fare tredici

Jay Hill’s much anticipated EP, fare tredici, combines of rock, funk, blues, progressive, alternative and some classical and metal just for fun while building off diverse influences like The Beatles, Foo Fighters, Billy Joel, Electric Light Orchestra, and the Kelly Bell Band to create his own unique brand of “Funkabilly Rockternative”.

Pursuing his dreams, the stars quickly aligned for Jay after moving to Orlando in 2015. He was soon accepted by Full Sail University’s Artist Relations director Dale Rock (former drummer of Molly Hatchet) to be one of their recording artists and shortly after he began working on the follow-up to his 2012 debut “Ballads of Id”, recorded in Dublin, Ireland by Irish filmmaker, musician and producer Quintin Ahern (Army of Id).

With a huge backlog of songs in his bag he immediately found himself working with Grammy-Award winning engineer Juan Covas and engineers Jason Dale, Jon Larosa, and Addison Rivard at the controls. Word spread throughout Orlando and the top studio musicians on the area were enlisted to help complete the recordings including Brian Morgan (bassist for Kashif and Kenny G), Toronto guitarist and songwriter George Grosman, drummers Jorge Villar and Rich Elkins. Also featured will be violinist Tanner Johnson, who will appear on many of the songs on the new album along with Pittsburgh guitarist Brian Koval and Dublin artists, producer and guitarist Phil Campbell and vocalist Camille Blanche.

In early 2017, Brett Hestla (of Creed, Dark New Day, and Virgo’s Merlot) stepped in to not only produce the album but to play on six of the tracks. The final result is a formidable collection of 13 songs split into two EPs, the first being the 2020 release, “fare tredici”, featuring “Goin’ to California”.