Feelin' by Ivory

IVORY / Feelin’ LP / Innervisions

On his debut album Feelin’, Ivory marries hi-tech sound design with the emotional pull of house for 10 tracks shaped by a multitude of club music and R&B. Album opener “Voices” infuses noirish melodrama with playful, pitch-shifted vocals that instantly lighten the mood. Next up, “Blank” draws from a similar blueprint, bolstered by low end pressure and ruptured rhythms.

Ivory explains how “Do It My Way” embodies the underlying concept of Feelin’; “taking something and reworking it into a new shape that reflects your own personality as artist”. A cool electro cut warmed through with a dreamy hook, here, uplifting piano chords set the stage for what happens next. “Feelin’” is a dancefloor slammer, a healthy balance of tension and release that comes with an invite to conquer the floor. Heating up the album’s core, Tagliaferri works up an appetite for “I Need You Now”; a hulking warehouse cut built from barrelling, muscular kicks and a diced up diva house-esque vocal.

For “What I Do,” we are transported to a land of French touch with high-voltage basslines aplenty while the propulsive “Try” pulls the crowd back into room one for a huge, anthemic floor-filler underpinned by jagged synths. Ivory describes “Don’t Lose Control” as “one of the more emotional moments of the LP”; a track centered around dreamy pads, smooth house synth stabs and a disembodied post-human voice that sounds eerily poetic.

The LP’s penultimate track “Steps” leans on swirling, pearlescent keys and a sweet, balearic-tinged melody before “I Know What You Want” offers the ultimate sign-off statement, slicing through the razor-sharp mesh of synthwork with dueling vocals and sparky beats. Ivory creates his music by working with hardware, plug-ins, samples, and field recordings and he bundles all of this know-how into a distinctive album that lends itself to both reflection and liberation.

This latest album from the Milan-based producer, guitarist and DJ Daniel Tagliaferri aka Ivory follows previous releases for Innervisions, Afterlife, Atlant Recordings, Azzur, MoBlack, Kompakt, and more. He dropped the three-track Rain EP for Innervisions sub-label Exit Strategy earlier this year while 2021 saw the release of the Let the Mystery Be EP for Sum Over Histories. As a DJ, he has performed eclectic sets in clubs all over the world, noted for his residency at Milan’s Volt Club.

Milan based producer and DJ he started to captive attention of international audience bringing a surreal beauty to his innovative brand of electronic composition and releasing music on renowned labels as Innervisions, Afterlife, Kompakt and Multinotes.
The Italian has strongly built a name for himself as a one of most interesting producer in the electronic music scene.