Laila Dejan Terzic & Melanoia

• 1Laila05:01
• 2Di Te Dei No Non So03:30
• 3Lenzuolata03:52
• 4Senza03:55
• 5Mathair02:49
• 6Credo Alle Favole03:46
• 7Il Gioco04:49
• 8Tu Sei Qui04:32
• 9Quanto Ancora04:09
• 10Expériences Sur Le Mouvement Perpétuel04:08
• 11Tutto È Luce04:02
• Total Runtime44:33

Info for Laila

Sometimes it needs just a brief instant for music to find its way from our ears straight to our heart. The songs of singer and theater actress Serena Finatti and guitarist Andrea Varnier have the rare quality of immediately enchanting the audience. It's not by accident that the acoustic duo 'Deja' earned the top spot in 2009 at the renowned Open Strings guitar festival in Osnabrück.

The interaction of the two classically-trained musicians, who met in 2006 in Udine, Italy, is remarkable: On 'Laila', their debut album for Acoustic Music Records, the guitar and vocals play with each other intuitively, with elements from traditional Italian song, the classical musical tradition and the timeless art song with a theatrical flair. Varnier – who was a master student of Andrea DiMarco – convinces the listener with his great diversity of chords and melodies, with unexpected turns of phrase and highly imaginative ornamentations. And he finds a mirror image in the crystal clear and highly expressive voice of his partner Serena Finatti. It is a grand, exciting and fascinating debut by an unusual duo.

Déja is an italian duo, formed by Serena Finatti (voice) and Andrea Varnier (guitar). Before the arrival of Andrea Varnier (in 2005), Déja was a project counting six members. However, after a couple of gigs performed only by Serena and Andrea, given the positive feedback from the audience, they decided to go on as a duo.

Voice and acoustic guitar. The original and iridescent music of Serena Finatti, with the elegant and polyphonic accompaniment of Andrea Varnier’s acoustic guitar. Two artists that have been looking for each other for a long time, and whose encounter gave life to an urgent, exclusive collaboration. Diverse and mixed forming studies live together and still are recognizable in this project, a whole fund of experiences to completely serve the Music, which comes out rich, fresh and alive. They began playing together in 2006, and started recording their first album at the end of that year. The record, titled “Distratti dal vento”, was put out in the April of 2007, distributed by the independent website and label fingerpicking.net. After that they made many concerts in Italy, to promote the cd, and they had warm and enthusiastic responses everywhere.

They started to watch outside of Italy, to expand their audience and popularity, so in 2009 they decided to compete in the “Singer Songwriter Contest” at the Open Strings Festival, held by Peter Finger and Acoustic Music in Osnabruck.

They won the first prize, and so at the end of 2010 they released their first record produced by Peter Finger, titled “Laila”, which features 11 new songs, and was recorded by Sándor Szabó.

Besides music, they're committed in promoting a sustainable lifestyle: animal rights, food and clothes (they're vegan), recycling, human and workers rights, pollution and exploitation of natural resources.

This album contains no booklet.