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Construction site is an Italian indie - rock band that was founded in 1994 in the province of Siena, in Tuscany.

History

The band formed in 1994 in Montepulciano. The band's name comes from the German term construction site, which the group elected by a German - Italian dictionary. According to statements of the band member Francesco Bianconi the word building site was selected because of its strange properties, such as the Include the word agency (which in Italian star means ), the onomatopoeia construction ( the barking of a dog is in Italian with construction reproduced) and the word elle (French for them). The sonic connection to the French writer and master of the decadent Charles Baudelaire is certainly not accidental.

Which emerged from a project by students in 2000 band released their first album Sussidiario illustrato della giovinezza that produced by Amerigo Verardi revealed the openness of the group for a variety of styles. So are reflected in the pieces the influences of French chanson, as well as of Italian origin, the electronic music, New Waves, the soundtracks of the sixties and seventies to the Bossa Nova resist. The album won the award Fuori dal Mucchio ( the magazine Il Selvaggio Mucchio ), as the best indie debut.

In 2003, the album La moda del lento which the line of his predecessor further pursued in his style and the construction site with the price MEI (Meeting delle Etichette Indipendenti ), was named best band of the year, excellent.

In 2005, the band from their previous Independent Record Label joined the multinational Warner Music House and released the album La mala vita, whose singles La guerra è finita and Un romantico a Milano registered a great success in Italy. In 2008, also on Warner, the album released Amen.

Discography

Albums

  • 2000 - Sussidiario illustrato della giovinezza ( Baracca e Burattini )
  • 2003 - La moda del lento ( Mi-Mo/Venus )
  • 2005 - La mala vita ( Warner )
  • 2008 - Amen ( Warner )
  • 2010 - I mistici dell'Occidente ( Warner )
  • 2013 - Fantasma

Singles

  • 2004 - Arriva lo ye -ye
  • 2005 - La guerra è finita
  • 2005 - Un romantico a Milano
  • 2008 - Colombo
  • 2008 - Baudelaire
  • 2010 - Gli spietati
Berlin Decadent movement Independent music
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