The Strato Ensemble* – Drawn Straws

The Stratos Ensemble - Drawn Straws album cover

Label:	Fateless Music – none
Format:	9 x File, MP3, Album, 320 kbps
Country:	US
Released:	2007
Genre:	Electronic, Jazz
Style:	Free Improvisation, Fusion, Smooth Jazz

Tracklist

1	Empowering Gamesake	24:05
2	Thou Dire Lull	4:00
3	The Motion Of You	17:47
4	Trenches	4:12
5	Finding 7.4 Corners	3:28
6	Galaxing	4:35
7	A Thorough Season	4:11
8	On Thundering Sky Larkers Likeness	9:31
9	Higher Loosing	7:56

Companies, etc.

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Credits

Bass – Giuseppe Patanè (2) (tracks: 1, 7), Mick Stevens (2) (tracks: 5)
Bass [Overdubbed Bass], Synth – Dean De Benedictis (tracks: 2)
Drums, Keyboards – Dean De Benedictis (tracks: 5)
Drums, Photography [Group Photo] – Andrea "Jako" Giacomini* (tracks: 1-4, 6-8)
Electric Guitar – Takeshi Nishimoto (tracks: 1, 3, 5, 7-9)
Keyboards, Producer, Cover [Cover Art], Illustration – Dean De Benedictis
Photography [Cover Photo] – David Israel (5)
Photography [Group Photo] – Christian Fayette
Piano [Overdubbed Piano Improvisation] – Dean De Benedictis (tracks: 4)
Saxophone [Overdubbed Saxophone Improvisations] – Jim Goetsch (tracks: 3, 8)

Notes

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.