Marco Santilli develops his compositions by carefully blending influences from different European styles, including classical, contemporary and folk music as well as world music. His unique style emerges from this combination of different genres in such a way that their various sources are no longer recognizable. If we had to label "La Stüa", we would find it categorized under "Jazz". Jazz in the sense of an open style of music and, typically Santilli, in Italian. In Italian? Yes, because although these are instrumental pieces, they reflect certain kinds of mood, themes and melodies that hark back to the musicality of his mother tongue. Probably for the first time, a jazz quartet meets a classical wind quintet in a musical context "(CH)ontaminato" (a pun on Switzerland (CH) and contaminated).