Giardini di Mirò
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Giardini di Mirò is a post-rock unit based in Reggio Emilia, Italy. The group formed in 1998, and its members include Jukka Reverberi, Lorenzo Lanzi, Mirko Venturelli, Luca Di Mira, and Corrado Nuccini. Notable acts the unit has toured with include Godspeed You! Black Emperor, Karate, Ulan Bator, and Unwound.
The band has released several EP recordings, in addition to a pair of full-length studio recordings. A remix album of some of their recordings was released in 2002, with performances from several notable artists including Styrofoam, ISAN, Dntel, Herrmann und Kleine, amongst others.
[edit] Trivia
The band's moniker is a homage to a Progressive rock outfit which was based in Rome, Italy in the 1970s. The earlier outfit disbanded after recording some tapes for Italian national television. The newer band's first recording was an instrumental version of the original band's song, "Città di Vetro". The mastermind behind the original group was impressed by the cover version, so much so that he paid for the recording expenses to have the song done in a studio.