Australian drummer and composer, Michael Caratti, leads this avant-garde jazz/metal trio. Their first record, “Synaptic Self”, was recorded last April at East Side Sound studio in NYC and it was released on the 25th of August.

CDs and high quality downloads available on our Bandcamp: https://ilusorecords.bandcamp.com/album/synaptic-self

dMU are:
Josh Sinton: baritone sax and bass clarinet
Álvaro Domene: electric guitar
Michael Caratti: drums and compositions

Recorded and mixed by Marc Urselli at East Side Sound, NYC. April 2016.
Mastered by Adrian Sardi at The Vault, Perth
Art and design by Shea Walsh

Synaptic Self

dMU - "Ubasute" from Synaptic Self (Iluso 04)

Baritone saxophone, bass clarinet, flute, composition. Jazz-trained, but free of all that baggage now. Pieces both improvised and pre-formed. "It's all music!"

Iluso Records is an independent record label founded in 2013.

"Total facemelt music. Just what I needed today." –  Nate Chinen (New York Times, NPR)

Álvaro Domene is a Madrid-born, New York based guitarist and composer operating at the convergence of various styles of contemporary creative music. His sound and compositions are influenced by the avant-garde jazz and modern classical traditions, as well as metal music. He has performed and taught internationally, and recently worked with Joe McPhee, Karl Berger, Elliott Sharp, Henry Kaiser, Briggan Krauss, Michaël Attias, Jim Black, Ben Goldberg, Michael Bisio, Colin Marston, Mike Pride, Ches Smith, Scott Amendola, and Fred Lonberg-Holm.