Alessandro Biancalana

Former Contributor

alessandro.biancalana@ondarock.it

Born on September 11, 1983, with a degree in computer science earned out of pure passion, he spends his life listening to his emotions. Drawn to Eastern sounds since his earliest teenage years, he listens to anything coming from the Land of the Rising Sun. Alongside that, he's developed a keen sensitivity for electronic music with driving rhythms (techno, house) and, in contrast, for calmer, more sprawling, almost shadowy sounds (ambient and dark-industrial). Over the years, he's refined his musical tastes and come to appreciate pop, not-too-noisy rock, and every kind of singer-songwriter music. He loves sushi, sake served strictly hot, and tempura. He channels his energy into various sports, including tennis and running. He writes his reviews by conveying the emotions he feels while listening, without overloading his writing with purely technical considerations or cross-references.

Monographs and interviews

Agnes Obel	Mono Monograph	Int Interview
Antenne	Mono Monograph
Barbara Morgenstern	Mono Monograph
Bluvertigo – Morgan	Mono Monograph	Int Interview
Boduf Songs	Mono Monograph	Int Interview
Dot Allison	Mono Monograph
Flim	Mono Monograph
Gutevolk	Mono Monograph
Isan	Mono Monograph	Int Interview
Josephine Foster	Mono Monograph
Laurent Garnier	Mono Monograph
Pale Saints	Mono Monograph
Psapp	Mono Monograph	Int Interview
Seefeel	Mono Monograph
Sparkle In Grey		Int Interview
Styrofoam	Mono Monograph	Int Interview
Susanne Sundfør	Mono Monograph	Int Interview
TBA	Mono Monograph

Reviews on OndaRock

A HAWK AND A HACKSAW Darkness At Noon avant-folk	8
ABANDONED TOYS The Witch’s Garden dark ambient, modern classical	7
AGF Dance Floor Drachen electronic, vocals	7.5
AGF Einzelkämpfer glitch	7.5
AGF Source Voice avant-garde	8
AGF Words Are Missing electronic, vocals	8
AGF + ZAVOLOKA/ AGF.3 + SUE.C Nature Never Produces The Same Beat Twice/ Mini Movies ambient-noise, avant-glitch, glitch-pop	7.5
AGNES OBEL Aventine songwriter	6.5
AGNES OBEL Citizen Of Glass classical, pop	7
AKI TSUYUKO Hokane dream-pop-tronica	7
ALL SPEC KIT Busy Topic glitch	8
ANNIE Dark Hearts dream-pop, synth-pop	7
ANNIE Don’t Stop pop	7.5
ANOICE Remmings post-rock	8
ANTELOPE Reflector post-punk	7.5
ANTENNE #3 ambient pop, dark	7.5
AOEMUSIC Songs Such As No Radio Plays electronic	7
AOKI TAKAMASA Fractalized glitch, idm, techno-pop	7
AOKI TAKAMASA Simple Funk glitch, techno	7.5
AOKI TAKAMASA + TUJIKO NORIKO 28 glitch-pop	8
ARCHITECT Lower Lip Interface horror-techno	7.5
ASOBI SEKSU Citrus dream pop, shoegaze	7.5
ASOBI SEKSU Hush dream pop, shoegaze	7
AUDIO BULLYS Higher Than Eiffel crossover	7
AUTOUR DE LUCIE Ta Lumière Particulière alt-pop	6.5
B. FLEISCHMANN I’m Not Ready For The Grave Yet electro, IDM, indie-tronica	7
BARBARA MORGENSTERN BM avant-pop, electronic	7.5
BARBARA MORGENSTERN Doppelstern classical, electro, pop	7
BARBARA MORGENSTERN Sweet Silence synth-pop	7.5
BITCRUSH Epilogue In Waves ambient, post-rock	7.5
BLACK DOG - PLAID Tranklements ambient, electro, IDM, techno	8
BLACK HEARTED BROTHER Stars Are Our Home electronic, psych-pop, space rock	7
BLUESILK Ea modern classical, post-rock	7
BODI BILL Next Time electro-pop, soul	7.5
BODUF SONGS Boduf Songs alt-folk	7
BODUF SONGS Burnt Up On Re-Entry doom-folk, electro	7
BODUF SONGS How Shadows Chase The Balance alt-folk, songwriter	7.5
BODUF SONGS Lion Devours The Sun alt-folk	7.5
BOWERY ELECTRIC Lushlife drone, shoegaze, trip-hop
BOXCUTTER Arecibo Message acid, dubstep, IDM	7
BOXCUTTER The Dissolve electro, funk, techno	7
BREEDERS Mountain Battles alt-rock, sugar-pop	7
BRUNETTES Paper Dolls alt-pop, electro	7
BURBUJA Burbuja avant-pop	7.5
CAMERA OBSCURA My Maudlin Career pop	7
CARL CRAIG & MORITZ VON OSWALD Recomposed: Music by Maurice Ravel & Modest Mussorgsky ambient, classical, techno	7.5
CAROLINE Murmurs glitch-pop	8
CAROLINE Verdugo Hills glitch-pop	7
CAROLINE POLACHEK Does You Inspire You electronic, wave-pop	7.5
CAROLINE POLACHEK Something synth-pop	7
CELESTIAL Crystal Heights dream-pop	7
CHANDEEN Teenage Poetry dream-pop	8
CHRISTIAN LÖFFLER A Forest ambient, techno	7.5
CHRISTIAN LÖFFLER Young Alaska ambient, techno	7
CHRISTIAN PROMMER Drumlesson Zwei future-jazz, house	8
CHRISTIAN RAINER Turn Love To Hate chamber pop, songwriter	7.5
CHRISTINA VANTZOU N°1 ethereal, modern classical	7
CITY CENTER City Center psych-pop, weird	6.5
CLARA MOTO Polyamour electro, minimal, tech-house	7.5
CLIFFORDANDCALIX Lost Foundling 1999-2004 ambient, psych-dream-rock	7
CLOSE Getting Closer downtempo, electro-pop, house	7
CLOUD BOAT Book Of Hours dubstep, electro-soul, songwriter	7
COMANECI Volcano folk-rock	7
CRANES Cranes dream-pop	7
CROSSOVER Gloom darkbeat, synth-pop	7
CRYSTAL CASTLES ( I I I ) dance, electro-punk	7
CRYSTAL CASTLES Crystal Castles ( II ) dance, electro-punk	7
D_RRADIO & LIANNE HALL Making Spaces dream-pop, electro-pop	7.5
DACM Stéréotypie glitch-pop	7
DAMERO Happy In Grey glitch-techno-pop	7
DARKSTAR Foam Island electro-pop	6.5
DARKSTAR North electro-pop	7.5
DAVIDE MATRISCIANO Il profumo dei fiori secchi electronic, pop, songwriter	6.5
DAVIDE MATRISCIANO Traffico di pulsazioni (nove modi di intendere il frastuono) ambient, electro	7
DENIZ KURTEL Music Watching Over Me deep house, electro	8
DENIZ KURTEL The Way We Live deep house	7.5
DJ HELL Teufelswerk electro, minimal, tech-house	7.5
DOKKEMAND Høns! electronic-pop, idm	7
DOT ALLISON Exaltation Of Larks songwriter	8
DØ Shake Shook Shaken electro-pop, synth-pop	7.5
DREW LUSTMAN The Crystal Cowboy broken beat, drum'n'bass, techno	7
EBONY BONES Bone Of My Bones dance-hall, punk-funk, two step	7.5
ECHOES OF THE WHALES Echoes Of The Whales ambient, dream post-rock	7.5
EDIE SEDGWICK Her Love Is Real… But She Is Not avant-rock	7
EDIE SEDGWICK Things Are Getting Sinister And Sinister electro, post-punk	7
EMIKA Drei electro, electroclash, techno	7
EMIKA Dva tech-pop	5
EMIKA Emika dubstep, tech-pop	7.5
EMILIE SIMON The Big Machine chanson, pop	6.5
EMILIE SIMON Vegetal alt-pop	7.5
FALCAO AND MONASHEE Falcao And Monashee alt-folk, pop	7
FALTY DL Hardcourage house, UK garage	7.5
FALTY DL Heaven Is For Quitters classical, downtempo, IDM, techno	8
FALTY DL In The Wild future-jazz, IDM, UK garage	5
FALTY DL You Stand Uncertain dubstep, UK garage	7.5
FEIST The Reminder folk-pop, rock	7
FENTON Pup avant-glitch	7
FILASTINE Dirty Bomb breakbeat, dubstep, grime, hip-hop	4.5
FINN. The Best Low – Priced Heartbreakers You Can Own dream-folk	7.5
FIREFLIES Goodnight Stars, Goodnight Moon folk-pop, lo-fi	7
FLICA Nocturnal IDM, modern classical	7
FLIM Holiday Diary indietronica	7.5
FLUNK Personal Stereo ethereal, trip-hop	7
FOU Procurarsi Guanxi alt-pop	5
FUTURE CONDITIONAL We Don’t Just Disappear synth-pop	7
GEL-SOL K8ema ambient	7
GIANFRANCO GRILLI Ancient Roads ambient, world music	6.5
GIANFRANCO GRILLI Eastern Chillout chillout, downtempo	6
GIRLS IN HAWAII Plane Your Escape alt-rock, indie-pop	6.5
GIULIO ALDINUCCI Tarsia avant-garde, field recordings	7
GO FIND Everybody Knows It’s Gonna Happen Only Not Tonight alt-pop	5.5
GOLD PANDA Good Luck And Do Your Best electro, IDM	7.5
GOLD PANDA Half Of Where You Live downtempo, IDM, techno	6.5
GOLD PANDA Lucky Shiner electro, IDM, techno	7.5
GOLDMUND Two Point Discrimination ambient, modern classical	7
GREIE GUT FRAKTION Baustelle abstract-pop, glitch	7.5
GUS GUS 24/7 dub, house, minimal	8
GUS GUS Arabian Horse house, tech-house	7.5
GUTEVOLK Tiny People Singing Over The Rainbow dream-glitch-pop	7.5
GUTEVOLK Twinkle glitch-pop	7.5
HALOU Sawtooth Ep rock, trip-hop	7
HANS BOUFFMYHRE Goodbye Anxiety minimal, techno	7.5
HARMONIC313 When Machines Exceed Human Intelligence dubstep, electronic, hip-hop	8
HARMONIOUS BEC Her Strange Dreams downtempo, indie-tronica	7
HAUSCHKA Ferndorf modern classical	7
HAUSCHKA Room To Expand field recordings, piano music	7
HELIOS Eingya ambient, electro-acoustic	7.5
HIKARU UTADA Exodus alt-pop	7
HIKARU UTADA Ultra Blue pop	7
HK119 Fast, Cheap And Out Of Control electroclash, songwriter, synth-pop	6.5
HUNDREDS Aftermath electro-pop, indie-pop	7
IKONIKA Contact, Love, Want, Have dubstep, techno	7.5
ISAN Glass Bird Movement electronic, IDM	7
JEAN-PHILIPPE GOUDE Pour L’Instant classical music	7
JENNY HVAL Viscera dream-folk	7.5
JET TRICKS Remote Control break-beat, down-tempo, soul	7.5
JOAO ORECCHIA Hands And Feet folk-tronica, pop	7
JOSEPHINE FOSTER A Wolf In Sheep’s Clothing/ Ein Wolf In Schafspelz Psych-folk	8
JUAN ATKINS The Berlin Sessions techno	8.5
KASHIWA DAISUKE 5 dec. break-beat, IDM	7
KATE HAVNEVIK Melankton electro-pop	7.5
KATHY DIAMOND Miss Diamond To You disco-funk, soul-pop	7.5
KAZUMASA HASHIMOTO Gllia electronic	7.5
KEIICHIRO SHIBUYA Atak000 glitch	8
KEREN ANN Keren Ann folk-pop	8
KILLING JOKE Absolute Dissent heavy metal, punk	6
KREIDLER Den electro, kraut, post-rock	6.5
KREIDLER Tank electro, kraut	8
KRISTIN HERSH Learn To Sing Like A Star folk-rock, singer-songwriter	7.5
LALI PUNA Two Windows electro-pop	6.5
LAPPETITES Before The Libretto avant-glitch	7
LAST DAYS Sea ambient-tronica	7.5
LAST DAYS These Places Are Now Ruins dream-tronica	7.5
LEILA U&I dream-electronica, electro-pop	7
LEO MINOR December heavy post-rock	6
LES FRAGMENTS DE LA NUIT Musique Du Crepuscule neoclassical	7
LHF For The Thrown electronic	7
LHF Keepers Of The Light electronic	8
LIARS Mess electronica, no wave, techno-pop	7
LIBRARY TAPES Höstluft modern classical	7.5
LITTLE DRAGON Machine Dreams electro, funk, synth-pop	7.5
LULU ROUGE Bless You dark techno, trip-hop	8
LUSINE A Certain Distance electronic-pop, IDM, tech-house	7
LUSINE Sensorimotor electro, IDM, synth-pop	7.5
LUSINE The Waiting Room electro, house-pop	7
MAAYA SAKAMOTO Yunagi Loop pop	8
MAIA HIRASAWA Though, I’m Just Me twee-pop	7
MARK VAN HOEN Where Is The Truth ambient, psych-synth-pop	7.5
MARK VAN HOEN You’ll Be Safe Forever downtempo, electro	7
MATTHEW HERBERT Recomposed – Mahler Symphony X abstract-techno, classical	7.5
MELODIUM Cerebro Spin folktronica	7
MELODIUM La Tete Qui Flotte indietronica	7.5
MELODIUM There Is Something In The Universe indie-glitch-tronica	7.5
MIDAIRCONDO Curtain Call abstract-pop, electro-acoustic	7
MIDFIELD GENERAL General Disarray big beat	7.5
MIDORI HIRANO Klo: Yuri classical, glitch-pop	7
MINT The Metronomical Boy ambient, idm	7.5
MITCHELL AKIYAMA Small Explosions That Are Yours To Keep glitch	7.5
MOCK & TOOF Temporary Happiness electro, lounge-pop	7
MOCK & TOOF Tuning Echoes disco, electro-pop	7.5
MODERAT II dubstep, electro, techno	7.5
MOKIRA Persona ambient	7
MONO & WORLD'S END GIRLFRIEND Palmless Prayer / Mass Murder Refrain post-rock	7
MONOKLE Saints dream techno, pop	7
MONTAG Going Places indie-tronica	7
MONTREAL ON FIRE Decline & Fall post-rock, slowcore, songwriter	6
MORAL And Life Is… dream-pop, synth-pop, wave	8
MOSKITOO Drape glitch-pop	7.5
MY FOOLISH HEART Ocean Ocean folk-pop, prog	7
NATHAN FAKE Providence electro, IDM, techno	7
NAVVY Idyll Intangible alt-rock, electro, garage-pop	5.5
NICKER HILL ORCHESTRA All The Different Deaths… And Rebirths post-rock	6.5
NOTWIST Close To The Glass electro-pop, electronic	7
OBSIL Distances avant-garde	7.5
OBSIL Points avant-garde	7.5
OBSIL Vicino avant-garde	7
OH, LAURA A Song Inside My Head, A Demon in My Bed pop	7
OVAL O glitch	8.5
PARRA FOR CUVA Darwiš ambient, deep house, downtempo, electro	7.5
PAT JORDACHE Future Songs lo-fi pop	6.5
PIANA Ephemeral glitch-pop	7.5
PIANA Eternal Castle glitch, j-pop	7
PIANA Muse classical, electro-pop, glitch-pop	7
PIANO MAGIC Closure ghost-rock	7
PILLOW Flowing Seasons glitch-pop	7
PINETOP SEVEN Beneath Confederate Lake folk-country	7
POLIÇA Shulamith downtempo, electro-pop	6.5
PSAPP The Camel’s Back lounge, toy-pop	7.5
PSAPP The Only Thing I Ever Wanted alt-pop	7
PSAPP Tourists toy-pop	7.5
PSAPP What Makes Us Glow toy-pop	7.5
PUMAJAW Favourites dream-pop, folk, trip-hop	7.5
RACOON Little Shapes ambient, idm	7
RADICAL FACE Ghost alt-pop, folk	7
RADIO DEPT. Running Out Of Love dream-pop, synth-pop	7
RAFAEL ANTON IRISARRI Daydreaming ambient, electro-acoustic	7
REDSHAPE The Dance Paradox techno	8
ROOMMATE Songs The Animals Taught Us folktronica	8
ROTTERDAM Cambodia avant, techno	7.5
SALLY SHAPIRO My Guilty Pleasure house-pop, italo-disco	7.5
SANDWELL DISTRICT Feed-Forward ambient, techno	8
SANSO-XTRO Sentimentalist glitch	7
SAYCET Through The Window dream-pop, indietronica	7
SEABEAR We Built A Fire alt-pop, folk	7
SHED Shedding The Past dub, techno	8
SHED The Traveller techno	8
SHUTA HASUNUMA Ok Bamboo glitch-folk	7
SIERPINSKI Evening Water Project post-rock	7.5
SILJE NES Ames Room folk, glitch-pop	7
SIN FANG BOUS Clangour avant-pop, indie-tronica	7.5
SLOW SIX Private Times In Public Places ambient, field recordings	7
SND Atavism glitch, minimal	7.5
SPARKLE IN GREY A Quiet Place electronica, post-rock	7
SPARKLE IN GREY & TEX LA HOMA Whale Heart, Whale Heart field recordings, folk, post-rock	7
SPOON Gimme Fiction alt-rock	7
STYROFOAM We Can Never Go Home electronic	7
SUBTRACTIVE LAD Apparatus ambient, ethereal, shoegaze	7
SUBTRACTIVELAD Where The Land Meets The Sky ambient	7
SUSANNE SUNDFØR Music For People In Trouble songwriter	7
SUSANNE SUNDFØR Ten Love Songs dream-electro-pop	7.5
SUSANNE SUNDFØR The Brothel dream-pop, electro	8
SYCLOPS A Blink Of An Eye disco, electro, future-jazz, house	7
SYNAPSE Raw avant-garde	7
TAKEO TOYAMA Etudes instrumental minimal-pop	7
TALL FIRS Too Old To Die Young rock	6.5
TBA Forget’fulness electro, pop	5.5
TEXTILE RANCH Bird Heart In Wool alt-pop	7.5
THE ADVENTURE Lesser Known synth-pop	6.5
THE ADVENTURE The Adventure 8-bit music, synth-pop	7
THE ASPHODELLS Ruled By Passion, Destroyed By Lust disco, dub, electro, house	8
THE ATOMICA PROJECT Greyscale down-tempo, trip-hop	7.5
THE BIRD AND THE BEE A Tribute To Daryl Hall And John Oates pop	7
THE BIRD AND THE BEE Ray Guns Are Not Just The Future pop	7.5
THE BIRD AND THE BEE The Bird And The Bee alt-pop, dream-pop	7
THE CHAP Mega Breakfast alt-pop, dance	8
THE UNCLUDED Hokey Fright folk, hip-hop	7
THE WINCHESTER CLUB Britannia Triumphant post-rock	5
TILLY AND THE WALL O alt-pop	6.5
TITIYO Hidden downtempo, pop, trip-hop	6.5
TO ROCOCO ROT Instrument electro, motorik, post-rock	7
TOMIKO VAN Farewell pop	7.5
TRESPASSERS WILLIAM Having dream-pop, slow-core	7.5
TROUBLE OVER TOKYO Pyramides electro, synth-pop	7
TUJIKO NORIKO Blurred In My Mirror glitch-pop	7.5
TUJIKO NORIKO Solo abstract-pop	8
TUJIKO NORIKO Trust abstract-pop	7.5
VACABOU Vacabou trip-hop	7.5
VALERIE LEULLIOT Caldeira alt-pop	7
VOKS Astra & Knyst avant-garde, folktronica, world music	7.5
WOODCRAFT FOLK Trough Of Bowland electro-folk	7.5
XELTREI Litotes ambient, modern classical	7
YUICHIRO FUJIMOTO Kinoe avant-garde	7.5
YUMIKO Lividi electro, synth-pop	4

Live reports

Agnes Obel	22/05/2011
Arab Strap	28/07/2017
Isan	19/10/2018
Lali Puna	17/11/2017
Lamb	09/11/2017
Nathan Fake	25/03/2017
Notwist	08/04/2017
Susanne Sundfør	05/03/2018
To Rococo Rot	24/10/2014
Tune-Yards	08/11/2014

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