Born in 1989, Antonio is a drummer, multi-instrumentalist, arranger, electronics programmer, and mix engineer. He began studying drums at the age of six and, by the time he was eighteen, had developed a strong passion for sound engineering.

He has collaborated with Grammy Award-nominated producers including Jeff Blue (Linkin Park, Hoobastank), Tue Madsen (Meshuggah, The Haunted), Joe Marlett (Foo Fighters, Blink-182), Jacob Hansen (Amaranthe, Arch Enemy), and many others.

As a producer, he has recorded over 50 records for Italian and international artists, as well as music for television, film, and video games.

As a musician, he has toured worldwide with various music projects and has shared stages and tours with Iron Maiden, Halestorm, Papa Roach, Alter Bridge, Black Stone Cherry, Skillet, Within Temptation, Opeth, and many others.

His passion, determination, and extensive experience as a producer have led to his ongoing collaboration with Studiocompresso and his work on the prestigious Neve VR 48-channel console.

Born in 1978. Francesco began to study classical piano at the age of 5 but found solfeggio very boring, so he stopped practicing at 12.

He later tried electronic music and composed numerous pieces, but this did not lead him anywhere, either. Around the same time, he took classes on harmony and composition, and experimented with different passions such as videography, photography, crafting, and cooking. Regrettably, he gets hooked with everything that passes before his eyes…including women.

In 2001 he spent a few months in the historic recording studio “Quattro 1” in Rome, where he fell in love with the NEVE VR – the mythical analogue bench, and by 2008, he brought it home. Simultaneously, he began to dub cartoons songs.
His career as a professional composer started and ended in 2005, when he created the music for a Fandango Film documentary and was mistaken for a well-known Italian actor; on the DVD, instead of his name, they wrote “Music by Antonio Albanese.” Bewildered, he moved temporarily to London and learned what it means to work seriously.

To date, he writes songs for Disney, Netflix, Fox, Mediaset, Rai, BBC and many others, and he also runs a guest house in Zanzibar, where he travels whenever he has the chance in order to remember what it means to be alive.

“Life is fighting for what you love, it’s patience, it’s taking care of every single moment of your time. Life is closing and reopening your eyes as if each time it were a new beginning. There are many paths to take and many crossroads that require you to make choices, but there are no limits if the soil of your existence is made of Music.”