abstract:Orso is a US-based band formed in 1996 and led by Phil Spirito of Rex, HiM (US), Loftus, and Califone featuring Brian Deck of Red Red Meat and Ben Massarella of Califone. The musical style is self-described as "orchestrated folk weirdness"; their songs, which feature prominent banjo parts, also feature experimental sounds such as those made by typewriters and toilets.
But Guernio Melis, a native Sardinian based in New York who is a wine buyer at Restaurant Gordon Ramsay and a sommelier at Orso, told me he didn't feature Vermentino because it was cheap.