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*** GRAND TOURISM

GRAND TOURISM

(Cyber Octave)

Two musicians who are not exactly household names — Chris Canavaggio and Bob Farrel — have put together a 13-track debut CD that evokes, and lives up to, all kinds of disco expectations, from the blissed-out hard house of DJ Danny Tenaglia’s Tourism to samba themes, Parisian variété, fusion, and European dream pop of all kinds. “Act of Love” sounds exactly like its title, gentle and enthralled. If the luminous dreaminess of “Jim Clark Theorem” doesn’t get you humming, the daft funk of “Romantic Hold Up” will. Equally rapturous are the ephemeral “Variations sur Emma Peel” and Terry Callier’s disco-crooned “Les courants d’air.” Canavaggio and Farrel write all manner of rhythms — house, hip-hop, funk, orchestral trance, and dream pop — that sound comfortably familiar and teasingly novel at the same time. Their singers move from intoxicating lullaby to horny elegance, managing to sound both intimate and articulate. Looking bookishly glamorous while slinking to orgasm, sure — but that’s disco.

— Michael Freedberg