Mauro Remiddi’s project Porcelain Raft has done a lot in the past two years for an artist working out of his bedroom. The Roman turned Londoner released a seven track EP in 2011 entitled Gone Blind, and just put out a full-length album Strange Weekend toward the end of January of this year. Remiddi has said that “Strange Weekend is a snapshot of time. You don’t know what’s going on, but you know something is going on.” Songs like “Drifting In and Out” and “Is It Too Deep For You?” are perfect examples of how Remiddi takes dream-like images and creates collages of sound that transcend the average ability of sampler and drum machine bedroom pop. In a lot of ways, Porcelain Raft resembles the likes of David Bowie or Beach House, not only in the dream pop nature of the songs, but in the way that he’s been known to capture the aesthetic of science fiction. On his website, Remeddi responds to this criticism: “The Science Fiction I’m interested in is not the one from here to the infinitive future, it’s the one that goes from now to few hours from now. The immediate future, the one that is just around the corner from now.”
It’s not always easy to predict what the immediate future will hold for any of us, but as far as Sunday night plans go it would serve you well to see Porcelain Raft put his sci-fi songwriting on display at The Ninth Ward tonight at 7. It will be his second show at the venue in the last year, having opened for Yuck last fall. Local electro-indie acts Canary Girls and Brother Keep will be opening, so you'll definitely want to head down early. Tickets are $10.
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