ELODIE Schallplatten & CDs

Review: Elodie Di Patrizi is an Italian pop singer. She first came to prominence as the runner-up on the fifteenth season of the show Amici di Maria De Filippi. This is her fourth album titled Ok Respira and features a wide selection of songs which demonstrate her many diverse talents as an artist. Whether it's Eurodance, EDM, deep house/disco, and straight-up pop that she's made her name with, and of course there's the song 'Due' which she premiered at this year's edition of San Remo Music Festival to much fanfare.

Review: Andrew Chalk and Timo Van Luijk have been garnering praise for their work as Elodie for over a decade now, establishing themselves on the European ambient circuit as fine purveyors - nay, creators - of blissful music by way of improvisational techniques and processes. Not that you'd be able to tell given how finished and fully formed things sound on every track.

The two offered here are a case in point. Look beneath the hood though, and you start to see the tell-tale signs that not everything here was planned. It's too good, and feels too natural for that to have been the case - beautiful moments captured in a crystalline recording, never to be repeated again. From waves of background synth to chimes, twinkles and serene oceans of atmosphere, it's really rather special stuff.