Staff

Ciro Frattini

Contributor

ciro.frattini@ondarock.it

Born in Naples in 1983, he remains deeply marked - in character and spirit - by his origins: with everything that entails, for better or worse.
He got into music late, when he found himself holding Sonic Youth's "Daydream Nation". From that moment on he lost his mind, and started digging and unearthing everything behind and ahead of it, a losing battle he's still fighting to this day. He thus ended up becoming - driven by an aspiration to omniscience - an eclectic listener: in a typical day of his, you might just as easily find him alternating between folk-dark-country-punk-barry white-indie-jingle jangleà-la-byrds-synth-wave-avant-tunz-jazz-supermarket-muzak-chorusesà-la-beach boys - unique records that are worth listening to.
He has been contributing to Ondarock since 2003.

Monographs and interviews

Animal Collective
Mono Monograph
Arcade Fire
Mono Monograph
Bugo
Mono Monograph Int Interview
dEUS
Mono Monograph Int Interview
Joanna Newsom
Mono Monograph

Reviews on OndaRock

[N!] The Empty Space ambient
4
AA.VV. Cowboys In Scandinavia: New Folk Sounds From Northern Europe folk
6.5
ADAM GREEN Sixes & Sevens songwriter
6.5
AIR Pocket Symphony electro-pop
6
AKRON / FAMILY Love Is Simple folk-rock
7.5
AKRON/ FAMILY Set ‘Em Wild, Set ‘Em Free folk rock, psych rock
7
ALANIS MORISSETTE So-Called Chaos pop
4
ALEC EMPIRE Futurist industrial
5
ALKALINE TRIO Crimson pop punk
4
AMERICAN MUSIC CLUB The Golden Age songwriter
7
AMON TOBIN Chaos Theory: Splinter Cell 3 Soundtrack drum n bass
5
ANDREW BIRD Armchair Apocrypha pop-folk, singer-songwriter
7
ANGELS OF LIGHT We Are Him folk-rock
6.5
ANIMAL COLLECTIVE Feels avant-folk, pop, psychedelia
7.5
ANIMAL COLLECTIVE Merriweather Post Pavilion psych-pop
8
ANIMAL COLLECTIVE Strawberry Jam Psych-folk
7.5
ANJA GARBAREK Briefly Shaking pop-rock
5
ANTONY AND THE JOHNSONS The Crying Light songwriter
8
ARCADE FIRE Neon Bible alt-rock
8
ARIEL PINK Ariel Pink’s Haunted Graffiti 3-4: Scared Famous weird folk
7
ARTI & MESTIERI First Live in Japan progressive
5
AUDIOSLAVE Out Of Exile hard rock
4
BARRY ADAMSON Stranger On The Sofa alt-rock
5
BECK Guero alt-pop
5.5
BETH ORTON Comfort Of Strangers songwriter
6
BILLY CORGAN The Future Embrace synth-pop
5
BLACK EYED SUSAN And Silence Will Begin Soon post-rock
5
BLACK OX ORKESTAR Nisht Azoy folk, klezmer, post-rock
6
BONNIE PRINCE BILLY Summer In The Southeast songwriter
7
BONNIE PRINCE BILLY The Letting Go folk, singer-songwriter
7
BORIS Pink heavy, rock
5
BRAKES Give Blood country-punk
5.5
BRIAN MCBRIDE When The Detail Lost Its Freedom ambient
6.5
BUGO Golia e Melchiorre songwriter
6
BUGO Sguardo contemporaneo pop-rock
5.5
CALEXICO Garden Ruin country-folk-pop
4
CALEXICO In The Reins folk-rock
5
CAMERA 237 Vectorial Maze post-rock
5.5
CELEBRATION The Modern Tribe soul-wave
7
CHEVREUIL Capoëira math-rock
5.5
CHRIS BROKAW Incredible Love rock, songwriter
6
CIRCO SAN VITO Piangere sul latte versandolo folk
6
COLDPLAY X & Y pop
6
COLLECTIONS OF COLONIES OF BEES Birds avant-garde
6.5
CRISTINA DONÀ La quinta stagione pop-rock
4
CROOKED FINGERS Dignity And Shame country rock
7
CULT OF LUNA Somewhere Along The Highway post-metal
7
CURSIVE The Difference Between Houses And Homes emo-core
4
D.F.A. Kaleidoscope progressive
4
DANIELSON Ships alt-folk
7
DEFTONES Deftones metal
4
DELORENTOS In Love With Details pop-rock
4
DEPECHE MODE Sounds Of The Universe synth-pop
4.5
DEUS Pocket Revolution pop-rock
6
DEUS Vantage Point pop-rock
7
DEVASTATIONS Coal pop-rock
7
DEVASTATIONS Yes, U noir rock
7
DIRTY PROJECTORS Rise Above alt-rock, songwriter
5
DIRTY PROJECTORS The Getty Address glitch-opera
7
DOUBLE Loose In The Air alt-pop
5.5
DOVES Some Cities pop
6
DØ A Mouthful indie-pop
6
DREAM THEATER Octavarium prog-metal
4.5
DUNGEN Ta Det Lugnt psychedelic-rock
8
EAGLE*SEAGULL Eagle * Seagull pop-rock
6.5
EL-GHOR Merci Cucù alt-rock
6
ELEKTRONS Red Light Don’t Stop electro-dance
6
ELVIS COSTELLO WITH THE METROPOLE ORKEST My Flame Burns Blue orchestral pop, pop-jazz
5
ELYSIAN FIELDS Bum Raps & Love Taps dream-rock, noir rock
7
ERIC BACHMANN To The Races folk
6.5
ETTORE GIURADEI Era che così songwriter
6
EVA CASSIDY American Tune songwriter
5
EVANGELICALS So Gone psych-pop
6
FAUN FABLES The Transit Rider folk
5.5
FIELD MUSIC Field Music pop-rock
6
FIELD MUSIC Write Your Own History pop-rock
5
FILM SCHOOL Hideout wave
6
FINAL FANTASY He Poos Clouds chamber pop
7
FLAMING LIPS At War With The Mystics pop-rock, psychedelia
7
FRANCOBEAT Vedo Beat pop punk, pop-rock
6.5
FRANZ FERDINAND Tonight: Franz Ferdinand rock
7
FUTUREHEADS News And Tributes pop-rock, punk, wave
6.5
GANG GANG DANCE God’s Money avant-rock
7
GEORGIE JAMES Places alt-pop
5
GHOST Hypnotic Underworld prog-rock, psychedelic-rock
7.5
GINEVRA DI MARCO Disincanto pop-rock
5.5
GO! TEAM Proof Of Youth alt-rock
7
GOD IS AN ASTRONAUT & THE MANTRA ABOVE THE SPOTLESS MELT MOON Split post-rock
5
GORILLAZ Demon Days pop
6.5
HERMAN DUNE Not On Top folk-rock
6.5
HEY WILLPOWER P.D.A. dance
5.5
HOT GOSSIP Angles post-punk
5.5
HUMANOIRA L’arte di sciogliere la neve post-rock
5
HUMPTY DUMPTY Q. B. pop-wave
6
I AM THE AVALANCHE I Am The Avalanche emo-core, pop punk
3
INFADELS We Are Not the Infadels disco-punk
6
INTELLIGENCE Icky Baby punk-noise
4
IRON AND WINE The Shepherd’s Dog folk
7
ISAN Plans Drawn In Pencil indietronica
6
ISLANDS Arm’s Way alt-rock, glam-pop
7
ISOBEL CAMPBELL Milkwhite Sheets folk
5.5
JANIS JOPLIN Pearl blues-rock
JASON COLLETT Idols of Exile country-folk-rock, singer-songwriter
5.5
JENNY WILSON Love And Youth pop, songwriter
7.5
JIM MORAY Jim Moray folk-pop, orchestral pop
6.5
JOANNA NEWSOM Have One On Me songwriter
8.5
JOANNA NEWSOM Ys avant-folk
8
JOHN VANDERSLICE Pixel Revolt pop
7
JOSH RITTER The Animal Years folk-rock
6.5
KANYE WEST 808s & Heartbreak r&b, rap, synth-soul
6
KAYO DOT Dowsing Anemone With Copper Tongue prog-metal
7
KILL ME TOMORROW The Garbageman And The Prostitute punk-funk
6.5
KILL THE YOUNG Kill The Young pop-rock
3
KING ME Happy Happy alt-rock, pop-rock
3
L'ALTRA Different Days post-rock
4
LAMBCHOP Damaged alt-country, alt-folk
7
LANSING - DREIDEN The Dividing Island pop, psych-pop, synth-pop
7
LAUDANUM Your Place & Time Will Be Mine electro-pop
5
LAUREN HOFFMAN Choreography songwriter
5
LAYO & BUSHWACKA! Feels Closer house
6.5
LEEROY STAGGER Beautiful House folk-rock, singer-songwriter
6.5
LEGA LEGGERA Basta! rock
7
LENNY KRAVITZ It Is Time For A Love Revolution rock
5
LES GEORGES LENINGRAD Sur Les Traces De Black Eskimo post-punk
4
LIGABUE Nome e cognome rock
4
LIZ JANES & CREATE(!) Liz Janes & Create(!) folk-rock
5
LOW Drums And Guns slo-core
7
LUCA AQUINO Sopra le nuvole jazz
6.5
LUMINAL Canzoni di tattica e disciplina rock
5.5
M.I.A. Kala dance
6.5
MADONNA Confessions On A Dance Floor dance
7
MADONNA Hard Candy pop
7
MAGICAKE Botoxxx electro
4
MAISIE Balera metropolitana alt-pop
7.5
MANTA RAY Torres de Electricidad alt-rock
6
MARIE MODIANO I’m Not A Rose folk-pop, songwriter
6.5
MARLENE KUNTZ Uno singer-songwriter rock
5.5
MARS VOLTA Frances The Mute progressive, psychedelia
5
MAXIMILIAN HECKER I’ll Be A Virgin, I’ll Be A Mountain songwriter
7
MCLUSKY Mcluskyism alt-rock, punk
7
MEGAFAUN Bury The Square folk
7
MERZ Loveheart indietronica
7
MERZ Silver Tree Ep indietronica
6.5
MESMERICO Magnete hardcore
6.5
MIA DOI TODD Manzanita songwriter
6.5
MICAH Everything soul
5
MICAH P. HINSON The Baby & The Satellite country-folk
7
MICE PARADE Bem-Vinda Vontade post-rock
6.5
MICE PARADE Obrigado Saudade post-rock
7.5
MODEY LEMON The Curious City hard rock, proto-punk
4.5
MORGAN Da A ad A pop, songwriter
4
NAGISA NI TE Dream Sounds folk-rock
6
NATIONAL TRUST Kings & Queens disco-soul
5
NEKO CASE Fox Confessor Brings The Flood alt-country
7
NERVOUS CABARET Drop Drop alt-rock
6.5
NEW PORNOGRAPHERS Challengers pop-rock
5.5
NEW PORNOGRAPHERS Twin Cinema pop-rock
9
NIOBE White Hats alt-pop
5
OASIS Don’t Believe The Truth pop-rock
5
OCEANSIZE Everyone Into Position math-rock
5
ODAWAS The Blue Depths ambient, pop, slo-core
6.5
OLD TIME RELIJUN Catharsis in Crisis avant-rock
6
OUR BROTHER THE NATIVE Tooth And Claw free-folk
5
OUT HUD Let Us Never Speak Of It Again punk-funk
6.5
PERRY KEYES Meter rock, songwriter
5
PINK MOUNTAINTOPS Axis Of Evol psychedelia
5
RAL PARTHA VOGELBACHER Shrill Falcons alt-rock
4
RAY DAVIES Other People’s Lives pop-rock, singer-songwriter
4
RAZ OHARA Raz Ohara And The Odd Orchestra songwriter
6.5
RICHARD YOUNGS The Naïve Shaman avant-garde
6.5
ROBERT POLLARD From A Compound Eye alt-rock
4
ROBERT WYATT Comicopera pop-jazz, songwriter
4
ROYAL WE The Royal We pop-rock
4
ROYKSOPP Junior electronic, pop
6.5
SECRET SOCIETY Sad Boys Dance When No One’s Watching emo, folk-rock
6.5
SHARON JONES & THE DAP-KINGS 100 Days, 100 Nights soul
6.5
SIMON JOYNER Beautiful Losers: Singles and Compilation Tracks 1994-1999 lo-fi folk
7.5
SINKING CITIZENSHIP Broadcasting Germs nu-metal, rock
5
SLACKERS Peculiar reggae-ska
6.5
SOL SEPPY The Bells of 1 2 electro, pop
6.5
SONIC YOUTH Rather Ripped noise-rock, pop-rock
5
STANDS Horse Fabulous psych-pop-rock
7
STEVE DAWSON Sweet Is The Anchor country, pop, soul
7
STYROFOAM The Same Channel electronic, hip-hop
4
SUBHUMANS Internal Riot punk
7
SUBURBAN KIDS WITH BIBLICAL NAMES # 3 alt-pop
5
SUN KIL MOON Tiny Cities folk-rock
5
SUPERGRASS Road To Rouen pop
7
TAPES'N'TAPES The Loon wave
6.5
THE EARLY NOVEMBER The Acoustic Ep emo
3
THE LATE CORD Lights From The Wheelhouse alt-rock
6.5
THE MOST SERENE REPUBLIC Underwater Cinematographer alt-pop
4
THOM YORKE The Eraser electro
6.5
THRILLS Let’s Bottle Bohemia pop
5
TOM BROSSEAU Empty Houses Are Lonely folk, singer-songwriter
6.5
TOM ZE' Estudando O Pagode (na Opereta Segregamulher E Amor) samba
8.5
TYLER RAMSEY A Long Dream About Swimming Across the Sea songwriter
7
U2 No Line On The Horizon pop-rock
7
VASHTI BUNYAN Lookaftering folk
7.5
VINICIO CAPOSSELA Da solo songwriter
5.5
VOLCANO! Beautiful Seizure art-rock
7.5
WARRIOR SOUL Last Decade Dead Century hard rock, heavy metal
6.5
WHITE HINTERLAND Phylactery Factory pop-jazz, songwriter
7
WRONG OBJECT Stories From The Shed jazz-rock, prog-rock
6
XIU XIU Women As Lovers alt-rock
6
YEAH YEAH YEAHS Show Your Bones pop-rock
5
YO LA TENGO I’m Not Afraid Of You And I Will Beat Your Ass alt-rock
7.5

Live reports

Legendary Pink Dots
05/12/2007