R&S Records [Release date: 24.03.23 - Digital 24.04.23 - Physical]
If you want a great groove to start the New Year, head this way. Fed Conti is an Italian producer and multi instrumentalist and his latest project is quite wonderful.
The tracks mix electronica, trip-hop beats, rock and jazz funk, with a funky electric piano and nice atmospherics.
Once ‘We Are The Night’ breaks into one humongous groove, the sound is totally captivating. There is a world music feel to the lyrics which only add to the intrigue and then that Lonnie Liston Smith piano comes in to reinforce the song’s early expectation. For lapsed funkateers, heaven.
To coin a cliche: If you don’t move to this, check your pulse.
‘Nobody Screams’ features the vocals of La Boutique (who?) with solitary brass hooking us into a decidely synthwave workout. The instrumental ‘PROGedia’ fuses chill-out beats and smooth jazz.
Apparently ‘Dioscuri’ developed naturally as Conti embraced different genres but all rooted in the groove and his club-ready production credentials.
Some of these tracks have an almost mantra-like hypnosis. Conti has been influenced by Vangelis, Zappa and even Led Zeppelin but this album is very much his own vision. ‘There’s A Horse In My Closet’ is a track that I am sure Jeff Beck would have loved to have played on with guitar punctuating the relentless drone rhythm.
More riffery and distorted keys a la Deodato and a Stone Roses-esque vocal on ‘Down’ whilst ‘Aaron In The Sky With Almonds’ is like something from a film thriller soundtrack but with a cool jazz feel.
‘Dioscuri’ stands above much predictability these days and transcends what you might sometimes call “chill-out” or even, disparingly, “lift” music. It demands a wider audience than in the elevator and, with that, one prepared to shake their booty. ****
Review by David Randall
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