DRIFT LAB

Jazz Rock/Fusion • Italy

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Drift Lab biography
Drift Lab is a jazz rock project based in Rome that took off in 2020 with a line up featuring Manuele MONTESANTI (piano, keyboards), Federico MALAMAN (bass), Daniele CHIANTESE (drums) and Matteo MANCUSO (guitars). According to their website, they were inspired by BACH, MILES DAVIS, FRANK ZAPPA and by fusion music and the connection with these musical worlds is exactly the reason why they met. In 2023 they self released an interesting instrumental debut album entitled Moonlight where Manuele Montesanti's sound design experiments and synthesizer programming are the basis of musical compositions developed by the creativity and virtuosity of the all musicians involved in the project...

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Moonlight
2023

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Studio Album, 2023
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Moonlight
Drift Lab Jazz Rock/Fusion

Review by andrea
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— First review of this album —

Drift Lab is a jazz rock project based in Rome that took off in 2020 with a line up featuring Manuele Montesanti (piano, keyboards), Federico Malaman (bass), Daniele Chiantese (drums) and Matteo Mancuso (guitars). According to their website, "they were inspired by Bach, Miles Davis, Frank Zappa and by fusion music" and "the connection with these musical worlds is exactly the reason why they met". In 2023 they self released an interesting instrumental debut album entitled "Moonlight" where Manuele Montesanti's sound design experiments and synthesizer programming are the basis of musical compositions developed by the creativity and virtuosity of the all musicians involved in the project...

The beautiful title track, "Moonlight", opens the album with pulsing bass lines, hectic drumming and delicate melodic breaks that drive you through metropolitan dreams under the moon and the city lights... Next comes "Murano", another excellent dreamy track full of dappled colours and soft atmospheres. The title refers to a locality in the Venetian Lagoon, best known for its glass making...

"King Of Nothing" is darker. It opens with the bass in the forefront and goes on with a perfect interaction with the other instruments evoking a strange sense of uneasiness while the following "M-I-M-M-A" is lighter and carefree, almost suitable for dancing...

"Chatterland" is calmer and with a laid back attitude. The great technicality of the solos never clouds the sense of melody and musicality of the piece... Then it's the turn of "Japanese Experiment" a piece that slowly grows to take you to distant territories where all the members of the band showcase their great musicianship...

The brilliant "My Os" blends jazz rock with a touch electronica evoking the development of a very particular operating system and leads to the final track, the reflective, intense "Rebirth"...

On the whole, an excellent album of modern fusion!

Thanks to rdtprog for the artist addition.