Band - Federico Albanese

Federico Albanese is a new talented composer born in Milan,Italy in 1982. His musical versatility is a natural gift that pushes him to explore music in all its facets. Albanese’s compositions are airy and cinematic, blending classical music, pop and psychedelia. He started studying piano and clarinet as a child before becoming fascinated by rock music. As a teenager he studied bass and became a self-taught guitarist and soon became one of the leading figures of Milan’s underground scene, performing in several bands.

Influenced by black music, folk, electronic, modern andcontemporary classical music his skills as a composer soon emerged, He worked for 5 years as prop man in several film sets. This experience made him understand the power of the connection between music and images and helped him to develop his personal musical path. In 2007 he met singer and songwriter Jessica Einaudi and together they founded the avant-garde duo “La Blanche Alchimie”. Composing songs with Jessica he rediscovered his love for the piano, which from that moment on, became his main instrument. They released 2 albums and gained national and internationalcritical attention, playing around Europe, Russia and USA. Their sound has been described as melancholic and haunting, intermingling mellow acoustics and rock-infused dreamscapes.The first omonymous album was released in Italy in 2009 on Ponderosa/Edel. The second album “Galactic Boredom” was released in Italy in 2011 on Ponderosa/Universal and in Germany in 2012 on Q-rious/Edel. In september 2012 the band has been nominated by “Preis der deutschenShallplattenkritik” in the category of best independent album. In 2010 he scored the soundtrack of the short film “Pick up” by Manyhands - a collective of young italian directors - broadcasted by one the most important italian television channels (SKY). In 2010 he composed the music for the table game “Horse fever” by Cranio Creations. This has been an unusual experiment, never done before in any table game.In 2011 Albanese started adding his compositions on old films and developed an interesting collaboration with guitarist/electronic composer “Antiteq”. Together they post scored live 3 Iron (Kim ki duk), Lucifer Rising (Kenneth Anger), Faust and Alice in Wonderland (Jan Svankmajer). In 2012 he scored the soundtrack of documentary “Fabulae Romane” filmed by Matteo Cherubino. This work documents the first of a structured set of activities of Zegnart - a project commissioned by Ermenegildo Zegna dedicated to the art of our time - that took place at MaXXI - National Museum of XXI Century Arts in Rome. In 2012 he composed the music of full length film “Shadows in the distance” by spanish director Orlando Bosh.

Albanese is currently based in Berlin. He’s working on his debut solo album and producing Jessica Einaudi’s first album.