This photogenic Italian couple pose and sing like stars of a romantic soap opera.
Check out the cover portrait of the two of them on horseback all dolled up with somewhere to go.
She looks like she has stepped out of Pre-Raphaelite painting while he is the very model of a well-groomed cowboy troubadour.
The songs on the duo's second album tell of love, war, death and the world of dreams.
In Dove Siamo the action takes place beneath "le lune calanti" (falling moons) while on Hand In Hand Graziano seductively coos "we glide in the moonlight".
Singing in Italian, English and Spanish, the duo, unsurprisingly, sound most natural when using their native tongue. His voice is the more interesting of the two, far less mannered and much more nuanced.
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Overall, there's an impressive style and swagger to their renditions of tango, blues, swing, flamenco and Americana.
It's all very glossily produced and well presented even though ultimately it's all a bit too show-offy; like a B-movie shot in cinemascope.
Ilaria Graziano & Francesco Forni's website
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