We’re excited to share the exclusive premiere of ‘School‘ the brand-new single and video from Italian composer AGA, taken from his forthcoming ‘SPOT EP‘ (out October 22nd). This one feels like a time machine: drenched in ’80s textures, it balances repetition and melody to create a vintage, melancholic, yet strangely comforting mood. Think New Order with a reflective twist.

But ‘School‘ isn’t just nostalgia. It’s about communication — real, sincere words versus the noise we’re bombarded with every day. The video, directed by Alexios Ciancio, beautifully captures that feeling of being a child lost in the grey of conformity, only to escape into imagination where geometry turns into movement and creativity is born.

Composed, performed, and mixed by AGA, with guitars from Max Bertoli and mastering by Alessandro Piatto (NOIA), School reminds us why looking out the window instead of at the blackboard might have been the right choice all along.

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School is the second single by the Italian composer AGA taken from the SPOT EP, which will be released October 22nd, 2025.
The song is an explicit tribute to the sound of the ’80s, built, as usual for AGA, on the repetition of sounds and vocals, which create a vintage, melancholic and yet sweet mood, inducing a state of trance that is beneficial for the listener.
Quoting New Order above all, the motto is: “I prefer white silence to empty words”, where white silence is the noise we face in everyday’s world. There’s no protest, but rather a focus on communication made of meaningful and sincere words.
Something unfortunately often lacking in schools, for reasons not related to individual teachers, but rather due to the organisation of the system itself. School is a song that praises those who can transmit vibrations of constant growth, for the benefit of the freedom of thought of others.
School was composed, performed, and mixed by Alessandro Antolini Guitars by Max Bertoli
Mastering by Alessandro Piatto (NOIA).
The video, based on an idea by AGA himself, was directed by Alexios Ciancio, who also designed the artwork. The visuals take us on a blurred journey through childhood memories, sometimes confused, merged with dreams and flashes of genius. A child gets lost among the school desks, distracted, imaginative, restless. The grey of conformity overwhelms him until he finds refuge in his own inner world.
It is then that compasses and set squares come to life, marching as if in a geometric dream, and in the chaos a spark is born: creativity. An homage for those who, as children, looked out the window instead of the blackboard.
(And perhaps, they were right to do so…)
AGA
AGA is a composer, creative performer and founder of the Drummer Caffè record label.
Born Alessandro Antolini, he’s been a drummer and drum teacher for over twenty years, after graduating at Middlesex University in London. Antolini has collaborated with the late Maestro Ezio Bosso and has composed and published 4 albums to date: R[Evolution], Dream On and more recently Imagine and Short B-Movies.
The musician’s intense concert activity includes key appearances in Italian and European theaters and clubs, with highlights as the openings for Tom Barman (dEUS) and Blaine L. Reininger (Tuxedomoon).