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port-royal (intentionally written with small caps and the hyphen, "-", between "port" and "royal"), as a band was born in the summer of 2000 in Genoa, Italy. They play a dreamy, heady, melancholic, wide-deep music on the border among electronica, ambient, shoegaze, minimal techno featuring several trance-dance elements: it seems they are not anymore 'Afraid To Dance'. The music is mixed live with the sensual images and shots of Diamantakos who provides the majoirity of port-royal videos as well. After having released in early 2009 officially as singles another 2 remixes of acts such as Ladytron and Felix Da Housecat (Nettwerk), their latest album "Dying In Time" was released in October-November worldwide by the following labels in the following territories: - n5MD: USA, Canada, Australia, UK, Germany, Austria, Denmark, Iceland and Japan/Asia,; - debruit&desilence: Europe; - Sleeping Star: Italy; - Isound Labels: Poland, Czech Republic and Slovakia; - Klik Records: Greece, Cyprus. A brand new song, "Günther Anders", has been released in early July 2010, featured in the "OndaDrops vol. 2" compilation. The band is composed of 3 musicians and one vj/director: - Attilio Bruzzone: guitar, synthesizer, programming, bass, sometimes vocals (founder) - Ettore di Roberto: piano, synthesizer, programming, sometimes vocals (founder) - Emilio Pozzolini: sampler, programming - Sieva Diamantakos: visuals, video collaborators: - Linda Bjalla: vocals - Alexandr Vatagin: cello, software Discography: - Kraken Ep (Marsiglia Records, 03/2002) - Flares (RESONANT RECORDINGS, 03/2005) - Honvéd Ep (Chat Blanc Records, 03/2007) - Afraid To Dance (RESONANT RECORDINGS, 05/2007) - Afraid To Dance - special vinyl limited edition (Valeot Records, 04/2008) - Flared Up - Remixes (RESONANT RECORDINGS, 05/2008) - Anya: Sehnsucht Ep (Chat Blanc Records, 05/2008) - Magnitogorsk - split album with Absent Without Leave (Sound In Silence Records, 09/2008) - Dying In Time (n5MD, dbds, Sleeping Star, Isound Labels - 10/2009) - Afterglow Ep - w/ Millimetrik ([label)sangre D'Encre - 02/2010) Official website: [url=http://www.port-royal.it]http://www.port-royal.it MySpace: http://www.myspace.com/uptheroyals Also on YouTube: http://www.youtube.com/user/uptheroyals User-contributed text is available under the Creative Commons By-SA License and may also be available under the GNU FDL.