press release - A Disappointed Love With a Desensitized Robot
Valvola is a group of Italian pop authors and arrangers, with a shared love of analogue synths and cinematic atmospheres, who experiment with different sounds and attitudes within intricately orchestrated music. Many disparate elements influence the Valvola sound; from the minimal electronics of Kraftwerk to the complicated arrangements of Morricone; from Black Soul Music to extreme stereophonic experimentation, and the future-retro pop of Stereolab. Valvola consider themselves as “pop” writers in the extended meaning that this word held during the Sixties, when accessibility and experimentation weren’t necessarily mutually exclusive. The group aim to champion the renaissance of an approach to music that has been all but lost, embodying a mysterious and rare quality that breathes an allure into their records and makes them an adventure you’ll want to join them in, again and again...
“Orchestrated cinematic soundtracks that are bound to seduce as much as confuse. Imagine Stereolab at their most organic, riding a tidal wave of Kraftwerk-esque electronics, and you’ve at least reached the half-way mark of where these guys are heading. Add to that the occasional foray into extreme electronic experimentation and their fascination for analogue synth sounds…” [The Broken Face]
release:A Disappointed Love With a Desensitized Robot
label: Pickled Egg Records