. New Kites video now showing, new 2CD Lightdark released in UK and Europe!

A brand new video for Kites, filmed and edited by Giancarlo Erra, is now streaming at the Nosound mini-site. The mini-site has also been updated to include a new downloadable desktop created by Giancarlo Erra too. The site also still contains a downloadable 15 minute sample of the album, featuring The Misplay (Instrumental Coda) & From Silence To Noise recorded live, as well as the usual desktop and mobile phone downloads, and other audio samples.

The new 2CD edition of Lightdark is released physically on Kscope in the UK on September 22nd but is already available from all major retail and download stores over all Europe! Formed in Italy in 2001, Giancarlo Erra's Nosound creates a seductive and original fusion of elements of Progressive, Ambient and Post Rock.
Regarded by critics and fans alike as one of the most interesting up and coming alt/art rock bands in Europe, Lightdark sees the Nosound identity evolve into something even more focused and powerful. Lightdark inventively combines influences from '70s psychedelia, '80s/'90s ambient and contemporary alt/progressive rock.
Recorded in Italy, England and the US throughout 2006 and 2007, the album develops further the promise of debut album Sol29 and exhibits a stronger group identity which reveals a greater contrast between atmospheric detail and the walls of sound created by the band on stage. Highlights include the 15 minute epic From Silence to Noise, the ethereal The Misplay (with cellist Marianne DeChastelaine), and the epic piano/mellotron driven ballad Someone Starts To Fade Away (which features No-Man's Tim Bowness on vocals).

This 2 disc edition of the album includes an exclusive five track bonus disc including the video for Lightdark.

. NOSOUND signed to Kscope /Snapper!

In July 2008 the band signed to the new post-progressive label Kscope/Snapper, and it's planning to play a few festivals before returning to the studio later this year to start recording their 3rd release due in 2009.
A new 2cd digipack edition of studio album Lightdark will be released on September 15th on Kscope label. This 2 disc edition of the album includes an exclusive five track bonus disc including the video for Lightdark.

Disc One:
About Butterflies And Children
Places Remained
The Misplay
From Silence To Noise
Someone Starts To Fade Away
Kites
Lightdark

Disc Two:
Cold Afterall
Like The Elephant?
You Said ‘I Am..’
Clouds
Lightdark (Enhanced Video Track)

To download a 15 minute sample of Lightdark "The Misplay (Instrumental Coda) & From Silence To Noise" recorded live, as well as the usual desktops, other audio samples and preorder, go to mini-site: http://www.kscopemusic.com/nosound

This new deluxe edition comes in digipack package, expanded 24 pages photograhic booklet and 2 cds. The Disc Two contains remastered songs from the digital ep Clouds, plus a new unreleased track anticipating some of the sounds from the new forthcoming album. For the release of album a new video will be available online, and soon to come merchandise too!
All of the original leftover Lightdark CD's were recalled and distributed as promotionals. If you have an original pressing, make sure you keep your hands on it!

. 16 02 2008 - LIGHTDARK listening party & live

Waiting to collect the first reviews and reactions for the release of the new album, and for other new things happening soon that we still cannot announce officially, we're pleased to invite you:

NOSOUND - LIGHTDARK
listening party & live set

Studio Uno
Via Della Divina Provvidenza 96
00166 Roma - Italy

Free entrance, 9 pm

It will be a special event, this time in a small and more intimate club, joining a listening party with a real live performance of the band. You'll find both new cds to buy, and we'll enjoy staying and speaking with all of you. Entrance is free, and the venue is located 5 minutes away from subway to historic center of Rome and moderately priced small hotels. This will allow a good and easy accomodation also for people coming from outside, maybe deciding to spend a weekend visiting the city and attending the gig.
This time too we prepared a couple of surprises for you..don't miss this out!
In the meantime don't miss the track below:

6 - 2 - 2008


order NOW

Three years on from debut album Sol29, Nosound returns with its highly anticipated second album, 'Lightdark', released through the Burning Shed label. Regarded by critics and fans alike as one of the most interesting up and coming alt/art rock bands in Europe, Lightdark sees the Nosound identity evolve into something even more focused and powerful. 'Lightdark' inventively combines influences from '70s psychedelia, '80s/'90s ambient and contemporary alt/progressive rock. Recorded in Italy, England and the US throughout 2006 and 2007, the album develops further the promise of debut album 'Sol29' and exhibits a stronger group identity which reveals a greater contrast between atmospheric detail and the walls of sound created by the band on stage.

Highlights include the 15 minute epic 'From Silence to Noise', the ethereal 'The Misplay' (with cellist Marianne DeChastelaine), and the epic piano/mellotron driven ballad 'Someone Starts To Fade Away' (which features No-Man's Tim Bowness on vocals). The album single 'Places Remained' is also available for free download among the 'Lightdark' promotional video. The album is already available for preorder and will be released on 4th February 2008, packaged with a stylish 16 page booklet complete with photos and lyrics.

This is the tracklist:

To enjoy in the meantime music from new album, on our shop there's just now the free single track 'PLACES REMAINED', available to download from our Burning Shed Digital Download store for free. Go and download it for a preview of the album, or point your browser to our MYSPACE for a free low quality streaming version, or check the Last.fm high quality stream:

full remastered with 2 additional bonus tracks

To coincide with the release of Nosound's new album, 'Lightdark', the band's celebrated debut release 'Sol29' has been reissued in a remastered and recompiled final edition. Now sounding more detailed, clear and powerful, this is the definitive 'Sol29' edition and compiles all the music written during the first phase of Nosound's evolution. The album includes different versions of 'The World is Outside' and 'The Red Song', already appeared (with original mix) in the DVD 'The World is Outside'.
The album is already available for order, packaged with a stylish 16 page booklet complete with photos and lyrics. This is the tracklist:

You can read all reviews that Sol29 received on the apposite section of this website..and check in the music section and on our MYSPACE for more free previews! To let you appreciate the real improvement on this new version, there's a high quality lossless FLAC track available for free reserved for our mailing list subscribers: The Moment She Knew (9:39). It represents for sure the new 'sound' on this new version of the album , and being one of the most appreciated tracks of the disc hopefully will be a great listening for all.




...and by the way don't forget about the exclusive EP CLOUDS

. Nosound - Clouds (ep) , first new release is out!


It's finally out our FIRST NEW RELEASE after two years! Just go to our newly renovated BurningShed Nosound Shop, already packed with new stuff:

http://www.burningshed.com/store/nosound/

and you'll find it as a digital download with printable graphics, both in mp3 and high lossless quality. One of Nosound's more eclectic releases, 'Clouds' is a 3 track EP of exclusive, new, material recorded during the sessions for the band's forthcoming album 'Lightdark'.

Coming two years after debut release, 'Sol29', the EP can be considered as a bridge between their atmospheric first album and the more diverse and dynamic, 'Lightdark'. For all Nosound newsletter subscribers there's an exclusive 4 minutes audio preview. This is the tracklist:

1. cold afterall (6:18)
2. like the elephant? (5:40)
3. clouds (10:34)

'Cold Afterall': One of the first songs prepared for the new album, the song is an excellent example of the new 'band' sound that Nosound has developed since 'Sol29'.
'Like The elephant?': An improvised song featuring distorted guitars and psychedelic rock experiments. Featuring the typically melodic and down tempo Nosound sound in a harder 'rock' context.
'Clouds': A 10 minute ambient and electronic instrumental, originally intended as the coda to 'Lightdark', the title track of the new Nosound album.

We hope 'Clouds' will be a first release to present Nosound after two years of intensive work and changes, before the final album Lightdark that will bring the overall new picture. Thanks in advance for your support, if the selling numbers of this digital download will go better than ever it will be a big sign and help for us and the new album release.

Waiting for your comments on our Nosound mailing list and Myspace, and don't forget to check the exclusive forthcoming new album Lightdark 6+ minutes long medley containing long excerpts from every track!

. Nosound - Slow, it goes (cdr live) , Digital Download edition!


Being on the wave with you new material streaming, If some of you missed the limited edition of our last cd-r live (Slow, it goes), there's now also a digital download version with graphics on BurningShed again:

http://www.burningshed.com/store/nosound/

It's a performance of January 2007 containing probably the best tracks from Sol29, in a quite good stereo dat official bootleg quality.

This title too is available as Digital Download in both mp3 quality and high lossless format (flac), always complete with printable graphics & artwork. This is the tracklist:

1. idle end (8:00)
2. wearing lies on your lips (4:32)
3. overloaded (6:13)
4. the moment she knew (9:22)

More material live will come soon near the Lightdark album release, we recorded also the last gig and I just ended mixing the all thing, lots of good material we really look forward to publish soon.

Great news will follow in the next few weeks about some major live events starting from early next year around Europe. See you soon...!

Click to hear LIGHTDARK medley on our Myspace profile..

After two years since the last (debut) studio album 'Sol29' Nosound come back with their second release, 'Lightdark'. The debut album sold more than 2000 copies worldwide, followed by a DVD and a cd live, with critics and public praising the band among the most interesting alternative/art rock names in Europe. Like the fanbase growing every day, Nosound grew in those two years as a band identity and developing more their own music and sound.

The second album 'Lightdark' pushes more in the direction taken with Sol29, mixing influences from '70s psychedelia to '80s ambient and '90s modern alt/progressive rock. Recorded between Rome, Norwich (UK) and New York, the album features top collaborations by singer/songwriter Tim Bowness and cellist Marianne DeChastelaine. Following the sound identity started with Sol29 the album underlines the characteristic contrast between suspended moments and walls of sound of the band on stage, featuring unique and detailed sound pushing production to a completely new level.

Much anticipated and waited 'Lightdark' release details will follow in the next few days. With this more than 6 minutes long medley we hope to give you an idea about the new album music and band evolution, waiting for a bunch of new music to be released in the next 3 months.

Please leave your comment on our Myspace page and help us spreading the word feeling free adding the medley to your profile. We promised you a new start and a bunch of new music and bright future for Nosound, this is a start for what will come soon..

. 11 October 2007, Stazione Birra, Rome ...the gallery!

Again playing at Stazione Birra was a great experience and memorable gig. We had probably more important gigs but this one was one of the most enjoyable, both for us and the audience. We already played the new songs in January to have a first feedback from the public, and after several months of (re)working in studio and rehearsing, we ended up with something more moving and more focused yet comfortable and with a sort of 'well known' feeling. This second gig of new songs still unknown to the audience was fantastic, people seemed to receive immediatly the new material, and we enjoyed like never before playing it. The attention and respect by the audience was amazing, with strong support and perfect silence in the quieter moments, allowing us to expand on stage even more our typical dynamic excursions from whisper to walls of sound and atmospheres.

This time we choose to play only new material, fro the forthcoming EP 'Clouds' and the album 'Lightdark', both to be released within the end of the year. For the final encore we dedicated a tribute to one of our most important influences, quite amazing 25 minutes and incredibly 'moving' experience for us and the audience. This was the setlist:

1) about butterflies and children
2) places remained
3) the misplay
4) from silence to noise
5) someone starts to fade away
6) kites
7) lightdark

8) cold afterall
9) like the elephant

10) echoes (pink floyd)

We are currently working with our manager (Rob Palmen) to organize a short tour for the first half of new year to promote the new album. By the way, as already anticipated, we finally found the 'right' label for the album, due to release within the end of the year! You can expect in the forthcoming weeks a lot of news about this, the medley and a single on our myspace, a digital download EP, an exclusive preorder system... your wait will have anyway a lot of new music!

Being now even more important than ever, please visit our MySpace page, drop a comment and help us spreading the word. Your support was always our most important resource, and contacts grows everyday..but we know you can do even more! And hopefully next year we'll play somewhere near all of you, our biggest 'thank you' for being the most important part of Nosound.

.NOSOUND LIVE AT STAZIONE BIRRA, 11 OCT 2007, ROME

Well, we promised more than a surprise in this second half of the year..and we're just starting! Waiting for the single release and all the other material we'll release before the Lightdark album in the next few weeks, we'll play for the second time this year at Stazione Birra! Since the start of this year we worked a bit on the tracks, so this time the performance will include again the integral execution of Lightdark album, plus some the outtakes present in the single release available soon on Burning Shed (soon details), plus some other surprise for the live event. This time too we'll record all the gig so expect some more live material soon!

. LIGHTDARK - Cold Afterall single out in september !

Perhaps we were silent during last few months but as always work is flowing under the hood! A lot of news for all our fans, even if now you are all swimming somewhere and enjoying some holiday we hope! After initial announcement in Jannuary 6 months passed, but now we're ready for the first official announcement we were all waiting: the release of Lightdark single! Scheduled for the end of September is the online lossless audio download single release, complete with exclusive printable graphics. This online release will include Cold Afterall (that will not be included in the official album) plus some other material from the Lightdark recording sessions.
In fact the recording sessions were extended due to the album release delay, and we collected enough material for nearly a double studio album! We deciced anyway to keep untouched the material already recorded and mastered for the release, and to come back to the new material later the next year after Lightdark release....yes, we have the album official scheduled release date within the year! During September we'll try giving a more precise date, and in the following two months we are considering the possibility to start a massive preorder campaign, with discounts and exclusive items to thank all people preordering and supporting so the band (more news to come).

Starting from the end of September, the single online release will be also the occasion to launch our renovated shop, with new release items added and a central place to buy all our material. We'll have our new official shop at BurningShed, that many of you maybe already know. This will a be a central point to buy our releases, plus a new and enhanced download shop with many new items available. So you'll have a new official shop with new exclusive items, added to all our actual mail and online distributions around the world.

Following all this we'll start soon organizing some live date to promote the album, working in parallel to the new material in the new studio we are preparing with Gigi. In the meantime some interesting things are happening, with a soundtrack that should be soon available online (links and info will follow), and the collaboration on the album/project with Tim Bowness going on. We are with Tim in the process of refining mixes, and some great new collaboration is coming that we are sure will interest a lot of you.

The ball keeps rolling...have a great August, a second half of year full of great things is coming.,

.Nosound - Lightdark news!

As already posted on the website, this period was hard between working on small enhanchements for the new album and all things about his release and also the most recent live cd-r (now finishing..no more than two or three orders left!). While going around away from studio for several reasons, anyway all time passed working on mixes and adding/modifying small things here and there. Not always in the most comfortable situations (as you can see), but it's also great sometimes to work outside the usual place just to have some fresh view and then check again results in studio.

Anyway, all the work is now finished! We have the new master, we are starting again with our new shining manager looking for great realities interested in our forthcoming album, there are already some great neames involved and we are all excited about this.
If you want to help let us know you want the new album, post some comment on our Myspace page, generate some buzz on other websites and forums, hopefully now we'll see soon the Lightdark..

In the meantime parallel works are also going well..working on some new music I still don't know what will be, the contribution on the new Stefano Panunzi album, and the much awaited album and project with Tim Bowness..

By the way, for all coming for the exclusive 'Nosound - Slow, it goes' cdr live ..it's now sold out! We are sorry if anyone missed this, but would like to thank all people buying this release making it soon a sold out item. There was a huge request and support for this release, and we are looking for doing something similar in the near future..stay tuned!

.Nosound - Slow, it goes (cdr live) release and preorders! *UPDATED AGAIN*

In the last few weeks we received a lot of request to have on cd, in higher quality, the live contents recently uploaded on this website. The recent gig at Stazione Birra received an amazing response, so after request there's now our first cd-r live available to buy online from our website!

There was an exclusive preorder page reserved for mailing list subscribers, then preorders were available to all. Being an item requested mainly by 'core' fans it was printed in 50 copies only reserved for preorders (plus 50 for normal orders) all signed by the band. All 50 preorders received also the exclusive postcard flyer promoting the gig.

UPDATE: the first special 50 preorder copies are gone! The other 50 are going away fast, will be without the flyer and just a few remaining at the moment..
After this last 50 copies the item will no more available as it was intended as a limited cdr for fans.

This will be an enchanced cd-r containing both audio and cd-rom track. It features exclusive material like Idle End (not available online) and high quality version of Lightdark video promo!

Order your copy now if you want, because they are going really fast..

.NOSOUND new life/website/contents and Lightdark album release delay

As announced several times in the last newsletters and news, a lot of positive things happened in the last year, now with this new website the work is at a new starting point. This news will be quite long but full of great things, a 'welcome back' to our existing unvaluable fans and a great 'Hello!' to newcomers!

Thinking now at how things started two years ago it's just incredible and funny at the same time..Sol29 was published just to 'try', being alone and doing everything myself in studio. Months passed since March 2005 and the 'try' started selling well, I started playing with some friends and a band was born, rehearsing old and new material and so starting being a real band. All things passed lightfast..lots of positive reviews, contacts, more concerts, a real management, new material and album being recorded during 2006, the start of collaboration with Tim Bowness...and our always growing fanbase, all the accesses to website and Myspace pages, the 200+ people on the mailing list and the continuous contacts and support from fans..
The second half of 2006 we announced the new album LIGHTDARK ready to be released soon, and the year ended with some tracks presented live in Italy and UK also with Tim Bowness on stage, a recent gig with all the new album played live and the promise for a February 2007 release date..
Those who read news by our mailing list/newsletter, received a few messages speaking of a lot of work and unexpected good news, leading to some delay for the album release.
The album was sent around to a few important artists and promoters, receiving incredibly good feedback. We already knew it was an important step forward from Sol29 for Nosound as a music reality and a band, so we had to take an important decision: to go again with an autoproduction or to try a different way. In the meanwhile we contacted a new and bigger management/booking agency (Rob Palmen at RPMP) to help us in the process of looking for a proper way to release the next album, and the subsequent live promotion...and we arrived at today!

It was an hard decision to take, but we decided to delay the album release because we want to make it the best possible album for us and for our audience, granting a better distribution, promotion, radio airplay, and a proper live promotion in Europe. For a band is not easy to delay an album already done, but we thought it was the best decision. We're actually working in this direction, trying also to organize other live dates before the album release, and also adding something to the music itself to make it really the best ever possible Nosound album (obviously only until a next better one will be out in 2008..!).
We already got some feedback from labels, and as you can see on this new website we'll work also to put some new material during those 'waiting months', both unedited and new material to promote the new album.
Someone will understand our decision, some other will be disappointed, but we know that wehn you'll hear the album you'll be surprised too. There's now a real band giving life to the music, there are important collaborations of Tim Bowness on vocals and Marianne DeChastelaine on cello. The album was recorded between Rome, Norwich (UK) and New York, and features new improved stunning production and graphics..so please be with us and great news should hopefully come soon!

And now we can go ahead with something more practical..welcome to our new website! Even if the new album still have to come, we decided to renovate design to resemble what will be graphics for Lightdark, adding also LOTS OF NEW MATERIAL online ! Apart from restyling, the same structure of previous website was mantained being simple and effective for navigation. Little changes were made to pages structures, to have all material better organized.
We have now our MYSPACE page as a direct contact point for fans and an important way of promotion, a YOUTUBE page hosting all our old and new video material, a FLICKR page with all our galleries organized for easy navigation, and finally a new centralized easy way to play all audio material thanks to our LAST.FM page! All this material is organized in this way to be more accessile and easy to play from our renovated MUSIC & media page .. where you can find just now new material!
There's the great photogallery from our recent Lightdark live, THREE LIVE TRACKS from the same live (in streaming or freely downloadable for mailing list subscribers), a more than 1 hour streaming containing all Nosound music available on our websites, plus a complete video live from our dvd-r live filmed during 2005 and obviously the promotional video for Lightdark.. check for these in the new music & media page!

If you can please help us leaving comments on the various communities (Myspace, Last.fm etc..) and spreading the word and links about Nosound music to your real and virtual friends. Word of mouth (or internet) from you is our most important way of promotion..we hope to have you with us during this months waiting for the new Nosound - Lightdark album.. see you soon for some previews!..

.Nosound live reports..

About a week passed since our 'Lightdark' gig, we are just preparing all the material to put online!

The gig was fantastic, as the audience attending the event. We performed the first set playing the new album in his full lenght and tracklist, and we got really the right attention, while the second set was more 'rock' with some of the tracks from Sol29.
At the end of the gig we got positive comments, and feedback about the new material was amazing..we hope to bring soon this type of live outside Italy to promote the new album.

Soon online a photogallery, review and interview of the gig on the italian DNAmusic webzine and on this website..stay tuned..

After an year and half from our debut Sol29 album, the first notes from the forthcoming new Nosound album, Lightdark, start coming off from our studio to your ears. We have now an official promotional website, http://www.lightdark.net, where you'll find more and more material until official album release (February 2007).

Just visit it now (broadband internet connection and Flash 8 required) and you'll able to view a special and dedicated video promo introducing the album. If you'll like the video you'll be able to download an mpeg4 quality version, ready also for your iPod Video if you have one. In the next few months you'll find also a medley of the various tracks, and finally the complete single Places Remained, just a month before the album release!

The promo website is intended to spread the word and make people curious about our music, helping with the next album. Without any label or compromise in music we sold more than 2000 copies of the Sol29 debut album alone, receiving everywhere positive comments and reviews. We have now a relatively small but trusted and strong fanbase, and we are asking you to help us spreading the word, posting a comment/link about www.lightdark.net website among forums, mailing lists, blogs and whenever people speak about the music you like. Don't be intrusive and follow moderators rules, be fair and people will like your suggestion. Any comment and suggestion are welcomed, both on our guestbook or MySpace. Soon more news about the new album and all the great things that will likely happen in the next few months. The race is just starting now..

.Nosound & Tim Bowness, live and news

...and it was great! Tim will return soon to England, and we'll post soon on this website details and pictures of these four days with Tim. We played at Locanda Atlantide in Rome and at Auditorium of Foligno before Tony Levin Band, it was incredibly good in both occasions and we had a really warm and positive feedback from the audience. We had also two days at Synchronia Studio rehearsing and playing together, recording some material and a new song from our ongoing collaboration, that
we are all sure will continue and expand in several ways.. With Tim and the band we felt an almost immediate friendship (funny and serious when needed) and a genuine common feeling about the music,
something we didn't expect in that easy way, and we were all pleased and surprised by this.
At the moment the good news is that this will be probably just the start.
You can check the images on the left to view the photogalleries of recent gigs with Tim.
In the meantime we have finally a Nosound on MySpace page ..with just some preview pics, and more exclusive content in the near future.

NOSOUND - THE WORLD IS OUTSIDE
the Sol29 sessions, live recordings and unreleased material

DVD-R, dvd-video (plus pc/mac data track), PAL , all regions
Release date: 29 April 2006 (shipping starting from 4 May).

Order available!


This DVD-R (selfproduced and avaiable only from this website and at live gigs) contains all the material we have about the Sol29 period. It represents the start of Nosound, and complements the Sol29 official album with outtakes, extra unreleased material and some live performances.
The first part includes three live tracks recorded audio/video during our first live performance as a band (official bootleg multicamera quality). The second part is a collection of three pieces of ambient music accompanied by some 'space' images. The third part features three Sol29 outtakes, as audio tracks from the Sol29 sessions, previously unreleaed or available only as mp3. The last section contains some extra bonus material, like shots of live backstage and dvd working in studio.
Intended to be a fan/collector's dvd-r item, will be available at a special cheap price and with our usual professional and 'classy' package and graphics.


Tracklist: