The Strato Ensemble

In the fall of 2003, Dean De Benedictis (Surface 10) called up his fellow recording artists Giuseppe Patane (Maata Haari), Andrea "Jako" Giacomini (Socadia), and Takeshi Nishimoto (I'm Not A Gun) to start a project that would keep their chops up while at the same time keep their musical roots in tact. The result was an LA-based, improvisational jazz ensemble with an alternative/progressive sound tenuously campared to that of Tortoise, Weather Report, Soft Machine and ECM jazz artists from the 70's and 80's. Fateless has compiled the ensemble's best jam sessions as a CDR release for 2007 called Drawn Straws. To hear clips of Drawn Straws CLICK HERE

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