Around sunset, whether it’s the sunset of the day or the sunset of reality as we’ve come to expect it, all that’s left to do is start dancing. And that’s exactly what the well known Italian musician Bruno Dorella does with his new project Carte Gold, debuting with Vespro EP, out today February 6th, 2026 on vinyl and digital.
Carte Gold is eclectic like every Dorella’s sonic adventure, yet it can be defined as dance in some way. Carte Gold was born from Bruno Dorella’s clubbing experience as a DJ, gained in recent years, and from the need to produce his own material to play at events. For many years, Dorella has also a regular show on Radio Raheem and occasionally collaborates with Radio Kiosk in Brussels, where he lives.
In order to have a complete picture of Dorella’s recent artistic evolution, as well as the inputs that led him to differentiate his solo career now giving life to Carte Gold, we must remember his increasingly intense activity in contemporary dance with the group nanou (which resulted in the electronic music records Paradiso and redrum under the name Bruno Dorella) and the “doom dance” turning point undertaken by his legendary experimental noise band OvO with last year’s internationally acclaimed album Gemma.
Title track Vespro progresses through its nearly ten-minute run time with a soft, relaxed tempo, concealing a progression of micro-variations and layering. Just A Show, on the other hand, shows the real challenge: reggaeton approached in a slower and futuristic way, free from the genre’s macho clichés, focusing instead on rhythm, and more imaginative and abstract aspects. If You Can Sneeze plays with dance music recalling some of its great classics in a light and vaguely sci-fi way, to close the EP with a track still different from the other two, underlining the polychrome attitude of the project.
