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Marco Antonio Santos

Born: December 5, 1984

Marco Antonio Santos is a guitarist, arranger, composer, and music educator. Originally from Minas Gerais, Brazil, he is currently based in Austin, Texas.

Throughout more than fifteen years as a professional musician, Santos has performed extensively in Brazil and the United States, navigating freely between jazz, funk, pop, and Brazilian music. His singular style blends traces from his multiple musical influences, ranging from Radiohead and Pat Metheny to Maria Schneider and Brazilian legend Milton Nascimento.

In spring 2023, ears&eyes Records will release Santos’s debut album, About: Silence, a conceptual work that combines music, visual art, improvisational dance, and poetry to explore the various meanings of silence—introspection, grief, oppression, absence of sound, and more. Conceived during the forced solitude of the COVID-19 pandemic, when live musical performances all but ceased, and amid times of social upheaval and racial violence, About: Silence is a full-throated embrace of artistic expression across multiple dimensions. The album’s eleven compositions are brought to life by a jazz trio of guitar, upright bass, and drums, joined by a woodwind quartet on four tracks and a string quartet on five.

Roberto Frassini Moneta, Francesco Ganassin, Gabriele Mitelli, Nelide Bandello: About Silence

by Neri Pollastri
April 4, 2018

Una ricerca musicale sul silenzio, questo è quel che il contrabbassista Roberto Frassini Moneta documenta in About Silence. Al suo fianco giovani musicisti come l'ormai affermato Gabriele Mitelli alla tromba e il meno noto ma interessantissimo Francesco Ganassin ai clarinetti, oltre all'esperto e avventuroso Nelide Bandello alla batteria. Disco sul silenzio, ma non per ...

About Silence

By Roberto Frassini Moneta

Label: Teriyaki
Released: 2017
Track listing: Inciampo; 19; Collasso; Di cosa; Tok; Corbass.