Matteo Cinti, aka Teo Cinti, and Raz Ulukaya, aka Jojo Baklawa, are the creative force behind ADESSO - a project shaped by movement, travel, and life between cultures. Built around the feeling of constantly being on the road, ADESSO reflects two artists who move from place to place, often working from different apartments, cities, and temporary homes, while collecting sounds, stories, and textures from the world around them.
Matteo Cinti / Teo Cinti
London-based · Italian songwriter / producer
Songwriter · Producer · Vocalist
Matteo Cinti, aka Teo Cinti, brings the warmth of Italian and Mediterranean songwriting into ADESSO. His writing is melodic, direct, nostalgic, and deeply human - shaped by organic instruments, classical guitar, and a strong emotional connection to Italian musical culture.
Produced
Raz Ulukaya / Jojo Baklawa
Berlin-based · Turkish / Israeli songwriter and producer
Songwriter · Producer · Vocalist
Raz Ulukaya, aka Jojo Baklawa, brings a Berlin-based electronic perspective into ADESSO, combining melodic intuition, modern production, and club-driven sound design. His work helps expand the project from organic songwriting into a wider electronic world.
Where ADESSO sits culturally and sonically
Fuses acoustic folk instrumentation with laid-back electronic beats, prioritizing organic warmth and indie pop sensibilities.
A masterclass in blending traditional flamenco and Latin acoustic roots with modern urban and moderate electronic production.
A defining act for weaving heavy cultural and personal storytelling into infectious, highly cinematic electronic pop.
A reference for cinematic electronic storytelling, emotional image-making and strong visual identity.
High-energy, organic live instrumentation celebrating the vibrant intersection of modern London jazz and deeply emotional Afrobeat.
Crafts warm, nostalgic electronic music heavily layered with organic textures and highly intimate, emotional vocal samples.
Creates intricate, emotionally resonant soundscapes using a heavy foundation of organic samples and live instrumentation.
Delivers harmony-rich, funk-infused modern soul that effortlessly bridges live band energy with slick, intimate production.
Blends vintage French pop charm with sophisticated, tropical-tinged electronic club rhythms designed for emotional release on the dancefloor.
Revolutionized the electronic landscape by turning intimate voice notes, personal samples, and everyday conversations into massive, emotionally devastating dancefloor anthems.
A powerhouse of emotional live-electronic crossover, delivering sweeping synthesizers, haunting vocals, and massive emotional climaxes designed for the main stage.
Music that feels raw, immediate, and alive.
The music combines organic instrumentation, simple melodic Italian-English lyrics, and dance music backbones, creating something that feels warm, raw, immediate, and alive. On the surface, the songs carry a commercial and accessible energy, but underneath, they are built from real travel experiences, cultural contrasts, field recordings, and moments captured along the way. At its core, ADESSO is about universal emotion, catchy phrasing, and the shared experience of wandering, connecting, and turning everyday moments into music.
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“In order for this to work, Raz had to fly to Rome to meet my grandma, and I had to fly to İzmir, Turkey to meet his.”
The project is developing its visual language together with feral - a Berlin-based cinematographer duo - creating intimate, documentary-style moments that deepen the emotional identity of the music. Together they film original content rooted in the places, textures, and atmosphere that inspire ADESSO, building a cohesive world where sound, imagery, culture, and emotion work together.
Cinematic vignettes from everyday Mediterranean life
Eden & Aloni
@feral______A Berlin-based cinematographer duo and ADESSO's travel partners. Together the four build the world - the duo live the moments, feral frame them.
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ADESSO brings acoustic soul and electronic energy to intimate rooms and global dancefloors.
Tournament moments, crowd tension and national memory as powerful emotional entry points.
Old Italian football highlights cut into emotionally charged short-form edits tied to ADESSO's identity.
Launch and test content through niche culture pages and burner accounts before pushing winners wide.
Turn football emotion into curiosity by pairing resonant visuals with ADESSO's sound and redirecting the audience into the project.
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ADESSO is a cross-cultural music project rooted in Italian and Mediterranean soul, expanded by modern electronic sound.
