Beatrice Antolini - A Due

Beatrice Antolini was born in Macerata, a small town nestled on the beautiful Marche hillside, and plays piano since age three. She studied classical music at the Frescobaldi Conservatory in Ferrara, at the same time playing drums and bass in local rock bands. After a number of unsatisfactory stints in various groups, in late 2005 she began recording a series of demos that would become the core of her first album Big Saloon, released by Italian label Madcap Collective to excellent reviews in 2006. Two years after the release of  her previous album Big Saloon, Beatrice Antolini unleashes her brand new record A Due. While her profile grew constantly (thanks to endless touring, prestigious collaborations with Italian mainstream artists like Baustelle and Bugo and press features on major magazines), she took her time to work on the new songs and the final result is a new album overflowing with fresh ideas and bold arrangements. Written, arranged and produced by Beatrice (who also played nearly every instrument), A Due marries the mutant avant-pop sounds of her first LP with a new-found sensivity and attention to production detail. Listening to the weird, dizzy pop rollercoasters that are Double Jay and Sugarise or the hazy, psychedelic atmosphere of Morbidalga is like embarking for a very strange trip that includes stops like the bizarre latin rock-meets-new wave A new life and the amazing 50’s tearjerker Clear my eyes. Still, everything is kept under control by Beatrice’s songwriting and production skills, happily marrying acoustic and electronic sounds in an artistic tour de force that never seems forced or contrived. Perfectly  at ease with influences as disparate as Italian masterful chansonnier Paolo Conte and the Talking Heads at their most neurotic, Beatrice crafted a lush, adventorous and absolutely unpredictable album that sounds like nothing else coming out of Italy. A Due was recorded by Davide Cristiani at Bombanella Studio and mixed by Marco Fasolo ( Sub Pop’s Jennifer Gentle mainman) at his Ectoplasmic studio.

Tracks :

1) New Manner
2) Funky Show
3) Morbidalga
4) A New Room For A Quiet Life
5) Modern Lover
6) Clear My Eyes
7) Pop Goes To Saint Peter
8) Sugarise
9) Secret Cassette
10) Double J
11) Taiga.

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