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RARO!

And now at last my favourite CD in this month: it’s Sous la robe bleue, first appearance work from a duet from Emilia, whose the only name, AUTUNNA ET SA ROSE, reveals the twilight imaginary subject, bearing atmosphere of the whole CD.

When poetry is the result of a sorrowful intimate spirit and a minimal tick of notes gets wedded to it, then the heart is touched and the record turns again, each time the sky gets redder and redder and the sun lets Selene reign supreme over the ethereal night.

FABIO MASSIMO ARATI (December 1996)

It's about bands like this I love to write, bands that since their first appearance show themselves with a disarming maturity, bands with clear minds from the beginning, because they take every day written in their hearts what they are making.

AUTUNNA ET SA ROSE, that's Daria & Disorder, founded in 1994 this project with the aim to explore several artistic angles, for creating a multi-media program, starting from the literary, theatrical and film interests of the duet. A cultivated work, therefore, winking at some literary tradition that refers to Antonin Artaud's avant-garde genius and to the whole surrealist current, by recovering themes as solitude, despair, a sense of melancholic desolation, an extreme romanticism, and watching on things that could seem petty and negligible to many people, like a sunset or a wing beating of a butterfly. In front of these themes, there's ample room for lyrics, prevailing over music, exquisitely played.

The dramatic immersion of L'Art et la Mort, surely played as Artaud would've imagined, the tragic fairytale of La nascita di Selene (Selene's birth), the evocative and distressing Il cammino di Autunna (Autunna's walk), the romantic beauty of Caresses aux cœurs (Caresses to the hearts, the best song), the funeral march La morte di Virginia (Virginia's death), who weeps "under the blue dress"; as a frame for this imagery ends the decadent Slow rain. Maybe we could compare A&SR with Ataraxia for the showed sensitivity, or else with Goethes Erben for some sound textures, but it would be neither right, nor correct; I rather wish you all could get from this work the same sensations I've been locked up pleasantly in my loneliness by. "Looking for pain is better than suffocating".

OTTAVIO CHIODO (October 1997)

ORKUS

This is a CD that fits for the best in this season.

Slow, tranquilly dreamy and beautiful songs are what the italian band Autunna et sa Rose offers to the listener.

By delightful piano melodies, accompanied by soft keyboard sounds with a female voice - sounding like a sort of mixture of Francesca Nicoli’s (Ataraxia) and Leithana’s (Ordo equitum solis) - that is added, they create a musical concept-work that can lead the listener away towards a completely new world.

The intro-track L’Art et la Mort still reminds the first CD from Ordo equitum solis, but listening to the following songs, you lose at once the sensation - in fact here just tasted - they are giving you a mixture of some already existing things. Therefore, though the comparisons with the two above-named bands, the result is an absolutely autonomous "sound-collage" that deserves to be listened.

STEFAN WALTHER (December 1996 / January 1997)

ROCKERILLA

Though the substantial differences, there is a point of contact between the two CDs here named, and not only because they both are first appearance works, but rather for a bit hedonistic component of contemplation dancing across their grooves: the first artists are in fact moved by a romantic-decadent soul, while the second ones are pervaded by a detached intellectual temper. About Autunna et sa Rose, coming from Ferrara, you can tell of "twilight melodies" in every respect, the ones inspired by Artaud’s and Lautréamont’s tales, where nightmares and dreams, joy and pain are often intertwined and mingled in an inner suffering without solution of continuity. Sous la robe bleue is quite a psycho-drama with mystic contours, destinated to have a hold over the hearts, thanks to idyllic lunar harmonies and to the dreaming singing presences by Daria and Disorder, true wandering spirits in this "Autumn garden" lost in the folds of time.

ALDO CHIMENTI (February 1997)

 by FLAVIO FURLAN