Le Brame, the solo project of Tuscan artist Federico Piegaja, crafts a sound that feels like stepping through the velvet curtains of a lost European nightclub, where Italo disco’s unabashed dance beats collide with the avant-garde minimalism of French synthwave architects like Martin DuPont. Piegaja draws from the glossy strangeness of Franco Battiato, the aching glamour of Matia Bazar, and the restless spirit of Litfiba, pulling their spectral signatures into a sharper, stranger future.
His new LP, Universi Paralleli, is less a collection of songs than a map of parallel realities: imagined cityscapes where neon flickers on rain-slick streets and radio towers hum with forgotten frequencies. The album track and single, Realtà, is a dazzling dispatch—cinematic, strange, and immediate.
Piegaja’s vocals, sung in lush Italian, swirl through crystalline synths, shrouded in vocoder whispers and propelled by urgent analog rhythms. The result lands somewhere between the cold elegance of Martin DuPont, the misty darkwave melancholia of Clan of Xymox, and the buoyant, bittersweet rush of vintage Italo beats. Flourishes of contemporary synth romantics like Drab Majesty and Black Marble drift through the mix, but Le Brame remains uniquely his own—offering sleek, serpentine beats stitched with sorrow and sudden bursts of euphoria.
Listen to Realtà below and order Universi Paralleli here.
Universi Paralleli is a tightrope walk between glitter and gloom—a record that dances on the edge of dream logic, where steel-tipped beats duel with distant daydreams, and strange transmissions seep through the cracks of the everyday world.
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