Club Paradiso is Gianmaria Gamberini and Luca Montanari. Coming from diverse and ever-evolving music backgrounds, they started their collaborative project in 2016. Romagna is what they call home and also the primal inspiration behind Club Paradiso. Their first album ‘Esotica Erotica Psicotica’ is out on Mondo Groove, follow up to the acclaimed 2017 single ‘Panoramica,’ and is a wonderful patchwork of colors. Opener ‘Romagna Tropicale’ transports Riviera to a tropical island, ‘Tuco’ mixes arpeggiating lines with a western harmonica and a distant spoken, ‘Solo Tu’ with the voice of Francesca Amati is a sensual, slo-mo synth-pop beauty, and ‘Echoes’ a throbbing deep house number. The B-side opens with ‘Flauto Cosmico’, a killer Afro/cosmic track with a folky flute, ‘Okinawa’ has the voice of Niconote aka the legendary Nicoletta Magalotti of Violet Eves fame and it’s simply a memorable song with an eastern vibe in the music, ‘La Rabbia Saudita’, with a special Baldelli & Dionigi featuring, is half part Arabic and half part funky, and the closing track, ‘Mirage’, is, yes, like a mirage. You can’t miss this.

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