Music from the Lounge cs765

Don’t be fooled by the title. The aforementioned lounge does not refer to any refined chill-lounge music, aimed at relaxation, or to a more chic easy listening. The lounge in question is the “Salotto in prova”, a place dedicated to contemporary music in Milan, where the two authors, Andrea Bolzoni and Francesco Zago, recorded this CD just over two years ago, on January 30, 2021. We were still in the total absence of concerts, in the midst of the Covid emergency and this CD seems to be the result of this period of lack of communication between artists and the public. I think that the musicians’ impossibility to perform, to be able to play together, to carry out their normal activities, has generated a creative growth, accelerated by forced inactivity and forced self-isolation by the virus. Each artist reacted in his/her own way, there were those who published a new song on Bandcamp, a new improvisation with an almost obsessive cadence, as if to exorcise their forced isolation with a bulimic activity, others took advantage of this period to begin to elaborate, in silence as loud as possible, new projects, n ew ideas, arriving only now to publish an album, the result of a very careful work of elaboration and revision. I think this is the case with this CD. “Music from the Louge”, released by the Portuguese independent label Creative Source Recordings in December 2022, made by Andrea Bolzoni and Francesco Zago. Andrea Aguzzi (Neuguitars)