Bands and Projects as side-man:
Ben Lamar Gay Quartet, Rob Frye Exoplanet, Chicago Samba, Eric Hines Pan Dulce, Kevin and Hell, Underdog (Italy).
Bands and Projects as leader/co-leader:
TOMMASO MORETTI 
INSIDE OUT
Jake Wark: Tenor Sax
Ben Dillinger: Upright/Electric bass
Edinho Gerber: Guitar/Violao
Ben Lamar Gay: Cornet
Natalie Lande: Flute
Tommaso Moretti: Drums, Percussions, Guitar, Xylophone, Vocals, Electronics.
Inside Out is a studio album that connects the dots between the intimate dimension of an inspiration and the aesthetic need to translate it into defined musical languages. It’s a quest to find the inner layer of humanity that allows a connection between the meaning of three words: Sentimento, Saudade, Soul.
TOMMASO MORETTI QUARTET
SEMOCOMESEMO
Ben Lamar Gay: cornet,flute,melodica, percussions, vocals
Matt Piet: piano,melodica
Devin Foster: bass
Tommaso Moretti: drums, percussions,guitar, vocals
SemoComeSemo in Roman dialect means we are what we are.
The project’s idea takes shape from drummer and composer Tommaso Moretti’s need to confront his artistic inspirations. The musical result is a natural reflection of the musician’s life evolution. Decontextualized Italian folk elements find their own way to interact with the Chicago avant-garde context through a balanced formula of open improvisation and detailed composition.Sharp angles of complex rhythms are softened by open hearted melodies inspired by the the pastel colors of the Italian 60’s surrealism movie scene.Time illusions and nostalgic harmonies are used by the musicians as a tool to open a gate and connect with the poetry of that dreamy dimension and its goofy characters.
RELEASE:
"SemoComeSemo",cd, Amalgam 2017
BOTTLE TREE
Ben Lamar Gay: Synth, Cornet, Beats.
A.M Frison (Coultrain): Vocals
Tommaso Moretti: Drums.
Bottle Tree is a new collaboration conjured from the Southside Chicago storefront chapel of singer/scholar A.M. Frison and composer/cornetist Ben Lamar Gay.
With Italian expat Tommaso Moretti on traps, the sound-rendered folklore of Bottle Tree embodies a heart beating to West African mutated funk with the spirit of avant-garde jazz and a Motown-molded melodic mind — like a futuristic fantasy of Stevie Wonder backed by Don Cherry and Novos Baianos in the early 1970s.
With Italian expat Tommaso Moretti on traps, the sound-rendered folklore of Bottle Tree embodies a heart beating to West African mutated funk with the spirit of avant-garde jazz and a Motown-molded melodic mind — like a futuristic fantasy of Stevie Wonder backed by Don Cherry and Novos Baianos in the early 1970s.
Release:
"Bottle Tree", International Anthem, 2017.
Jorge Orozco: Upright Bass
Kevin Lipa/Juan Ortiz: Guitar
Tommaso Moretti: Drums, Vocals.
The trio , active in the Chicago area, is focused on performing jazz arrangements of Italian music from the 1950's- 1970's time frame also incorporating in the repertoire some of the best Italian movies soundtrack ever written.
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TRIBRACO
(Punk/Psychedelic/Jazz active 2004-2012)
Lorenzo Tarducci: guitar, loop station.
Dario Cesarini: guitar, loop station, effects.
Valerio Lucenti: bass.
Tommaso Moretti: drums, percussions.
BIO
Lorenzo Tarducci: guitar, loop station.
Dario Cesarini: guitar, loop station, effects.
Valerio Lucenti: bass.
Tommaso Moretti: drums, percussions.
BIO
The Tribraco was born in Rome in 2004 and active until 2012. In 2007 the trio stretched into a quartet, formed by Lorenzo Tarducci (guitar, loop machine), Valerio Lucenti (bass), Tommaso Moretti (drums), Dario Cesarini (guitar, loop machine, effects).
The creativity of the four tight-rope walkers musicians is expressed in the balance between the structured composition and free improvisation, syncopated and pressing rhythms, joint themes, creating goliardic and visionary atmospheres which leave ample room to the viewer’s imagination, guided by effective and amusing introductions to the tracks.
A long, original and eclectic way, brought them to perform in Italy ( Rome, Bologna, Perugia, Recanati, Milan, Cagliari) playing in clubs, in the streets and important festivals like “Villa Celimontana Jazz Festival” 2008, RM (opening for Francesco Zeppetella) and “Ai confini tra Sardegna e Jazz 2009” in S. Anna Arresi (CI) (opening for Roscoe Mitchell).
Also during the S. Anna Arresi festival they performed with Ernest Dawkins’s ensamble of the Chicago’s AACM.
From 2007 the Tribraco works with actors, dancers and video makers, to achieve live performance, audiovisual concept and music for films and theatres: in 2008 Tribraco participates at “Installer.1” festival in Rome and realizes the soundtrack for the documentary “La Valle della Luna”, coming out soon.
In 2008 and 2009 they perform music for some of Ornella D’Agostino’s shows in the “Time in Jazz” Festival at Berchidda, SS.
In spring 2009 they repeatedly perform in London.
Cracking The Whip is his debut album, produced by Megasound and distributed by Megasound / Zebralution. After the great success of the presentation at Rome’s Rialto Sant’Ambrogio, Cracking The Whip receives an excellent recall by the audience and the specialized press
(Chitarre, Rockerilla, Percussioni, Musik Box, Metromorfosi, Babylonbus, Movimenti Prog, Music Club), while the main indie radio stations in the capital (Radio Città Futura, Radio Rock, Radio Città Aperta, Radio Tor Vergata) broadcast the album tracks.
On april 2010 Tribraco is declare third at ItaliaWave (Lazio) final, while from August to October 2010, together with Neo, they tour 50 days and 9000 miles around the US, giving a sneak peak of "Glue", the upcoming second album.
On February 2011 they introduce "Glue" in Italy while planning a Midwest/East Coast tour in the US for Sept-Oct 2011.
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REALESES
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| "GLUE" , Cd , Megasound 2011. |
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| "CRACKING THE WHIP", Cd, Megasound 2009. |
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| "A WRONG WAY TO DO THAT" , promo 2007. |
THE ORANGE MAN THEORY
(Punk/Metal/Noise quarte active 2003-2013)
Gianni Serusi: vocals.
Gabriele Giaccari: guitars.
Marco, Cinghio, Mastrobuono: bass.
Tommaso Moretti: drums.
BIO
Formed in 2003, in Rome, Italy, the extreme rock quartet The Orange Man Theory delivers a raging sound influenced by a strong passion for groovy dissonances, angular and odd rhythms, a perverse addiction to death metal and a real devotion for 70's super rock. Once recorded their debut cd “Riding A Cannibal Horse From Here To…” with Steve Austin of Today Is The Day, they signed to the US Supernova Records. Their album soon caught the attention of the worldwide press that acclaimed the album on the most important magazines, and The Orange Man Theory toured extensively throughout Europe, USA and South America. They performed at SXSW 2008 in Austin, TX, and played with bands like Sick Of It All, Today Is The Day, Jucifer, Dark Funeral, Ephel Duath, Cripple Bastards, Sleepytime Gorilla Museum. Their second ground-breaking full-length “Satan Told Me I’m Right”, produced by Steve Austin again, will be released by Subsound Records.After a few line up changes in 2012 they released for SubSound records they're last full leght album : Giants, Demons and Flock of Sheep.
REALESES
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| 7" inches vynil spitted with"Lucky Funeral", 2010. |
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| "Satan Told Me I'm Right" Cd , Subsound 2009. |
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| "Riding A Cannibal Horse From Here To..." Cd, Supernova, Indelirium 2004.
THRANGH
Fabrizio Colelli: guitars.
Gabriele Mengoli: tenor and alto sax.
Alessandro Bonanni: bass.
Tommaso Moretti: drums.
BIO
Avant jazz/rock quartet active 2005-2012
Thrangh is a cultural delirium crushing many different styles and puking them in a metamorphic amalgam of sounds: its a fuckin cut-up of music circumstances risen out of improvvisative sessions, reorganized in a fluctuating transcription of a dreamy experience. Thrangh's live acts basically consist in a continuous performance, without a break, that alternates between collective rhythm-locked parts and free noisy improvisation. It follows a muddled mystification of disrupted elements that exalts the aggressive movement, the febrile insomnia, the race step, the mortal jump, the smack and the fist..... ..
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RELEASES
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| "Il Seme", compilation Cd, Cane Cane 2009 |
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| "Erzefilisch" Cd, Altipiani 2007. |
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| "Il Castigo Esemplare" Cd promo 2005. |
