DRIFT LAB

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It is rare that instrumental projects by Italian players having roots in jazz, rock and fusion music manage to capture music lovers’ attention worldwide.

It only happened in the Seventies, when Italian most creative and virtuoso musicians brought their own way of interpreting progressive music around the world.

Today such rare thing is happening in a different way and outside traditional discography to our “faboulous four”: Manuele Montesanti (Piano/synth), Federico Malaman (electric bass guitar), Daniele Chiantese (drums) and Matteo Mancuso (electric guitar); they are inspired by Bach, Miles Davies, Frank Zappa and by the best fusion music. You can easily tell they studied all these genres deeply.

The connection with these musical worlds is exactly the reason why they met. Sound design experiments via software and an in-depth knowledge of synthesizer programming are at the basis of Drift-Lab musical composition, as originally conceived by Manuele Montesanti. The fluidity of Chiantese’s groove, the playful Malaman’s virtuosity
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DRIFT LAB Moonlight album cover 3.00 | 1 ratings
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