D'ISCO - MORNINGS (OFFICIAL VIDEO)

From Sofia to New Orleans | The Dawn Breaks with D’ISCO

Once the humble city of Sofia was his dawn, and now it’s New Orleans embracing his rise. Fingering the subtle rhythms of the awakening day, Bulgarian born, America based artist D’ISCO, christened Branimir Aleksandrov, weaves a universal urban symphony of both cities stirring alongside the rooster crows in small towns and hamlets.

His debut single “Mornings”, offers an evocative and gritty portrait of how a city, even one as seemingly vibrant as New Orleans, awakens – replete with its romance and grim reality. He masterfully captures the cityscape’s metamorphosis from tranquil ghost towns to bustling hubs alive with newspaper peddlers, chirping cleaning crews, and doughnut hawkers unfolding their day.

Launched amid the Covid 19 crisis, D’ISCO’s creative upsurge resonates with his intriguing initiation to music that began in the post-communist Bulgarian landscape. A chance encounter with a Def Leppard album planted a defiant seed in the 13-year-old Aleksandrov. Parents perplexed, a teacher was hired, passion blossomed, and a band was formed. DULLO resounded with the youthful enthusiasm of six musicians fighting the practical crunch of scarce instruments and meagre resources.

As the mandatory military service eclipsed DULLO’s brief existence, D’ISCO’s identity continued to take form in the furtive acoustics developed with Bogdan Bogdanov. These young artist’s preliminary recordings, radiant with potential despite the quality, received encouraging comments fostering hope during the bleak hiatus hammering their musical dreams.

Today, D’ISCO’s music, unique as “Pink Floyd-esc” tinged with electronic timbre, effuses an experimental electronic aesthetic. As testament to D’ISCO’s resilience, his tracks involve a ‘work in progress’ ethos, his art always alive in the flux of growth and transformation. As he readies several tracks and a video release, fans can anticipate new dawn-chasing melodies from his sonic repertoire.

Collaboration with the likes of Robert Miles wouldn’t seem out of place for this versatile artist, a synergy of classic influence meeting introduced freshness. D’ISCO emphasises that an artist’s exposition to their lovers remains unrestricted by temporal constraints. At forty-four, with a successful career and a prosperous Air BnB venture, he took up his long-abandoned guitar mid-pandemic. Turning quarantine into a creative sanctuary, D’ISCO navigated the challenging acronym of DAW, Ableton, overcoming a two-decade hiatus to present “Mornings”.

Straddling past and present, tradition and innovation, the rural and the urban, D’ISCO is on a continuous quest for varied sounds, bobbing and weaving his experiences into his work. Even as he traces his journey from Bulgaria, through Switzerland and America, he carries with him the background score of those early mornings in Sofia and now imparts it to New Orleans.

Branimir Aleksandrov keeps crafting early morning symphonies as D’ISCO. Treading beyond time and geographical boundaries, he is an artist reborn to capture the minute intricacies of the waking dawn. His song is a gentle reminder that even amidst life’s mundane daily grind, there is music – if only we take a moment to listen. Regardless of where the sun first hits, the ubiquitous rhythm of D’ISCO’s “Mornings” persists.

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