Moro & the Silent Revolution: Folk the Eighties

Italy, May 29, 2015 (Newswire.com) - When Moro of Moro & the Silent Revolution was an impressionable kid, an invasion of synthetic music from Britain, the States and other satellite countries changed his life and taste forever. Bands like Duran Duran and Ah-Ha convinced him that the way to success and happiness lay in high-pitched voices and sculpted hair. The songs oozing out of his old-fashioned wireless set told him that to make music, one had to use sounds that no known historic instrument could produce.

Now Moro & the Silent Revolution are out to avenge the damage wrecked on their leader's young and tender mind. Their weapon in this mission is Folk the Eighties, a homemade collection of folk-pop tunes that turn the songs of that terrible decade into real music - with Moro & the Silent Revolution's signature combination of acoustic and electric guitars, bass, human-body percussions and harmonica. And if this album is not enough to folk the decade, then the decade can go folk itself.

Let's award Moro an honorary place in the pantheon of classic English pop eccentrics that is so obviously his spiritual home.

Tom Robinson, Songwriter & BBC deejay

After publication on Italy's most important music site, SentireAscoltare, Folk the Eighties can be downloaded for free on Massimiliano Morini's soundcloud.

Moro & the Silent Revolution's folk-pop has been heard on BBC6, Italian national radio stations Rai Radio1, Radio2 e Radio24, and Italian nationwide TV Laeffe, where it featured as the soundtrack and the theme tune for the TV programme Orto e mezzo. Home Pastorals, their third album, was reviewed enthusiastically on Italian national newspapers and music magazines, as well as on the BBC site Fresh on the Net (three times).

Tom Robinson: “let's award Moro an honorary place in the pantheon of classic English pop eccentrics that is so obviously his spiritual home”.

Eddy Cilìa: “For once, the names of Beatles and early Nick Drake are not taken in vain”.