Released: 2025
SCCD 556 | EAN: 8018344015569 | 
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Schema Records proudly presents PRELUDE, Stefano “S-Tone Inc.” Tirone’s tenth album in his 30-year career. It is available from October 10th, 2025, in the usual digital/streaming formats, as well as LP (10 tracks) and CD (15 tracks); the latter contains, in addition to the tracks on the vinyl, the singles already released on 7” (“In the Sand”, “Tudo Pra Ela”) and remixes of “Pressure”, “Vento Doce” and “Longe De Voce”.
Various different styles harmoniously coexist in “Prelude”: the soul, funk, disco and house tracks embellished by Julia St. Louis’s black voice and Laura Fedele’s jazz-blues timbre alternate with Latin and Brazilian atmospheres in the tracks that host the precious collaboration with Toco, up to a stunning reinterpretation of Santana’s “Guajira” performed by Manuela Ravaglioli, a long-time S-Tone Inc.’s guest vocalist, and German Leguizamon, an Argentine artist with a brilliant career in the 90s dance music.
The title “Prelude” is a double homage: to the legendary homonymous American record label that defined the New York disco sound between 70s and 80s, and to Eumir Deodato’s masterpiece released on CTI in 1973, a sublime example of cross-genre fusion that has always been a source of inspiration for the refined and cosmopolitan blend of music styles that has made S-Tone Inc.’s sound unique and that is firmly reaffirmed in this new record.
CREDITS
Stefano Tirone - electric guitar, bass, keyboards and programmingJulia St. Louis - lead vocals on 2, 3, 7, 9, 14 backing vocals on 1
Toco - lead vocals on 4, 6, 11, 12, 13, 15, acoustic guitar on 6, 15
Laura Fedele - lead vocals on 5, 8
Stefano Grassi - lead vocals on 1, backing vocals on 7, 14
Manuela Ravaglioli - lead vocals on 10
German Leguizamon - lead vocals on 10
Priscila Ribas - backing vocals on 6, 11, 12
Luzia Dvorek - Backing vocals on 15
Marquinho Baboo - percussion
Edu Hebling - bass on 8, 12
Marco Brioschi - trumpet on 4, 6, 7, 8, 9, 14, 15
Marlon Marinoni - tenor sax on 7, 14
Gilberto Tarocco - baritone sax on 3
Randy Freeman - trombone on 10
Arranged, produced and mixed by Stefano Tirone
Recorded at Panorama Studio, Milan, Italy except bass on track 8 and 12 recorded at Blue Spirit Studio, Milan, Italy
Mastered by Francesco Borrelli at Blue Spirit Studio
Artwork by Eugenio Crippa / adventprod.com
Publishing by Edizioni Ishtar except 9 by EMI Songs Ltd and 10 by Petra Music - Universal Music Publishing Group
1, 2, 3, 7, 14 written by Stefano Tirone and Julia St. Louis
5, 8 written by Stefano Tirone and Laura Fedele
4, 6, 11, 12, 13, 15 written by Stefano Tirone and Tomaz Di Cunto
9 written by Duncan Bridgeman, Joe Dworniak and Sam Jones
10 written by David Brown, José Rico Reyes, Chepito Reyes