Little Joy is a
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ian/
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formed in 2007 by
Los Hermanos
Los Hermanos is a rock band from Rio de Janeiro, Brazil. The group was formed in 1997 by Marcelo Camelo (vocals/guitar), Rodrigo Amarante (guitar/vocals), Rodrigo Barba (drums), and Bruno Medina (keyboards/keyboard bass). Currently they are on ...
singer/guitarist
Rodrigo Amarante
Rodrigo Amarante de Castro Neves (born September 6, 1976) is a Brazilian singer-songwriter, multi-instrumentalist, composer and arranger. He is part of the bands Los Hermanos, Orquestra Imperial, and Little Joy, and released his first solo reco ...
,
The Strokes
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drummer
Fabrizio Moretti
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, and
Binki Shapiro
Little Joy is a Brazilian/ American rock supergroup formed in 2007 by Los Hermanos singer/guitarist Rodrigo Amarante, The Strokes drummer Fabrizio Moretti, and Binki Shapiro. They released their only album in 2008.
History
Formation and beg ...
. They released
their only album in 2008.
History
Formation and beginnings (2006–2008)
![Rodrigo Amarante 2013](https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/6/6e/Rodrigo_Amarante_2013.jpg)
Amarante and Moretti met in 2006, at a festival in
Lisbon
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where both their bands were performing, and the idea came up to start a new musical project unrelated to their respective bands. In 2007, with Los Hermanos on hiatus "for an undetermined amount of time", Amarante traveled to
Los Angeles
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to collaborate with
Devendra Banhart on his ''
Smokey Rolls Down Thunder Canyon
''Smokey Rolls Down Thunder Canyon'' is a Devendra Banhart album released September 25, 2007. This album features more instrumentation than the previous records, as well as more genre experimentation. ''Smokey Rolls Down Thunder Canyon'' was rec ...
'' album. He and Moretti met during recording breaks and talked about "anything but music." Through mutual acquaintances, they met multi-instrumentalist Jordana Shapiro, who goes by "Binki," and she encouraged the pair to work on a few songs Moretti had begun writing. The band then moved into a house in the
Echo Park
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area of Los Angeles to write more original music and record some demos. The band was christened "Little Joy" after a cocktail lounge not far from their house.
''Little Joy'' (2008–2010)
Their
eponymous debut album was recorded with the help of producer
Noah Georgeson
Noah Georgeson is an American musician, producer, engineer, mixer and solo recording artist. Georgeson's debut album '' Find Shelter'' was released through Plain Recordings on November 28, 2006.
Early life and education
Born in San Anselmo, ...
and engineer Beau Raymond, whom Amarante met during his sessions with
Devendra Banhart. It was released by
Rough Trade Records
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on November 4, 2008, and was hailed by
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as "one of the sweetest, most listenable, consistently enjoyable records of the season." Their debut album was given four stars by Rolling Stone magazine and
Nick Hornby
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voted it his favorite album of 2008.
In popular culture
Binki Shapiro contributed, alongside Little Joy collaborator
Devendra Banhart, to
Beck
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's second
Record Club
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The purpose of the project is to cover an entire album by another artist in one day, using an informal and fluid collective of musicians. Albums covered as of July 2010 are ...
covers album, ''
Songs of Leonard Cohen
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'', as well as previously appearing in many of the music videos released from his album ''
The Information'', released in October 2006.
"The Next Time Around" was used in a television
commercial
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for the
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, while "Keep Me in Mind" was used in
season one, episode twenty ("The G-Word") of the
NBC
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comedy series ''
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''. "Don’t Watch Me Dancing" was used in the film ''
The Age of Adaline
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''.
Binki Shapiro began her career in the performing arts at an early age. She featured as a vocalist, dancer, and actress in the Kids on Stage for a Better World, a youth performance group sponsored by the Church of Scientology Celebrity Centre International in Hollywood. They performed original productions for audiences throughout Southern California.
Band members
Little Joy
*
Rodrigo Amarante
Rodrigo Amarante de Castro Neves (born September 6, 1976) is a Brazilian singer-songwriter, multi-instrumentalist, composer and arranger. He is part of the bands Los Hermanos, Orquestra Imperial, and Little Joy, and released his first solo reco ...
–
vocals
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,
guitar
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,
bass,
piano
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,
ukulele
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,
organ,
Mellotron
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,
percussion
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(2007–present)
*
Binki Shapiro
Little Joy is a Brazilian/ American rock supergroup formed in 2007 by Los Hermanos singer/guitarist Rodrigo Amarante, The Strokes drummer Fabrizio Moretti, and Binki Shapiro. They released their only album in 2008.
History
Formation and beg ...
– guitar, vocals, bass, keyboards, glockenspiel, percussion
(2007–present)
*
Fabrizio Moretti
Fabrizio Moretti (born June 2, 1980) is a Brazilian-American musician and visual artist best known as the drummer for American rock band The Strokes, with whom he has released six studio albums since 2001. A collaborative artist, he has been pa ...
– tenor guitar, piano, bass, drums, guitar, percussion,
melodica
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, vocals
(2007–present)
Live band
Little Joy
*
Rodrigo Amarante
Rodrigo Amarante de Castro Neves (born September 6, 1976) is a Brazilian singer-songwriter, multi-instrumentalist, composer and arranger. He is part of the bands Los Hermanos, Orquestra Imperial, and Little Joy, and released his first solo reco ...
–
vocals
Singing is the act of creating musical sounds with the voice. A person who sings is called a singer, artist or vocalist (in jazz and/or popular music). Singers perform music (arias, recitatives, songs, etc.) that can be sung with or without ...
,
guitar
The guitar is a fretted musical instrument that typically has six strings. It is usually held flat against the player's body and played by strumming or plucking the strings with the dominant hand, while simultaneously pressing selected stri ...
,
percussion
A percussion instrument is a musical instrument that is sounded by being struck or scraped by a beater including attached or enclosed beaters or rattles struck, scraped or rubbed by hand or struck against another similar instrument. Exc ...
(2007–2010)
*
Binki Shapiro
Little Joy is a Brazilian/ American rock supergroup formed in 2007 by Los Hermanos singer/guitarist Rodrigo Amarante, The Strokes drummer Fabrizio Moretti, and Binki Shapiro. They released their only album in 2008.
History
Formation and beg ...
– guitar, vocals, keyboards, percussion
(2007–2010)
*
Fabrizio Moretti
Fabrizio Moretti (born June 2, 1980) is a Brazilian-American musician and visual artist best known as the drummer for American rock band The Strokes, with whom he has released six studio albums since 2001. A collaborative artist, he has been pa ...
– tenor guitar, guitar, percussion, vocals, drums
(2007–2009)
*
Jack Dishel – tenor guitar, guitar, percussion, vocals
(2009–2010)
Backing band
*Todd Dahlhoff – bass, vocals
(2008–2010)
*
Matt Romano – drums, percussion
(2008–2010)
*Matt Borg – guitar, vocals
(2008–2010)
*Michael Ian Cummings – guitar, vocals
(2008–2010)
*
Noah Georgeson
Noah Georgeson is an American musician, producer, engineer, mixer and solo recording artist. Georgeson's debut album '' Find Shelter'' was released through Plain Recordings on November 28, 2006.
Early life and education
Born in San Anselmo, ...
– guitar, vocals
(2008–2010)
Discography
*''
Little Joy
Little Joy is a Brazilian/American rock supergroup formed in 2007 by Los Hermanos singer/guitarist Rodrigo Amarante, The Strokes drummer Fabrizio Moretti, and Binki Shapiro. They released their only album in 2008.
History
Formation and begi ...
'' (2008)
References
External links
Little Joy on Obscure Sound
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Musical groups established in 2007
Rough Trade Records artists
Rock music supergroups