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Stop the Wheel
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Out of 5 votes - Similar Artists: Drekka, Iron and Wine, Red House Painters, Galaxie 500
Out of 5 votes
- Location: Padova, Italy
- Genre: Alternative/Punk » Art-Rock/Experimental
Editor's review
Accents never sound in song as they do in speech. Those wondering how an Italian inflection comes through in English-language indie folk now have an answer: oddly Scottish. The Padova project of Francesco and Jennifer Gentle plays with all the lilt and tenderness their names evoke, like Iron and Wine with a Highlands brogue.
Biography
About a year ago, some unknown people left in front of the Madcap door a basket, where a smiling and wide-awake foundling found shelter, to end all this rotation we’re all bound to.
We adopted him as fast as we learned he had a special predilection for rain and morning air, and his eyes were all one with twilight and gentle atmospheres, set to music by quiet and sweet background noises.
This is Stop the Wheel, and this is Francesco, who will never give up his elfish nature, neither when he joins Jennifer Gentle to create dreamy atmospheres.
And this is Morning, his first all-acoustic solo work; for sake of truth he has also released a tape for the great Best Kept Secret cassette-only label.
Francesco took care of the field recordings (that is, putting to tape not just instruments and voices, but also all the ambience sounds of the room he was in) as of the mixing, while Francesco Fabiano, Jennifer Gentle’s sound engineer, did the mastering process at Kamikaze Hit Farm Studios, Padova, Italy.
As a solo artist, Stop the Wheel has toured with artists on the same musical path, such as Rivulets and Drekka.
