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Satoshi Takeishi, drummer, percussionist, and arranger is a native of Mito, Japan. While at Berklee he developed an interest in the music of South America and went to live in Colombia following the invitation of a friend. He spent four years there and forged many musical and personal relationships. His interest expanded to the rhythms and melodies of the Middle East where he studied and performed with Armenian-American oud master Joe Zeytoonian. Since moving to New York in 1991 he has performed and recorded in vast variety of genre, from world music, jazz, contemporary classical music to experimental electronic music.

Ken Filiano (born 1952) is an American jazz and orchestral bassist[1][2] based in Brooklyn, New York.[3]

Since the 1970s, Filiano has played or recorded with Anthony Braxton, Fred Ho, Nels Cline, Bill Dixon, Fay Victor, and others.[4][5][6] Filiano is on the teaching roster at the New School in New York.[7] He teaches master classes in bass and improvisation and has a private studio in Brooklyn.

Avram Fefer is an American saxophonist, composer and bandleader, currently residing in New York City. He has been performing and recording since 1990, with eleven album releases as a leader and many more as a sideman. He has performed with world-class musicians throughout North America, Europe, Asia, Africa, and the Middle East, and enjoys collaborations with creative artists of all sorts, including poets, dancers, visual artists, DJ’s, and digital sound designers, among others.

Nel 2013 ha debuttato nella regia d’opera con “Brimborium!”, favola per musica di Mauro Montalbetti, andata in scena al Teatro Grande di Brescia con la direzione del Maestro Carlo Boccadoro.

Brazilian composer, poet and professor, rooted in tradition and in constant search of the new, Armando Lôbo develops varied musical genres and styles, making use of experimental hues in an intense symbiosis with literature, history, philosophy and religion.

Stomu Takeishi (born 1964, in Mito, Ibaraki Prefecture, Japan) is a Japanese jazz bass player. He generally plays fretless five-string electric bass guitar, as well as a Klein five-string acoustic bass guitar. He often uses looping or other electronic techniques to enhance the sound of his instrument.

Alípio C Neto was born in Floresta, “Sertão” of Pernambuco, Brazil. He has played and recorded with several artists, jazz bands and orchestras of Brazilian and African music.

Økapi is Filippo Paolini, an Italian turntablist and sample cutup artist.

JT LEWIS has performed/recorded with over 200 artists from all genres from the Jazz greats such as Stanley Turrentine, Roy Ayers, Herbie Hancock, Lena Horne, and Dave Sanborn, to the Pop icons such as Tina Turner, Sting, Lou Reed, Marianne Faithfull, Elvis Costello, Whitney Houston, Debbie Harry, Garland Jeffreys, and Vanessa Williams, to the Jazz revolutionaries such as Don Pullen, David Murray, Henry Threadgill, Marc Ribot, Sonny Sharrock, Pete Cosey, Bill Laswell, Kip Hanrahan, and many more.