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Simone Giuliani, better known as 4MuLA is a freelance keyboard player, composer, orchestrator and music producer living in Manhattan, New York.
He is currently recording and producing Sambismo, a project with multi-instrumentalist Zé Luis [Caetano Veloso, Tania Maria] and producer/dj Béco Dranoff [Bebel Gilberto, Red Hot & Rio].
Since 2007 he has been collaborating as Digital Audio Editor and A&R Asst. with Grammy Award-winner Jason Olaine for Monterey Jazz Festival Records/Concord Music Group, working on rare live recordings of Miles Davis Quintet, Dave Brubeck, Sarah Vaughan, Thelonious Monk, Dizzy Gillespie, Louis Armstrong and Tito Puente among others.
4MuLA writes music for TV and film: CSI: Crime Scene Investigation, CBS News (Logo/VH1), E! Entertainment Tonight, the TV movie “A Raisin In The Sun” featuring Sean P. Diddy Combs, Phylicia Rashad and John Stamos, the original soundtracks of "Little Gold Men" and "Blindspot" are some of his credits.
In the US, with dj/producer Corrado Bay he conceived two electronic music projects: Racoon and Lazybatusu. Both these acts appear in more than 100 electronic/downtempo compilations released worldwide and reached the Top 10 Music Chart in iTunes Store for Electronic music.
He's the founder of Emunity Records, a digital label that focus on future-lounge, nu-jazz and ambient soundscapes.
MEMORY LANE
He pursued studies of Jazz Piano & Improvisation with Stefano Bollani and Ray Santisi, piano teacher of Joe Zawinul, Herbie Hancock and Keith Jarrett, at Berklee Music Schools Clinics. He has frequented The Juilliard School, studying Advanced Orchestration with Daniel Ott and Composition with Conrad Cummings.
While living in the UK, he played with Global Soul Movement until 1999 and collaborated with Mercury Awards-nominated producer Drew Horley (TY, Natalie Williams, Bugz In The Attic, Roots Manuva), a friendship that still lasts to this day. With him he also performed with Psychic Phenomena, a 10-pieces organic hip-hop live ensemble opening among others for The Roots.
In the early 90s, with Francesco Cipriani and Kareem Bennett he started Funkareem, the first original future-funk/neo-soul act in Italy at the time. He also toured Italy with punk-rock cult band Diaframma and recorded four albums with them.
On the music business side, he was Director of Digital Initiatives for Festival Network, the legendary company founded by George Wein in 1954 that created the Newport Folk Festival and the JVC Jazz Festival series but most importantly launched the model of music festival as it's known today.
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