The musical duo returns to the digital stores one year after the publication of the first single No One Around, an artistic expression that collected the immediate impressions of what would turn into an epochal crisis, and a few months after the release of A Queen With No Head, the second single accompanied by a bewitching video clip in graphic animation that has garnered widespread approval from national and international magazines and radios. Five pieces proposed, of which four originals plus a tribute to one of the great masters of the musical-literary tradition of our times who most influenced the writing of mLau's lyrics: Just Like Tom Thumb's Blues, elegant, minimal and highly personal electro-folk interpretation of one of Bob Dylan's poetic masterpieces.
The collection is opened by Pinstripe Suit, a piece inspired by a real news story in which the unlikely is intertwined with the cynical cruelty of some aspects of the justice system often hidden from public opinion. It is the story of a young prisoner guilty of a minor crime but who, on the advice of a cellmate, in order to avoid the sentence, decides to fake madness and the diagnosis will lead him to spend about twenty years in a high security psychiatric hospital in Berkshire, falling victim to unlikely but relentless and irreversible medical diagnoses. In an imaginary dialogue between the protagonist of the story and the author of the song, the setting takes on a hellish atmosphere while the calm, the depth of judgment and the subtle irony of the fascinating demon reveal the essence and destiny of a fallen angel.
Blue Boy - Babylon Girl, a song with evocatively erotic and decadent hues, is the story of a tormented, convulsive love, destined to touch the purity of feelings only when the sacrifice of innocence marks the poetic pair of truth and beauty.
To close the circle, the two previously mentioned songs A Queen With No Head and No One Around.
The voice, lyrics and melodies of Maria Laura Ronzoni, teaming up with Massimo Marraccini's rhythmic and harmonic textures, tell of a sound, compositional, musical and literary research of undoubted artistic and cultural value, an attempt to find in beauty a creative response to the profound sense of restlessness, frustration and claustrophobic isolation, a way out of the tangle of an existential condition that sees us human beings, fragile and astonished witnesses of a surreal reality in which we find ourselves alone but inexorably linked to each other and locked up, precisely locked in.