Mouse and Sequencers
Members: Nicola Giunta, Lay Llamas
Sunburned Dreamlike Safari
A floating drift toward a mysterious reality, between Nature and Cosmos, poised between sleep and wakefulness, temporal co-presences and impossible spatial ubiquities. In this phantasmagorical saga, inspired by TV science-fiction as well as 60s and 70s horror movies, Nicola Giunta/Lay Llamas creates a miraculous balance between original inserts and retrievals of freely chosen fragments from old audio documentaries on vinyl, perfecting the art of sound collage in an absolutely psychedelic way. No…
Flag of Breeze
*225 copies limited edition. Silkscreened cover and two inserts* The long delayed mini-album collaboration between Nicola Giunta/Lay Llamas and Giole Valenti/JuJu is finally landed!! 'Flag Of Breeze' marks a new adventurous collaboration between the two seven years after Lay Llamas' acclaimed album 'Ostro' released in 2014 by London-based label Rocket Recordings. This mini-LP is figured out like a sort of radio tuning listening session among FM stations and mysterious shortwaves transmissions. T…
Didactic Music
**300 copies** "Experimentation and Italian library music are the coordinates in which Didactic Music is written, the second work of the solo project Mouse and Sequencers by Nicola Giunta (The Lay Llamas), published by Backwards. The Sicilian multi-instrumentalist makes a 'catalog' of genres that range among a melancholic bucolic-folk, documentary field recordings, fleeting expeditions in Space and small experiments in 'Sala Macchine', to quote Amedeo Tommasi.From the sidereal ambient music of A…
Malophòros / Mondi Di Pietra
Backwards Records presents the new Lay Llamas release: the new 7" in gold-coloured vinyl by Lay Llamas, moniker behind which the Sicilian musician and composer Nicola Giunta is hidden. The single will contain two tracks: on Side A Malophòros composed together with the shaman singer Alfio Antico - former collaborator of Fabrizio De Andrè, Tullio de Piscopo and Vinicio Capossela - at frame drum and voice. The piece sounds like an improbable mixture between the Nuova Compagnia Di Canto Popolare and…