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Mario Layne Fabrizio (b. 1996) is a drummer, percussionist, composer, poet and visual artist from New Jersey. He has performed with such notable musicians as Cecil McBee, Claudio Roditi, Joe Morris, Abalye Cissoko and Jason Palmer. He also premiered Arturo O’Farrill’s Little Tiny Walls, the theatre piece The Black Clown at the American Repertory Theatre, and played in Jason Moran’s STAGED instillation with Cecil McBee. Fabrizio performs around the world bringing his “ferocious but subtle drumming,” (LondonJazzNews) to the stage. Some notable performances include those at the Salzburg Jazz Festival (Austria), Jazz at Lincoln Center (NYC & Shanghai, China), Panama Jazz Festival, Birdland (NYC), The Whitney Museum (NYC), Kunming’s International Drum Festival (China) and The Kennedy Center (DC). As a performer, he regularly performs in a variety of artistic media (including but not limited to playing “jazz-music” (from all time periods), new-creative music, “Latin” music, chamber music and “popular-dance” musics). As a composer, he has been selected to write for National Sawdust in the 2020 New Works Commission.

In addition, his focus and methodology is largely based around creating stories with various substrata that integrate freedom within a creative malleable structure and works that have different dramatis personae that use various modes of development. He focuses on creating new works, but, he also draws upon methodologies from the past and approaches them in fresh, unique ways. Fabrizio does not discriminate unnecessarily by genre and medium; he blends comedy, film, dance, literature, visual art and more in his work. Scoring films, arranging existing pieces and writing for various mixed ensembles are also part of his repertoire. He believes in the arts as a means to connect people, project life experience and stimulate the brain, body, heart and spirit.

His influences include mystic/spiritual/dream literature, standup comedy, visual art, nature, film (especially science-fiction and surrealist films), dimension, spirituality, the intuition, dreams and all beautiful music.

Tropos, a project Mario co-leads, released a new record on May 15th 2020, called Axioms // 75 AB which is placed on Biophilia Records.