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The dining rooms.
The dining rooms.
You know that feeling, like when you're about to spend a quiet evening at home, you cook something, and maybe a friend comes over.
Maybe you need an album to help you get culinary inspiration, snack on something, improvise an aperitif, and have a chat.
This is the right album. Behind the English name hides a very Italian duo (Stefano Ghittoni and Cesare Malfatti).
The first is a resident DJ at a well-known Milanese venue (Magazzini Generali) while the second is a founding member of "La Crus."
From this interesting union is born the project The Dining Rooms.
Both protagonists are not novices and after a series of respectable publications even for the foreign market and collaborations with other artists, live sets with real musicians, and live performances accompanied by imaginary and evocative videos, in 2005 their fourth album is released by Schema Records (see Nicola Conte among others).
The album in question is an excellent album with funky-jazz sounds but not only. Electronics, yes, but enriched by the presence and collaboration of real musicians with real instruments.
What becomes immediately clear when listening to the first tracks of this album is the personality and modernity of the sound of this duo that gives us entirely instrumental pieces along with real little gems embellished by the splendid vocals of various singers.
After a few listens, a comparison comes to mind with the more successful works of Thievery Corporation, even if the latter remain decidedly more dreamy and sultry. However, there is clearly an Italian touch that carries on and modernizes the musical discourse initiated by various Pietro Umiliani, Armando Trovajoli, and Morricone.
Their Italian and refined sound becomes modern and brand new, very suitable to be accompanied by images.
A bit like The Cinematic Orchestra, but with more brightness and personality, they deliver high musical moments halfway between jazz contaminated by Hip/Hop and an excellent funk-soul, sometimes driving and sometimes damnably sweet.
A mention deserves the ghost track of the album, which tells us that we have just finished listening to Experiments in Ambient Soul by The Dining Rooms, and after almost two minutes of silence, on a beautiful and paced jazz, many artists are listed who in one way or another have influenced the sound of ours.
In conclusion, an excellent album that simply asks to be listened to and to accompany the images of our life.
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