Out Take: Sandro Morales-SantoroSandro Morales-Santoro

Composer

Web: sandromorales.com

Contact: kate.twilley@impact24pr.com

Most Recent: Kold x Windy, Restaurants at the Edge of the World

Sandro Morales-Santoro is an award-winning composer as well as a part of the executive committee of the Composers Diversity Collective to help connect composers of color with opportunities to advance their careers. He recently worked on WeTV’s Kold x Windy, pulling inspiration from hip-hop and drill music, and National Geographic/Disney+’s Restaurants at the Edge of The World, his second collaboration with co-composer David Benjamin Steinberg and director Jeremy Simmons.

His musical background includes popular and folk influences from his native Venezuela, an education in classical music, as well as interests in jazz and electronic music. “When I started as a composer in L.A., I was afraid of bringing too much of my cultural background into my music,” he says. “There have been a few times when I was interviewing for a composing job, and they said, ‘So all you can write is Latin music?’ I wanted to prove I could do music that wasn’t necessarily representative of where I come from, and when you start out, you’re trying to just imitate what the greats are doing. With time, I’ve learned to accept and embrace who I am, not care so much and try to bring those elements into my music.” 

Morales-Santoro says he loves the challenge of working on a variety of different projects, from animated film to documentaries. “The work is unexpected. I constantly need to evolve my sound, learn new instruments, new sound libraries. Having to face that and figuring out how to define a project’s concept through music, work with the director―I love those challenges.” 

Morales-Santoro advises aspiring composers to remember the old adage: “It’s a marathon, not a sprint. In the beginning, I always felt in a rush, worried about things happening fast enough, but you have to take it one step at a time,” he says. “You have to network, you have to work on your craft, and then you have to work on your voice, which is what sets you apart from the rest and makes people interested in hiring you over someone else.” 

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Wise Music Group Appoints Max Moroldo as Managing Director of Wise Music ItalyWise Music Group has appointed Massimiliano “Max” Moroldo as Managing Director of the recently established company Wise Music Italy, based in Bergamo. Max joined Wise Music Italy in 2022 as Head of A&R and Music Publishing Consultant upon the acquisition of his company, Baby Angel Music, by Wise Music Group.

Through the ownership of Baby Angel Music and Atlas, Wise Music Italy owns shares in international hits such as “I Know You Want Me” (recorded by Pitbull) and “Seek Bromance” (Avicii), as well as Italian hits including Occidentali's “Karma” and “Amen” (by Francesco Gabbani, both winners of the Sanremo Festival), “Come Neve” (Giorgia and Marco Mengoni), “Credo” (Giorgia), “Potremmo Ritornare” (Tiziano Ferro), “Crepe” (Irama), and “Il Coraggio Di Andare” (Laura Pausini and Biagio Antonacci).

Among the catalogue’s many titles is the evergreen “Freed from Desire”, originally recorded by the singer and songwriter Gala in 1996, which became a huge hit all over the world, and which has subsequently been covered and adapted on numerous occasions. 

Max Moroldo comments: “Wise Music Group is definitely one of the strongest independent realities in the worldwide publishing scene and it’s a great honour for me to be appointed Managing Director after only one year working together. In line with the expansion and growth policy of Wise Music, Wise Music Italy has consolidated its position in the international publishing industry with the acquisition of important catalogues. The search for talented songwriters will be our next goal”.  

Wise Music Group CEO Marcus Wise says: “We’re delighted to have a local office in Italy and keen to expand in this important market.  Max is a talented and experienced publisher and is instrumental in helping Wise Music build our Italian business into a significant operation for our Group.”

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Disguised Malignance Sign with ProstheticHelsinki, Finland's DISGUISED MALIGNANCE today announced their signing to Prosthetic Records, with their forthcoming debut album, Entering the Gateways, due to be released on September 29. Alongside the signing and album announcement, the Finnish death metal group has shared Entering the Gateways' lead single Malignant Visions. (Photo by Eero Palmu)

LISTEN TO MALIGNANT VISIONS BELOWStream Malignant Visions via Apple Music | TIDAL | Deezer | Bandcamp and SpotifyPre-order Entering the Gateways here.

Speaking on the album announcement, Felix Pennanen (vocals) comments: "Entering the Gateways’ songwriting approach combined with lyrical concepts and overall aesthetic form an entirety that evolves throughout the album's runtime. First, the listener is absorbed into the hellish & twisted landscapes known from 90s death metal, surrounded with existential dread and nihilistic thoughts. As the album progresses, these landscapes and concepts start to evolve, while new ideas are introduced to the music. I think we achieved a great balance between banger riffs and otherworldly atmospheres. "Self-producing the album allowed us to make this entirety as close to the vision in our heads as possible. From the way each instrument sounds to the colossal and atmospheric synth soundscapes, the freedom to tweak these things ourselves really added a significant amount of depth to this debut album."Aatos Palmu (bass) adds: "We are inspired by a wide variety of different kinds of music, and I think it can be felt and heard in DISGUISED MALIGNANCE. All of those influences together with our own artistic visions form a distinct sound and vibe. This album lays the groundwork for the ”Disguised Malignance sound” which we always aim to achieve and evolve when writing music."DISGUISED MALIGNANCE’s formative years up until this point has seen the group operate primarily as a duo, with vocalist Felix Pennanen and bassist Aatos Palmu forming the band in 2021, and carefully constructing the band’s foundational sound of old school death metal sensibilities with a calculatedly modern view of technical songwriting embellishments. The young band’s dichotomous approach to the genre was evidenced in their early demo and 2023 promo tapes respectively, before Pennanen and Palmu found themselves with growing ambitions for the band.Commencing writing and recording in 2022 with their core pairing, DISGUISED MALGINANCE display a musical chemistry far beyond their years on Entering the Gateways. Frenzied passages careen and jolt forward with a menacing intent, whilst swarming tremolos and an dexterous rhythmic backbone bring to mind greats such as Demilich and Crytopsy. Written specifically with a solidified quintet in mind, Entering the Gateways ushers DISGUISED MALIGNANCE’s more textured passages into the fold - look no further than Disengagement into Eternity or Remnants of Serenity - that invoke more modern death metal acts such as Tomb Mold and Blood Incantation.Inspired heavily by Lovecraftian horror and armed with an esoterically eldritch unease at the simultaneously unknown and unknowable, Entering the Gateways oscillates between the physical and the otherworldly throughout its 34 minute runtime. DISGUISED MALIGNANCE’s ambitions to take death metal’s elemental parts and impart their own verve and voice into the genre are plain to see on their first full-length, and it's a testament to their natural talents that Entering the Gateways stands as a bold introduction to the band.

Entering the Gateways tracklist:1. Gates to Nihil2. Confined3. Unearthly Extinction4. The Fading Path of Existence5. Malignant Visions6. Remanants of Serenity7. Disengagement into Eternity8. Beyond (Entering the Gateways)DISGUISED MALIGNANCE is:Felix Pennanen - vocalsAatos Palmu - bassDaniel Gamache - guitarTuure Suomalainen - guitarJuuso Hämäläinen - drums

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