. Most importantly, I got a modular synth.

I was spending my days recording a new record in the studio, and at nights found myself jamming on the modular more and more, obsessively recording everything I was doing.
I remember reading the sentence “Language is often a defense” and wanting to follow it, like a game.

The result of these late night sessions is an instrumental EP called Silent Speech, I hope you enjoy it.”
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Porcelain Raft is the brain child of Italian born Mauro Remiddi. Over the last couple of years, Remiddi teased us with some impressive EPs and singles, and toured with the like of The Antlers and Youth Lagoon. Now as he gears up for the release of his debut LP Strange Weekend (out tomorrow, 1/24, via Secretly Canadian!), he’s touring Europe, including a couple runs with M83 and Smith Westerns (dates).

I’m not exactly sure how Remiddi has managed to craft such a dreamy and visceral sound, but i’m sure it has something to do with his 27 years of travels across Europe, from his native Italy to London; of caravaning with the Berlin Youth Circus playing traditional gypsy Klezmer music; or maybe reinterpreting traditional music in North Korea; and maybe even his stint playing piano for an Off Broadway tap dance show. Whatever it is, I don’t really care, it works.