Decibel Ensemble - 2008/09
Since March 2009 Sebastiano Dessanay has started a collaboration as double bassist and electric bassist with contemporary ensemble decibel, leaded by composer Ed Bennett.
The piece Vow by Sebastiano Dessanay has been written for the ensemble and has been premiered at the Frontiers Plus Festival at Birmingham Conservatoire on the 26th of March 2009.
Forthcoming projects include a recording with improviser artist Paul Dunmall.
Rebis Trio - 2005/08
Sebastiano Dessanay, drummer Alessandro Garau and guitarist Gianluca Corona played for the first time together in 1999 in London. Since then the trio worked occasionally on jazz standard tunes until 2005 when they started working on original music by drummer Alessandro. The work had been recorded in 2006 and Rebis came out in 2007 published by small UK based label Slam Productions.
A.Garau - Sei settembre. 2007
A.Garau - L'altra mattina. 2007
Auden - 2004
In 1939 W.A. Auden composed several poems about man's inner life, sorrows and living estranged from nature. In this recording, every musician expresses their own feelings - so deeply musical in themselves - by playing athematic atonal improvisations. Nothing aleatory in that, mind you, but perfectly definite languages and interplay. The septet is composed by leader Sebastiano Meloni on piano, Valeria Martini on vocals, Gianluca Corona on guitar, Nicola Cossu and Sebastiano Dessanay on electric basses and doublebasses, Leonardo Casula and Alessandro Garau on drums.
Auden - Schoolchildren. 2004
Auden - Orpheus. 2004
Sigurtà -Zambelli Quintet - 2002
In summer 2002 leaders Fulvio Sigurtà on trumpet and Fabio Zambelli on guitar gathered some friends to record some original compositions plus two standards as a hommage to Miles Davis.
The result is the auto-produced CD ZeroUno. The band includes Paolo Carta Mantiglia on bass clarinet and soprano saxophone, Sebastiano Dessanay on double bass and Paolo Orlandi on drums.
S.Dessanay - Scherzo. 2002
S.Dessanay - 12 Kisses. 2002
Marvin a Detroit - 2002/2006
In 2002 Riccardo Melis set up a soul cover band with pop and funky influences as a tribute to Marvin Gaye, together with Sebastiano Dessanay on bass, Mauro Congia on keyboards and Andrea Ruggeri on drums. The band's repertoire was based on Marvin Gaye and other Motown artists, Jamiroquai, and some pop-rock artists as Beatles, Doors, Police with a soul-funk rearrangement. In 2004 they started to work on their own compositions. They rearranged Angeli di strada a song by the sardinian songwriter Alberto Sanna and the recording was included in the album Alberto Sanna.
Marvin a Detroit/Alberto Sanna
Angeli di strada. 2004