After their first album, strongly encouraged by Nick Saloman (The Bevis Frond) and entitled "The Smell of The Rainy Air",[1] a self -produced vinyl in January 1991 (published on the day after the outbreak of the Gulf War), the group has acquired a certain notoriety thanks to the welcome of specialized music critics signaled the debut of the band among the best releases of 1991.
[7] The band has also participated in some compilations of Progressive Rock and has published, under Creative Commons, a collection of previously unreleased tracks titled Before and After The Boundary.
This line-up came together in Bari (in Apulia, southern Italy) at Christmas 1985, out of the ashes of the Trio, the Onyx Marker and The Pause, three underground experiences of pre-school era.
In this scenario Edain Danse took shape, a dark-wave project with Antonio Paparelli on guitar, Nico Colucci on bass and Marco Lippe on drums.
This new band clearly resembles Joy Division, Cure and Danse Society (hence the name) and started composing a number of songs that will be presented to the public of Bari in two concerts only.
Despite the favor encountered by the new formation and in clear contrast to the trend music of the time, the project Twenty Four Hours remains a priority for the two surviving members of the band, the Lippe brothers.
Mellow also reprinted The Smell of The Rainy Air on CD, but both products suffered from severe shortages of distribution and advertising, revealing authentic commercial "flops".
Quite unexpectedly, Bernard Gueffier and Alain Robert, after listening to the demo CD declared themselves very interested in the production of Oval Dreams and it was released by the prestigious French label (March 1999).
Italian critics (Rockerilla and Mucchio Selvaggio especially) really appreciated the new work of the band and for the first time, in addition to their reviews, both very positive,[28][29] the two newspapers devoted an entire article to Twenty Four Hours and their music.
[30][31][32][33][34] The publication of Oval Dreams was followed by a time-off of two years, until the summer of 2001 when three of the 4 members met in Fano, the current residence of the keyboardist Paolo Lippe, orphaned by the bassist Nico Colucci who for personal reasons couldn't participate at the meeting.
The songs composed by the three, who see keyboardist and guitarist alternate in the role of bass players, reflect the soft atmospheres (Kid A and Amnesiac Radiohead's lead, but also Brian Eno / Peter Schwalm and Massive Attack) of the music preferred by the band during the sessions.
The result is an album different from the previous ones, very electronic and experimental, whose characteristics are described accurately in the two main Italian reviews (Enrico Ramunni on Rockerilla and Federico Guglielmi of Mucchio Selvaggio).
The contacts with the old members of the band, especially Giovanni Lombardi, Fabrizio Bobba, Michele Deflorio and Nico Colucci have been maintained and remain solid friendships.
The group met during Easter 2015 in Preganziol (TV), Italy and recorded the basics of drum, bass, guitar and piano-keyboards at Studio Magister of Andrea Valfrè, former producer of Le Orme, Eugenio Finardi, Lunapop, Donatella Rettore, etc.
The preview video of the 2nd track "Sister Never Born" inspired by the novel "Voglio vivere una volta sola" by Francesco Carofiglio was released in September 2015 on YouTube and gained consent from English audience too.
[39] The band will collaborate with the founding members of the Tuxedomoon Blaine L. Reininger and Steven Brown for the upcoming sixth album currently in mastering phase.
The album was produced by the Italian label Andromeda Relix and is available in Compact Disc (distributed by Audioglobe) and in "liquid" format on all digital download and streaming platforms.