For Your Grammy® Consideration

frost

Drum & Lace

Best New Age, Ambient, or Chant Album

Drum & Lace, aka Sofia degli Alessandri-Hultquist, is an artist and composer from Florence, Italy. Her music has been described as being genre-fluid and having a "chameleon-like nature" (A Closer Listen), melding together sampled field recordings, lush layers of synths, chamber instruments and electronic beats. She draws inspiration from film music, music concrete and nature to create textural electronica, often blending unlikely sounds with one another.

Drum & Lace’s musical education started at Berklee College of Music, where she studied in the Film Scoring & Composition program, before continuing her masters at New York University (Music Technology / 3D Audio). Her background, both in scoring and band worlds, have lead her to composing music for film/tv, as well as for dance, theater, and other mixed media. 

Drum & Lace’s film releases in 2023 include LGBTQ+ feature romantic comedy ‘Red White & Royal Blue’ for Amazon Studios, and Lionsgate horror film ‘Cobweb’, directed by Samuel Bodin (Netflix’s Marianne). Other notable film/tv work includes AppleTV+ Original Series ‘Dickinson’, 20th Century Studios’ period-comedy ‘Rosaline’’, NBC’s ‘Good Girls’ and ‘Summering’ (Sundance 2022). 

In 2022, Drum & Lace released her debut LP Natura on ambient vinyl label Past Inside the Present, which features appearances from the London Contemporary Orchestra (LCO) and Italian drummer Valentina Magaletti. This marked her first LP after a string of EPs, singles and soundtrack releases in previous years under the Drum & Lace moniker. Her most recent release, Frost EP, is a collection of ambient works that explore the use of voice and electronic textures to create hypnotic and soothing soundscapes. 

Drum & Lace’s live performances often feature audio-visual or spatial sound elements, which reflect her interest in the intersection of music and technology. She has shared the stage with the likes of Suzanne Ciani, Sqürl, Kaitlyn Aurelia Smith, Shirley Manson (Garbage), William Basinksi, Hans-Joachim Roedelius and Black Midi, and has performed at venues and festivals such as Moog Fest, Slingshot, National Sawdust Discovery Festival, EartH Hackney, Cafe OTO and Festa Dell’Opera (Brescia, Italy). 

She’s currently finishing her second LP, due out in 2024. Drum & Lace is currently based in London, UK. 

‘Frost’ Credits

All tracks written, produced & performed by Drum & Lace 
Vocals by Drum & Lace 

Frost 
Mixed by Drum & Lace 
Mastered by James Bernard @ Ambient Mountain House 

Felt 
Mixed by Drum & Lace 
Mastered by Amy Dragon 

In the Wind 
Mixed by Drum & Lace 
Mastered by Rafael Anton Irisarri @ Black Knoll Studio 

Plantae (Ambient Mix) 
Mixed by Paul Corley and Drum & Lace 
Mastered by Ian Hultquist @ Little Twig Studio 

Sospiro  
Mixed by Drum & Lace 
Mastered by Ian Hultquist @ Little Twig Studio 

Album Art by Carla Batley