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Emiliano Deferrari is an Italian musician, songwriter, performer, multi-instrumentalist and music producer, living in Brussels since 2015. He has released several albums with great reviews and played live throughout Europe both as a solo artist and in bands spanning from art rock (Nanaue) and jazz (The Loop Duo), to free improvisation. He has been creating music for dance performances, art installations and for movies. He runs Rattsburg Records, since its foundation in Rome in 2005.
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Musician for his whole life, piano student at six, rock guitarist for rebellion at 16 (and guitarist since then…), later graduated in classical guitar while learning the secrets of jazz harmony. Cinema burst into his life at 19 and since then it was love for writing music for stories. He started with theatre and with short movies, that he still loves to do, meanwhile he was studying classical composition and recording techniques. Finally, he fine-tuned his abilities completing the Master in Scoring for Film, Television and Video Games at Berklee College of Music. He is one half of Nanaue and present in many albums of italian and international artists as guitar player, arranger, mixman.
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Marco Machera is an Italian musician and songwriter, currently living in Brussels. He has released albums as a solo artist and has co-founded the band EchoTest, together with renowned American bassist Julie Slick. During his career, Marco has been involved in countless collaborations, both live and in the studio, with internationally acclaimed artists, such as Pat Mastelotto (King Crimson), Tony Levin (Peter Gabriel, King Crimson), Teho Teardo, Chrysta Bell, and more.
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Nanaue is a creature who irreconcilably fights between the sweetness of love and the carnivorous smell of blood. The band with its name fights its personal battle for the freedom of writing, creativity, anachronistic passion for storytelling, longing for the marriage between free inspiration, sweat of performance and formal research. For those who search for labels, maybe “art rock” is the one that fits better, especially because Matteo Nahum and Emiliano Deferrari, both multi-instrumentalists, came to this project after many solo works and the most different artistic collaborations, strictly musical (jazz, prog, song-writing, klezmer) but also related to dance, theatre, performances and visual art. Nanaue is a band and writes songs, and many of them are published by Rattsburg Records, in the unusual form of singles and Christmas singles! They are working on the long-awaited second album which will be out in 2021 and the most funka-progga-popdelic production of their career.