THE THRESHOLD OF BEAUTY (ALIO DIE & LORENZO MONTANA)

The second collaboration between Alio Die and Lorenzo Montana - The Threshold of Beauty (2019), will be easier to describe, music wise, as an Alio Die reloaded version of his personal language taken a bit too far.

Lorenzo Montana's music composition stands close to this incidental, quiet untaggable, but made short by different taggings, kind of music, which one of whose frontal founders is Alio Die.

The good news.

I know little about Lorenzo Montana, but Alio Die was on a phenomenal streak, album excellence wise, and he never (and I know as any other of his followers) releases mediocre works, so there is always this permanent warranty of music composition quality, which, to rush things up, is no guarantee, of course, of music composition geniality, which he also has delivered constantly and abundantly.

The "Why is it a ***/* release?".

Its best qualities may well turn adverse. It is too incidental (to call it somehow) in some of its tracks, (by the way there are 6), to actually be enticing in their totality and by Domino effect, they make the whole album too disperse to hook you up and few hooks are thrown (first and last tack) to catch ones full attention.

The result.

As far as constructing living and original soundscapes it is flawless. As far as it being a trip to plan recurrently?

Well, there is where I silently start counting stars.