Strange Weekend

VINYL FORMAT. Limited edition on white vinyl. Strange Weekend is Porcelain Raft's debut record, yet in many ways it's his 156th. Somewhere in New York, Rome, or maybe London, there is a suitcase full of tapes, minidiscs and CDs - days and days worth of music, all of it the result of Mauro Remiddi's 27 years of travels across Europe – from his native Italy to London; of caravanning with the Berlin Youth Circus playing traditional gypsy Klezmer music; of reinterpreting traditional music in North Korea; and of a stint playing piano for an Off Broadway tap dance show. At this point Remiddi has lived three musicians' lifetimes.
Amazingly, Strange Weekend - with deep roots in so many times and places – is an album that beautifully captures the fleeting right now. Remiddi's interest in movement – about capturing a momentary now en route to the next – is apparent; postcards and polaroids of buildings and faces from the street flicker past. The project's genesis lies in this visual imagery. Over the past year, Remiddi has compiled a catalogue of images – gathered from the various nooks and crannies of the internet – that have served as notes, inspiration, context, and a map for Porcelain Raft's music.