Porcelain Raft or Mauro Remiddi (born 1972 in Rome, Italy) is a composer/song writer/musician. He currently lives in New York City. He is currently best known for his alternative rock project

Porcelain Raft Porcelain Raft is Mauro Remiddi's main music project. The New York-based musician began his long, prolific career in Italy, the place of his birth, playing for small, local projects. After composing the original soundtrack for the 1997 Italian sh ...

Career

In 1997 he composed the music for the short fil
'La Matta dei Fiori'
which won the prize

David di Donatello The David di Donatello Awards, named after Donatello's ''David'', a symbolic statue of the Italian Renaissance, are film awards given out each year by the ''Accademia del Cinema Italiano'' (The Academy of Italian Cinema). There are 26 award cat ...

for best short film. In 1999 he played his own composition at La Mama Theatre in New York as part of the tap dance sho
'Vaudeville 2000'
After moving to UK he started a long term collaboration with video artis
Ra Di Martino
composing and appearing in three of Di Martino's videos ('Not 360', 'Night Walker' and 'August 2008'). In 2003, under the name Three Blind Mice, artist/musician Onyee Lo and Mauro Remiddi started to play together as a duo, in 2005 they formed

Sunny Day Sets Fire Sunny Day Sets Fire were an indie psychedelic pop quintet from London. Although formed in London, the members come from different backgrounds such as Hong Kong, Italy, Canada and the UK. History The band was formed in London in 2005 by the Ita ...

. In 2008 he collaborated with

Filthy Dukes Filthy Dukes are a synthpop band from London, England. The band is composed of Olly Dixon (sampling, electronic percussion, electric guitar), Tim Lawton (synthesisers, lead vocalist) and Mark Ralph (bass guitar, backing vocals). Having been acti ...

, singing on the track "Somewhere at Sea" for their debut album ''

Nonsense in the Dark ''Nonsense in the Dark'' is the debut studio album by English band Filthy Dukes Filthy Dukes are a synthpop band from London, England. The band is composed of Olly Dixon (sampling, electronic percussion, electric guitar), Tim Lawton (synthes ...

''. His first

EP, ''Gone Blind'', was released on Acephale in 2010. Porcelain Raft's debut full-length, ''Strange Weekend'', was released on Secretly Canadian in January 2012.

References and External links

Sunny Day Sets FireSDSF interviewSDSF album reviewFilthy Dukes album review
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