DOS Duo Onirico Sonoro

di Claudio Lancia

DOS, short for Duo Onirico Sonoro, is a project born from singer and pianist Annalisa De Feo. From 2011 the musician spent three years living in Berlin, a city where she had the chance to discover and absorb new sounds, experimenting with collaborations. Back in Italy, in 2016 she released her debut self-titled album, alongside jazz-trained drummer Marco Libanori. In 2018 “Jouer et danser” allowed the duo to rack up numerous shows, both in Italy and abroad.

The pandemic slowed but didn't halt Annalisa's artistic path: in 2022 she recorded the soundtrack for the docufilm “Nelle terre dei Caetani,” directed by Gianfranco Pannone. In 2023 Duo Onirico Sonoro released the album “Floating,” this time without Libanori on drums and percussion, but with the collaboration of multi-instrumentalist and producer Nick Valente. Shortly after, the project became a duo in the full sense once again, thanks to the permanent addition of cellist Livia De Romanis. With this renewed lineup, 2025 brings the breakthrough record, “Tech Humana,“ which leaves jazz behind for good to push toward a perfected balance between refined modern classical and convincing electro surges, all while keeping a firmly experimental edge.

The opening is entrusted to the dissonant notes of the cello and a metallic object scraping the piano strings: an incipit that smacks of avant-garde experimentation, a search for unusual, unorthodox sound. "All About Thinking" restores a kind of provisional calm, with the two instruments chasing each other, shaping a soft dance that skilfully ripples through a crescendo fuelled by the intervention of Jacopo Ferrazza's double bass. In the album's overall balance, the following "Kalim" instead brings a distinctly exotic touch, through the sound of the kalimba and a piano that at times embroiders motifs with an unmistakable Latin flavour.

"From Deep Of The Air" is the most canonically modern-classical track, a marvel that sits somewhere between the evocative visions of Sakamoto and the melancholic urban impressionism of Dardust. Through "Tala", a successful experiment for cello, electronics and voice (but a voice as it might be treated by Arca), the scenery changes completely: "Shifting Landscapes" is the fine summation of Annalisa's Berlin years, another crescendo, but this time conceived from the point of view of the beatmaker, built with the collaboration of Simone Alessandrini on sax and electroacoustic interference, a synthesis capable of working in the trendiest clubs underground in London and New York. The spiral keeps spinning in the closing pair, "Tech Humana"/"Growing Spiral", an obsessive mantra with psychedelic traits that marks new, challenging developments in an electro-wave vein.

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