After Life, Somewhere between life & death

In 2016 the duo Tale Of Us launched Afterlife: “somewhere between life and death.”
A project that right from the start shows to have everything it takes to be defined as an artistic and cultural current .
After life is a meeting point between art and music, it has the ability to move the listener, sweeping him into a vortex at the center of which is the “conciousness”.
A current that offers us a complex language made up of sound and visual forms, that sets itself apart from anything we’ve seen in the past.
The sound language is characterized by arpeggiated minor melodies. The chords are generally clean and delicate with a long reverb and stereo delay. These sounds, in turn, are accompanied by ambient pads and deep, rolling bass lines. Mixed together, they create a spiritual and hypnotizing atmosphere reminiscent of early trance sounds.
After life mirrors the soul of anyone who wants to leave behind “the daily chaos” of problems, stresses and anxiety. The experience is extremely personal and makes its way into each person in a very different way according to experience and sensitivity. Everything revolves around the “self” that lets itself be moved and amazed, through images and sounds that reflect the conscious and subconscious of each of us.
The attention that is put into the music-visual art relationship is evident. In fact, from the very beginning there has been an intention to “tie” a specific visual aesthetic to the music they produce. The futuristic scenarios, the relationship between “robot” and “human”, who are respectively a reflection of what “life isnt” and what “life is”, in scenes, often represented animated, created by Alessio de Vecchi.
They were able to deeply link the musical part with the visual one: we can easily observe this within the exhibition “let’s get digital!” held in Florence during summer of last year, where De Vecchi’s work was displayed in a dedicated room, with a track by producer Anyma played on loop. The atmosphere was thus created, reflective and almost alienating, if one allowed oneself to be captivated by the assumptions about the meanings that audio and visual work together created, it almost felt as if one were being transported elsewhere.
From 2016 to the present, this current has grown exponentially, thanks in part to countless showcases that have made a world considered abstract by many a reality.
Tale of us through the After Life parties offer a rather complex audio visual show, an experience that not even the most quotable artist in the mainstream would be able to offer their supporters.
A show that touches 360 degrees all artistic branches, starting from music and ending with cinema.
The venues are carefully chosen and play a big role in the immersiveness of the experience. Large screens behind the console play looped animations of the subjects created by De Vecchi; together with ledwork they create a truly spectacular show, which no longer means only music. In fact, the audience gets caught up in the atmosphere, and unlike any other DJ set you often don’t see anyone dancing.
In a saturated world where: artists, A&R and promoters offer clubbers garbage, we should start making culture by taking realities like these as a model.