Orange and Mountains - Pareti [Electronic Music]

The Slow Music Movement
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The cover for Orange and Mountain's Pareti album, showing an abstract drawing featuring faces, geometric shapes, and a small figure on a wall. Earth tones and the word 'PARETI' at the bottom.

Orange and Mountains are Edoardo De Din and Lorenzo Pesci - sound designers, producers and music production brothers from Italy, who've been making genre flirting multi-tempo electronic music ranging from the decidedly horizontal to club ready bangers, more dramatic neoclassical infusions and pretty much everything in between.

Electronic music due, Orange and Mountains, in a greenhouse framework; one drinks from a mug, the other looks around. Urban buildings in the background; relaxed atmosphere.

Their new album was written and produced in the Dolomite mountains a couple of years ago, and they've teamed up with one of their live show bookers, Italy's Polysonica festival for its release. I can't lie a few of the tracks are a little too full bodied on the whole for my more delicate electronic sensibilities, but if you're a bit younger then certainly dive into the future-trance of "Bolla D'Aria", the downtempo intensity of, "Senza Sogno", the perky instrumental pop of "Baltic Pine".

Personally I'm feeling their more reflective work, for instance the steadily building, stargazing wonderment of "Via Appia Antica", the pleasantly plodding cinematic electronica of, "Senza Sogno", the quizzical ambient atmospherics of the album title track and the twinkling post rocktronics of "Torna Timur?" and album closing track, "Timur". It's a fine start to finish listen with something for everyone who has an interest in the electronic music condition.

And whilst your online check out the Polysonica Festival which could well be next year's festival holiday, with its mission to bring together experimental electronic, ambient, electroacoustic, classical, and polyphonic music in a dialogue between past and present. If the photos and bookings are anything to go by then the bookers are on their game and the crew have an eye for cool venues and production quality an detail.