Bio: Little Joy is Binki Shapiro, Rodrigo Amarante and Fabrizio Moretti, three friends who
dropped their routine at their respective hometowns to make a record in Los Angeles,
California.
Through a ... (more)
Bio: Little Joy is Binki Shapiro, Rodrigo Amarante and Fabrizio Moretti, three friends who
dropped their routine at their respective hometowns to make a record in Los Angeles,
California.
Through a chance encounter at a Portuguese festival in Lisbon, where both Amarante
(Singer/Guitarist of Los Hermanos) and Moretti (drummer of The Strokes) had
performed, the two chatted well through the night and into the morning by the side of the
river, humoring the idea of working together on music that had no affiliation to their
particular bands.
A year later, Amarante traveled to the United States to record with Devendra Banhart on
his Smokey Rolls Down Thunder Canyon album. On the off hours of an arduous
recording process, Amarante would meet with Moretti to discuss anything but music.
Binki Shapiro, musician and native of Los Angeles, was introduced to the pair through
mutual acquaintances and became a fast friend, encouraging the two to focus on the
music they had spoken of long before. Through the process of late night “show-and-tell”
the three developed and arranged songs Moretti had begun and soon after started
writing original music for the group as a band.
A couple of months later they all moved into a house in Echo Park to demo songs and
soon after, with the help of producer Noah Georgeson, who had recorded Banhart’s
album, they finished their self-titled debut, Little Joy, named after the cocktail lounge just
down the street from their home.
Little Joy is to be released worldwide by Rough Trade Records, a division of The
Beggars Group, on Nov. 4, 2008.
For more information please contact Rough Trade Records
212 995 5882 banquet@beggars.com
www.myspace.com/littlejoymusic (less)
