Little Joy is formed by Binki Shapiro, Rodrigo Amarante and Fabrizio Moretti, three friends who dropped their routine at their respective hometowns to make a record in Los Angeles, California in 2007.
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The Skinny (UK)
January 28, 2009
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Lead vocalist Rodrigo Amorante opens the set with a delicate Banhart-esque solo piece that the majority of the audience sadly talks over.
But when Fabrizio Moretti drummer with the Strokes released his first record last November with Little Joy it proved exactly that: an unassuming little charmer that swapped tight-trousered ennui for a loose-fitting tropicalia-tinged sound.
It seems you can hardly move for Strokes side projects at the moment, but Little Joy are different. A collaboration between the New York band's drummer Fabrizio Moretti (on guitar rather than his usual drum stool), girlfriend Binki Shapiro and Brazilian singer Rodrigo Amarante, the unlikely alliance began whe
They turned out to be Regina Spektor and the Strokes’ Fab Moretti, a sometime Little Joy bass player currently sitting out the band’s current tour in order to record with his main outfit.
