Tracks from the new Stratos Ensemble in 2013, soon to be released on CD and/or download in 2014.

The Stratos Ensemble - Yet To Be Released And Free Downloads

The first track we recorded with our current bass player in the new line up, and unreleased. All improvised.  Presently unreleased music but building towards a second album. The organ solo on this track was not played by Dean, but rather the sax player Jim Goetsch.

First album here:
http://www.cdbaby.com/cd/stratoensemble

Buy Our Last CD

Royce - The Stratos Ensemble (organ and sax solo by Jim Goetsch)

From the founder of Surface 10:
The Stratos Ensemble reformation is starting to come together.  Won't be long before material for a new CD is formed.  This track won't make it to the CD because of technical difficulties, but it's a perfectly good track, given away for free.  The fender rhodes solo on this song was not played by Dean but rather the sax player Jim Goetsch. Totally improvised; two keyboardists and an ensemble.  High quality mp3.

Personal:
Brock Bowers - drums
Kent Baxter - bass
Jim Goetch - sax & fender rhodes
Dean De Benedictis - keyboards and production
Anjelo Alonte - Violin

Fruits Of Friction - The Stratos Ensemble (rhodes and sax solo by Jim Goetsch)

The Stratos Ensemble in 2013.

Website: http://thestratosensemble.com

Personal:
Dean De Benedictis - keyboards/synth, production
Jim Goetsch - sax, keyboards
Daniel Coffeng - guitar
Brock Bowers - drums
Carl Royce - Bass

"Eat This Piece!" - The Stratos Ensemble - Session Clip2 (Daniel Solo)

The first ever compilation track by The Stratos Ensemble, featured on the comp album Touched Two.

Whole album:
http://touched.bandcamp.com/album/touched-two

Stratos Ensemble track:
http://touched.bandcamp.com/track/my-broken-key-part-2

For A Good Cause

My Broken Key (Part 2) - The Stratos Ensemble (compilation track)

This is an unreleased track by the Stratos Ensemble, available here for free download. It is considered a part of their scrap material of 2013, but they were still moved enough by this particular track that sharing it seemed fitting to them. This track was improvised; it will not be released on any album, mainly due to minor audio blemishes in the recording that cannot be removed, which you may or may not notice.

Personnel on this track:
Jim Goetsch - sax
Brock Bowers - drums
Dean De Benedictis - synths and production
Kent Baxter - bass
Anjelo Elonte - violin

Image by our friend Ellen Jantzen, in 2013:
http://www.ellenjantzen.com/

Alt Solace - The Stratos Ensemble (extras of 2013)

The Stratos Ensemble is a progressive jazz band, the brainchild of producer Dean De Benedictis. The Fateless Flows Collective was an organization that Dean once ran, but now is simply the brand canopy that represents many of his extended projects, such as collaborations with original FF members and related material. Dean has decided to merge both his Stratos Ensemble content and his general Fateless Flows content on this particular SC page. 

The company name was originally the name of an electronic music collective Dean ran from 2003-05. From 2007-11 there was a plan to relaunch Fateless Flows as a record label, but it fell through. What remains are video channels on Youtube and Vimeo, and this Soundcloud page. Dean keeps his art and content coming, so he still uses the FF brand to release anything he works on that he also maintains rights control of, be it solo efforts or collaborative. Dean also has a separate SC page for his solo material.

Fateless Flows main image by Michael Jantzen and Dean De Benedictis. 

Dean De Benedictis' website can be found here:
http://deandebenedictis.com/

(Michael Jantzen's website:
http://www.michaeljantzen.com/Welcome.html)

"Eat This Piece!" - The Stratos Ensemble - Session Clip2 (Daniel Solo)

The Stratos Ensemble & Fateless Flows Music