DECIMO CERCHIO (WITH "I SINCOPATICI")

Italian voice artist Claudio Milano's most current release is collaborative album with trio "I Sincopatici", an imaginary live soundtrack to classic silent movie "L'Inferno" of 1911. Milano's music was always very theatrical, here it is very cinematic. Starting from Italian Neorealismo movies, country developed strong tradition of soundtrack music well known around the world. Combination of deep classical roots, strong music education, rich orchestration and soulful and tuneful themes build a strong reputation for this genre.

Being an obvious leftfield work, "Decimo Cerchio" successfully combines dramatic melodic-ism and deep rich theatrical sound of old Italian soundtrack school with operatic vocals, minimalist electronics, loops, broken songs' structures and rhythms, amorphous sound and radical vocalize in Diamanda Galas key. Rock music of 70s influence is obvious in a moments as well.

The album is fulfilled with lyrics, all in Italian, and even if there are English translations added, it is obviously great to understand Italian for stronger impression. Still, as in classic Italian operas, one can perfectly accept whole action without understanding of lyrics. Full of emotions, very dramatic and dynamic, musical action attracts enough attention itself.

For newcomers to Milano's music it's important to note that, as on almost very his work, Claudio is an experimenting artist, so be ready to hear lot of unusual and even in-expecting things here.