Disco Romance vinyl

Mordisco back the multi-format reissue of Disco Romance by Sally Shapiro, a sensitive and luxuriant debut record from a contemporary Italo disco and synthpop act whose identity is not at all as it seems. First cropping up on the Austrian label Diskokaine before migrating to their longtime Canadian hosts Paper Bag Records, the artist(s) operating under the name lasted an admirable while in the guise of a Swedish solo indie pop regina. In actual fact, and in a move that invited more questions than settled answers, "Sally Shapiro" was later revealed to be a duo, with instrumentals produced by ambient mastermind Johan Agebjorn in cahoots with an anonymous singer. The music is as inscrutable as the story behind it, day-dreaming up bleary terrains of synthetic, snow-sheeted sonic pine forest, with Sally's ponderous bel canto vocals serving to melt and part the icy seas around it. Mordisco here release the fittingly hued white marbled vinyl version.