Biography
Italian duo Satelliti originated in 2010 through a series of improvisational gatherings featuring drummer Andrea Polato alongside Marco Dalle Luche, who handled keyboards and electronics, with techno, jazz, and Krautrock serving as primary inspirations. Those encounters yielded multiple live-derived recordings that were subsequently refined into the pair’s debut outing, Im Magen des Kosmos (“In the Belly of the Cosmos”).
Recognition arrived with their follow-up full-length, Transister, issued toward the end of 2013. The record highlighted the band’s psychedelic dimension through driving rhythms and percussive textures, incorporating electronica while periodically shifting closer to their techno roots. Its sound evoked jazz legends Miles Davis and Herbie Hancock as well as Italian compatriots Zu, whereas its quieter passages recalled the avant-garde collective Bohren & der Club of Gore. After the album’s appearance the duo embarked on a European tour, reshaping its compositions for the stage in what they characterized as “taking Bitches Brew to the club.”
Recognition arrived with their follow-up full-length, Transister, issued toward the end of 2013. The record highlighted the band’s psychedelic dimension through driving rhythms and percussive textures, incorporating electronica while periodically shifting closer to their techno roots. Its sound evoked jazz legends Miles Davis and Herbie Hancock as well as Italian compatriots Zu, whereas its quieter passages recalled the avant-garde collective Bohren & der Club of Gore. After the album’s appearance the duo embarked on a European tour, reshaping its compositions for the stage in what they characterized as “taking Bitches Brew to the club.”
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