The ambitious and multifaceted project of Annalisa De Feo, a dreamlike dream duo, conducted with often different travel companions, reaches the significant milestone of the fourth album. In the last two years the line-up He stabilized with the presence of the cellor Livia De Romanis, creating the best conditions to complete the speech started thanks to the previous “Floating”. It is a path that tends to move away from the jazz shades of the beginning to perfect the balance between refined modern classical and convincing electro momentum, always maintaining a decisive experimental imprint. Eight traces plus one Bonus trackorganized by ideally dividing the work into two parts, rather different from each other even if absolutely complementary.
The opening is entrusted to the dissonant notes of the cello and a metal body that rubs the ropes of the piano: a incipit Which knows of avant -garde, set on the search for unusual sound, not very aligned. “All about Thinking” restores a sort of provisional quiet, with the two tools ready to chase each other, modeling a soft dance that cleverly rippled through a crescendo fed by the intervention of the double bass of Jacopo Ferrazza. A decisive exotic touch is brought by the subsequent “Kalim”, through the sound of Kalimba and a piano that at times embroidered reasons with an unmistakable Latin flavor. It seems to have already visited a world, but the journey has just begun …
“From Deep of the Air” is the most canonically modern classical track, positioned between the evocative visions of Sakamoto and the melancholy urban impressionism of the recent Dardust, in the constant search for pathos. Through “Tala”, successful experiment for cello, electronics and voice (but a voice as it could be treated by ARCA), we change totally scenario: “Shifting Landscapes” represents the valuable summary of the Berlin years of Annalisa, another crescendo, but this time conceived by the point of view of the beatmakerbuilt with the collaboration of Simone Alessandrini to sax and electroacoustic interference, a synthesis capable of working even in the clubs more underground London and New York. The spiral continues to rotate in the final brace, “Tech Humana”/ “Growing Spiral”, an obsessive mantra with psychedelic features that sanctions new challengers developments in an electro-wave key.
30/04/2025
Antonio Santini for SANREMO.FM
