LA CASA AL MARE is a shoegazing 3-piece band based in Rome, Italy. 

2023, Sept 1st: This Astro on vinyl disc - Dreams Never End records. Remastered, 10 tracks, https://dreamsneverend.bandcamp.com/album/la-casa-al-mare-this-astro. || Still Burn https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KejNL3eDAq4

2022, Feb 14th: Otherwise/Autumn released, https://lacasaalmare.bandcamp.com/album/otherwise-autumn

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Buy This Astro CD:

ASIA, AUSTRALIA: 
http://handsandmoment.bigcartel.com/product/la-casa-al-mare-this-astro-ep
Also available in Japan via 
FileUnder (http://fileunderrecords.com?pid=90698315)
Diskunion (diskunion.net/portal/ct/detail/AWS150608-LCAM1)
Tower records (twitter.com/TOWER_Shinjuku/status/609281570042613760)
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WORLD: CD/digital > http://lacasaalmare.bandcamp.com/album/this-astro-ep

Watch At All video here https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Zh2uFzeRVUQ
Watch Sunflowers video here
http://youtu.be/wM_yu46IVy8

Watch M video here 
www.youtube.com/watch?v=e6DoLpF1xyQ 

More stuff on BC https://lacasaalmare.bandcamp.com/.

Paolo Miceli (formerly My Violent Ego and Sea Dweller): drums 
Marco Poloni (formerly La Calle Mojada): bass & vocals 
Alessio Pindinelli: guitars & vocals

The Black Metal Bus Sightseeing soundtrack

Blevin Blectum: aka Synopterus/BevinKelley/DJ-D84. Half of Blectum From Blechdom (with Kristin Galvin), 1/4 of Sagan (with Wobbly, Lesser, Ryan Junell), 1/3 of Traveling Bubble Ensemble(with KelleyPolar + EliseKuder).

PETE GIOCONDA is a unique, edgy singer, a protest poet with penchant for historical reference. This mix of punk attitude and psychedelic-folk feel teases the audience to see through new eyes ... like a Johnny Rotten (who hasn’t slept in four days) meets Times They Are a-Changin’-era Dylan and strolls into Cat Power’s bedroom for consolation.

Out now on Bandcamp -
* UP YOU (album of 14 tracks)
* THE TIME OF GREAT WASTE (single)
* WE ARE REAL EP (5 tracks)
* SAVE YOUR DREAMS EP (6 tracks)

Pete Gioconda's songs are fused from new wave, pop and folk/rock influences, mingling poetic lyrics with a punk attitude and playful unpretentiousness. Youthful songs of mischief, desire, loss and sadness, plus transcendent perceptions.

Pete has taken the empty culture of materialism and is attempting to untangle it. His song “Hey You, Out with Shopping Bags” acquired new meaning in the wake of 2011 looting. Shadow shopping. The unseen forces which control our perception, which leave us “dreaming of money gods”, form the subject of “Wake Up or Be Captured”. “In one sense, 1970s punk had it easy,” Pete comments. “All it had to do was attack nice fluffy hippies. It’s much harder now, because mainstream youth culture is filled with aggressive patsies of consumerism. Being aggressive back doesn’t work. I’ve tried. It just makes minds smaller.”

“Some people make shopping mall music. Big, calm, blandly elegant. Somewhere to pass the time and feel comfortable. Pete does not make that kind of music. He makes the music of cobblestone streets, winding alleys, shady lanes. Dimly lit bars. The music of cold, still dawns. Of desolate, wild country.” - Nomenclature Standard

Pete’s poetic style is influenced by the freedom he found hitching and wandering in his 20s, and by his love of classic literature. His aim is to merge story, theatre and poetry with his music and songs. In 2008, Pete performed many Bristol-written songs live on BBC3 TV’s “Upstaged”, as guest of performance artist/musician Badgertrap.

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