MONTEFIORI COCKTAIL Biography
Montefiori Cocktail is formed by a couple of twins who play different musical instruments: Francesco (Kekko) at keyboards and Federico (Kikko) at sax, flute and voice.
The two brothers, sons of sax player Germano Montefiori, a talented 60’s and 70’s musician, before becoming Montefiori Cocktail, have worked separately. Francesco was a producer of house and breakbeat music, while Federico played sax in many bands.
Their career as Montefiori Cocktail begins in 1995 but the first release is on 1997 with “Raccolta n. 1” followed by “Raccolta n. 2” in 2000 and "Re*Shaken-remixes album" in 2002, published by Irma.
After three years and their move to Sir Richard Branson’s V2 Records, their third album, titled “Raccolta n.3”, was released in November 2003.
In 2006 they begin a collaboration with EMI MUSIC and producing 4 albums:
“MONTEFIORI APPETIZER vol.1”,“MONTEFIORI APPETIZER vol.2”, “CHRISTMAS PARTY” (2008) and “4 ORCHESTRA” (2007):
these were released in 25 countries worldwide!
in 2010 they realized the CD “MONTEFIORI COCKTAIL CLASSICS” within which we find a selection of the greatest hits of the first two albums re-mixed and re-arranged.
They produced also a lot of music for commercial, radio and tv program (italian version) of “DEAL OR NOT DEAL”, resident band for the last edition of the "NDP" on LA7 TV (2010), titol song of “ULTRASUONI COCKTAIL” and recently guests on the program RADIORAI2 (2011),
2 songs in the movie'"L’ULTIMO BACIO" directed by Gabriele Muccino (one of the most successful italian film) ,
3 songs in the soundtrack of "SEX AND THE CITY" ... etc.) and they are guest in more of 100 compilations!
They composed a O.S.T. of a documentary “L’ULTIMA ZINGARATA” appaers at Venice film festival .
Recently collaboration to the O.S.T. of IL MIGLIORE docufilm RAI CINEMA dedicated to Marco Pantani.
Their music is inspired by the sound that used to be called "Easy Listening" and that has become in its modern form, "Lounge Music".
Montefiori Cocktail are Italian major representative of the easy listening evolution, and one of the most important of the world, offering the 60’s sounds enriched with technological elements.
Their style is inspired by the 60’s and the beginning of the 70’s, cult soundtracks, music from tv commercial and classics evergreen from around the world.
It’s a music to have fun with, for relaxed people and not only.
It sounds like they want to prove that good music never gets old and, as the years go by, it gains its own consistency.
They grasp the vitality spirit conveyed by that period music, by reproposing it in musical forms that belong to our time, through the contamination with house, breakbeat, jungle, drum 'n bass sounds, etc..
Many of their tracks have been used for the opening titles or as a musical background at both local and international radio and tv stations, they have also been featured in famous tv commercials for well known brands and have been used in film soundtracks.
Their musical taste has attracted many artists, for whom they have composed tracks and remixes for (Pizzicato Five, Daniele Luppi, In-Grid, Claudio Coccoluto, Giorgio Conte, Johnson Righeira, Roy Paci, Quinto Rigo, Skiantos ecc...) and remixed too by Nicola Conte, Dimitry from Paris, Sunaga T, Redymade, Fantastic Plastic Machine, Ursula 1000, Le Hammond Inferno ecc..
They have an incredible “live” history:
from 1995 up till today they played in over 2000 gigs in Italy and around the world, they took part to many important festivals like Jazz Festival in Montreux,Copenhagen Jazz Festival, Warsaw, Mexico City , Thailand, Moscow, Kaliningrad and
Film Festival in Cannes, Venice, Locarno, Graz, Milan, Lisbon, Karloly Vary..
and played in locations that are considered music temples like Jazz café, Blow Up, Madame jo-jo, Cargo in London, Cabaret Savauge in Paris, Casanova Revue, VolskGarten, B72, Vienna University and LIFEBALL 2003 in Vienna, The Greatest Bar on Earth, SOB's in New York, PACHA in IBIZA etc...
many tours also in Austrian, Croatia, Russia, Ukraina, Hungary, Greece, Sweden, Poland, Mexico, Uzbekistan, Kazakstan, Georgia, Lithuania, Slovenia, Spain, Portugal, Germany, Swiss etc..
In 1997 they played in a month long tour in the States in cities like New York, Los Angeles, San Francisco, Dallas, Philadelphia, Austin and many others.
In 2007 they represented Italy at EUROSONIC festival in GRONINGEN.
In 2016 they back in New York. Played in Hilton hotel for “VINO 2016” the italian wine week and they back in Kazakstan (Almaty) for opening party of BULGARI shop.
For France TV, they appear in a documentary dedicated to Maurice RAVEL's Boléro, with their BOLERO version, alongside great names like Larry Adler, Benny Goodman, Ray Ventura, James Gang, Frank Zappa, Walter Murphy, Hass Mosa, Angelique Kidjo, Maurice Béjart's ballet etc
They played for important brands as:
FERRARI, SMART, DIESEL, MISSONI, ROBERTO CAVALLI, NOKIA, BLISS gioielli, (Damiani gioielli), MASTERCARD, SIEMENS, BREIL, MASERATI ,DUCATI, SERGIO TACCHINI, VESPA, WOOLRICHE, BROKE, MISS SIXTY, CAMELACTIVE, MANGO, HYUNDAI, SKUNKFUNK, GQ, SAVIO FIRMINO, PILSNER URQUELL, T-MOBILE, TELECOM, NOKIA, MERCEDES, VOLVO, BMW, MINI COOPER, BULGARI ecc..