"Don't be fooled by the title. The aforementioned lounge does not refer to any refined chill-lounge music, aimed at relaxation, or to a more chic easy listening. The lounge in question is the "Salotto in prova", a place dedicated to contemporary music in Milan, where the two authors, Andrea Bolzoni and Francesco Zago, recorded this CD just over two years ago, on January 30, 2021. We were still in the total absence of concerts, in the midst of the Covid emergency and this CD seems to be the result of this period of lack of communication between artists and the public. I think that the musicians' impossibility to perform, to be able to play together, to carry out their normal activities, has generated a creative growth, accelerated by forced inactivity and forced self-isolation by the virus. Each artist reacted in his/her own way, there were those who published a new song on Bandcamp, a new improvisation with an almost obsessive cadence, as if to exorcise their forced isolation with a bulimic activity, others took advantage of this period to begin to elaborate, in silence as loud as possible, new projects, new ideas, arriving only now to publish an album, the result of a very careful work of elaboration and revision. I think this is the case with this CD. Music from the Lounge, released by the Portuguese independent label Creative Source Recordings in December 2022, made by Andrea Bolzoni and Francesco Zago.

Their duo project, Bolzago, is not something that arises in an instant. It is a project that has had a long temporal gestation, as already demonstrated by this video made on October 10, 2020 which already provides us with some anticipations on a music and, above all, a musical dialogue, which is fully implemented in the twilight tones that emerge in this CD. "Music from the Lounge" expresses, in a flow characterized by ten tracks with titles such as "Feldman", "Hypermurmur" and "This night wounds time", a sense and a taste for small things, abandoned tones, a veiled melancholy almost always present. The music of Zago and Bolzoni is expressed through the dilated dialogues between their piano and guitar, and shows a twilight, apparently simple and poetic language that contributes to the expansion of the musical lexicon, creating a sort of space for reflection and thought. A space of contemplation and remembrance, to which is added a sort of epiphany where music becomes a mirror of the outside world, at the time frozen by the fears of Covid, which still mark the soul and emotions of the society in which we live. Music from the Lounge is an intimate and deeply delicate album, listen to it at night, trying to come to terms with yourself."-Andrea Aguzzi, NeuGuitars