When all the pieces of the puzzle fall together. The live performance of his first album ‘Opposite Minds‘ together with the Brussels singer Mewhy, the Zemst DJ Nico Morano (42) will remember for a long time.
A party that bills itself as a Rooftop Sunset Dance is easy to juggle in electronic dance music. But for Morano’s first full-fledged LP, that label was more than appropriate. The roof was on the eleventh floor of the Soko business building in Kraainem. A unique location: not only because the dance was performed for the first time, but especially because of the heavenly panoramic view above the Sonian Forest.
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That the Sunset on Sunday October 8 became one straight out of our Indian Summer was unexpected. When Mewhy unleashed his dreamy vocals on the happy few at 6 p.m., the screen on our smartphone showed 22 degrees and full sun. With Morano having already provided the ideal melodic warm-up between 4 and 6 p.m. and adding another solid hour after 7 p.m., the sunset over the Sonian Forest must have rarely been so atmospheric.
LOOK. Morano and Mewhy with ‘One too many times’ in Kraainem
“I can still see him coming to my home in my studio on his mobile,” said Nico Morano, when we asked him how the collaboration with Mewhy – aka Gilles Verhaegen – came about. “In February 2020 I was looking for a singer for one song, Bingo. I came into contact with Gilles through my management, although they immediately said that he was a somewhat ‘timid’ guy. But when we met in Café Belga on Place Flagey, I immediately felt a connection. A day later he was already in Zemst and we sang that song. Cool… until the pandemic broke out a month later. And because we both just got out of a breakup, we became corona buddies. One song became two, three,… which we were always very enthusiastic about. Single-worthy songs.”
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“I could have released them all separately through different labels to gain as much global visibility as possible, but we thought it would be much more fun to – sorry for the cliché – release this as a story in one album on my own label ‘Ontourage’. You don’t have to look far for the title ‘Opposite Minds’: Gilles mainly makes songs of about three minutes for the French-speaking market, while I make electronic tracks of often more than seven minutes for the club circuit or Spotify. Musically we are real opposites. (laughs) And in even more areas, actually. Don’t do a photo shoot with us.”
© Jules Juten.
Morano and Mewhy concluded with ‘Juno Love’, the former’s most recent hit, which is also regularly played by the popular German collective Keinemusik (see video below), but in the near future they will focus on ‘One too many times’ in which their opposite minds blend perfectly, with a breakbeat that transitions into a club track. With Harvey there is even a track with only 83 beats per minute, one that they simply couldn’t play yesterday because it was too slow. And that wouldn’t even have fit into the perfect picture above Kraainem yesterday.
Listen to ‘Opposite Minds’ HERE
© Jules Juten.
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