S-Tone Inc - Prelude LP

PRELUDE is Stefano “S-Tone Inc.” Tirone’s tenth album in his 30-year career. Available as a 10-track LP and 15-track CD, as well as the usual digital/streaming formats, it harmoniously hosts various different styles: the soul, funk, disco and house tracks embellished by Julia St. Louis’s black voice and Laura Fedele’s jazz-blues timbre alternate with Latin and Brazilian atmospheres in the tracks that host Toco’s vocals, up to a stunning reinterpretation of Santana’s “Guajira” performed by Manuela Ravaglioli, a long-time S-Tone Inc.’s guest vocalist, and German Leguizamon, an Argentine artist with a brilliant career in the 90s dance music. The album title is a double homage to the legendary homonymous American record label and Eumir Deodato’s 1973 CTI masterpiece that has always inspired S-Tone Inc.’s unique blend of music styles.