{"id":296,"name":"Stefano De Santis","url":"https:\/\/linktr.ee\/stefanodesantis","description":"Rome based, Stefano De Santis is conservatory trained and raised on the music of\r\nHerbie Hancock, Weather Report and Azymuth.\r\nHe has been a go-to session player in many projects across multiple genres - from jazz to funk, reggae, and pop. In 2017, he launched the \u2018Big Beat\u2019 trio who blended pure jazz with new synth sounds and syncopated drum patterns. Later, in 2020, Stefano teamed up with his friend and consummate drummer, Gaetano De Carli to form Re:Fill. Since then, the duo have taken their music to a further level and developed a brace of imaginative and complex grooves. Gaetano provides a rich musical background to combine with Stefano\u2019s soulful synth-work, balancing the old world and the contemporary. Their first record, \u2018Cycles\u2019, on Cognitiva Records, was released in June 2022 and features important collaborations with heavy-hitters from the UK\u2019s DJ- producer scene, Ben Hauke and WheelUp.\r\nStefano has really pushed his musical boundaries on this solo excursion ,\u201cUnreachable Galaxy\u201c EP (Ramrockrec), highlighting his jazz-funk roots and ever developing studio production skills. This EP showcases Stefano\u2019s diverse palette of sounds where he effortlessly blends a flowing broken beat rhythm section, next level hip hop, future jazz, latin and funk throughout the entire project.\r\nHis last release is a new 7inch, titled Barra Nova, out for TenLoversMusic.\r\nThe recording\u2019s title track, builds off the energy of Stefano\u2019s\u2019 recent Ten Lovers Music track \u201cSong For George D\u201d (2022\u2019s Best of Various), blending together Brazilian- influenced jazz fusion, cosmic keyboard grooves, and broken beat rhythms primed for the dancefloor. On the flip, the Stefano slows things down a bit on \u201cPartido#2\u201d, with a more balearic-meets-broken beat vibe. For the two-track session, Stefano plays a number of keys including Rhodes, Moog, Prophet 5, Solina Strings Ensemble, Juno 6, and upright piano, as well as the percussions on the recording.","link":"https:\/\/motionfm.com\/wp2014\/author\/stefanodesantis\/","slug":"stefanodesantis","meta":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/motionfm.com\/wp2014\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/296"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/motionfm.com\/wp2014\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users"}]}}