With Lucifer, Kompakt presents an album of rare beauty from two masters of modern music. A family affair, it’s a collaboration between the Italian father-and-son duo of Luciano Michelini and Lorenzo Dada, whose combined histories bring to Lucifer a depth of experience alongside clarity of vision and a finely tuned, neatly developed combined compositional voice. A lovely, beguiling suite of music that combines the electronic and the acoustic, the urban and the pastoral, its gorgeous night-eye vision and tender melancholy sits neatly within the Kompakt universe, while offering the curious listener some rich new perspectives.

There is already plenty to know both artists by. Lorenzo Dada creates across multiple fields – a techno producer and DJ who has already worked with the likes of Jay Haze, Fete, Leo Benassi, and Der, he’s released a small clutch of stylish, smartly designed EPs, and a solo album, Second Life (2018). His complementary background in classical music and composition informs his ensemble project, Tears Of Blue (who appear on Lucifer), where Dada paints with neo-classical tones for a quartet of violin, viola, cello and grand piano, supplemented by electronics for live performance.

Luciano Michelini’s history is yet richer. He may be best known, to many, for his piece “Frolic”, the theme to Larry David’s Curb Your Enthusiasm series; it was also sampled by Snoop Dogg for 2022’s “Crip Ya Enthusiasm”. But there’s much more to Michelini’s story. A successful soundtrack composer, Michelini both studied and taught at the Conservatoro di Santa Cecilia, and worked for RCA from the sixties to the eighties; his soundtracks from this period are gorgeous examples of the form, particularly his work for Il Decamerone Nero (1972), L’Isola Degli Uomini Pesce (1979), and the devastatingly gorgeous Dimensione Donna (1977).

In the eighties, Michelini and his wife Anna Gutling founded the Electronic Music Division studio and academy in Rome, which is where the majority of Lucifer was recorded. Dada reflects on the experience: “We never worked together before, so it was all new for both of us,” with Michelini adding, “I truly love this experience with my son. He’s a talented pianist and composer. I am not very familiar with electronic music nowadays, but we did it fluently.” There’s certainly a familial energy at play through Lucifer, and you can hear how Dada and Michelini, through exploration and experiment, find a shared language, balancing Dada’s tendency toward minimalism, and Michelini’s composerly voice.

Lucifer flows as a suite that interweaves electronic music with acoustic instruments: the lonely sigh of saxophone; Michelini’s lush, verdant piano; the weeping strings of Tears Of Blue (recorded at the studio of Michelini’s friend, the late Maestro, Ennio Morricone). These multiple voices are located within the electronic sighs and swarms from Dada’s kit; there are moments of propulsion, and passages of lambent drift, where the album revels in its tonal sweetness. If it flows so effortlessly, that’s because Lucifer was designed that way, as a suite or a sonata of sorts.

And the title? Dada reflects, “Lucifer was an angel who decided not to be one anymore. The miracle of life is that we can decide what we want to be, even if we are born as angels or vice versa.

LUCIFER - KOMPAKT

TASCAM DR-05

Lorenzo Dada Extended Set (Hotel Butterfly / Ultrabeat)

Lorenzo Dada Modular Live for the Last Event of Goa Club Rome. 
Recorded 31.10.2021 at Goa Club. 

Line Up:
Vanessa D'Alessandro, Vicky, Francesco Maria, Lorenzo Dada Live, Eva Geist, Donato Dozzy, Iride, Valerio Zero, GNMR, Giancarlino, Giorgio Gigli, Marcolino, Adiel.

Goa Club

Lorenzo Dada Live - Goa Club Closing "The Last Dance" (31.10.21)

Atmosphere

Planets

Improvviso in Do diesis minore

Human Touch

Waterfalls

Clouds

After Us

Organic, Balearic, Ambient and natural warm sound with rotary mixer.

Electronic Monday at NAOS Rome (Mule Musiq)

Electronic Pulse at Apophis Milan w/ Lorenzo Dada & Diana. 
www.instagram.com/electronicpulse.milan

Lorenzo Dada b2b Diana at Apophis Milan

Buy/stream: https://kompakt.fm/releases/lucifer_lp_dl

With Lucifer, Kompakt presents an album of rare beauty from two masters of modern music. A family affair, it’s a collaboration between the Italian father-and-son duo of Luciano Michelini and Lorenzo Dada, whose combined histories bring to Lucifer a depth of experience alongside clarity of vision and a finely tuned, neatly developed combined compositional voice. A lovely, beguiling suite of music that combines the electronic and the acoustic, the urban and the pastoral, its gorgeous night-eye vision and tender melancholy sits neatly within the Kompakt universe, while offering the curious listener some rich new perspectives.

There is already plenty to know both artists by. Lorenzo Dada creates across multiple fields – a techno producer and DJ who has already worked with the likes of Jay Haze, Fete, Leo Benassi, and Der, he’s released a small clutch of stylish, smartly designed EPs, and a solo album, Second Life (2018). His complementary background in classical music and composition informs his ensemble project, Tears Of Blue (who appear on Lucifer), where Dada paints with neo-classical tones for a quartet of violin, viola, cello and grand piano, supplemented by electronics for live performance.

Luciano Michelini’s history is yet richer. He may be best known, to many, for his piece “Frolic”, the theme to Larry David’s Curb Your Enthusiasm series; it was also sampled by Snoop Dogg for 2022’s “Crip Ya Enthusiasm”. But there’s much more to Michelini’s story. A successful soundtrack composer, Michelini both studied and taught at the Conservatoro di Santa Cecilia, and worked for RCA from the sixties to the eighties; his soundtracks from this period are gorgeous examples of the form, particularly his work for Il Decamerone Nero (1972), L’Isola Degli Uomini Pesce (1979), and the devastatingly gorgeous Dimensione Donna (1977).

In the eighties, Michelini and his wife Anna Gutling founded the Electronic Music Division studio and academy in Rome, which is where the majority of Lucifer was recorded. Dada reflects on the experience: “We never worked together before, so it was all new for both of us,” with Michelini adding, “I truly love this experience with my son. He’s a talented pianist and composer. I am not very familiar with electronic music nowadays, but we did it fluently.” There’s certainly a familial energy at play through Lucifer, and you can hear how Dada and Michelini, through exploration and experiment, find a shared language, balancing Dada’s tendency toward minimalism, and Michelini’s composerly voice.

Lucifer flows as a suite that interweaves electronic music with acoustic instruments: the lonely sigh of saxophone; Michelini’s lush, verdant piano; the weeping strings of Tears Of Blue (recorded at the studio of Michelini’s friend, the late Maestro, Ennio Morricone). These multiple voices are located within the electronic sighs and swarms from Dada’s kit; there are moments of propulsion, and passages of lambent drift, where the album revels in its tonal sweetness. If it flows so effortlessly, that’s because Lucifer was designed that way, as a suite or a sonata of sorts.

And the title? Dada reflects, “Lucifer was an angel who decided not to be one anymore. The miracle of life is that we can decide what we want to be, even if we are born as angels or vice versa.” This feels somehow apposite: there’s certainly something of the transformative, and the transportive, in Lucifer, a unique family collaboration of rare poetry and sensitivity, where two generations meet in the modern crucible that is the electronic music studio.

Lucifer

Contemporary Lullaby

Lorenzo Dada / Luciano Michelini / Tears of Blue - Contemporary Lullaby

Open Sky

Lorenzo Dada / Luciano Michelini - Open Sky

Golfo Mistico

Lorenzo Dada / Luciano Michelini - Golfo Mistico

Panorama

Lorenzo Dada / Luciano Michelini - Panorama

Samba

Lorenzo Dada / Luciano Michelini - Samba

Kompakt Record Store Session w/ Lorenzo Dada.
Cologne, Germany.

KOMPAKT Record Store Session (Vinyl Only)

Lorenzo Dada & Leo Benassi presents “Island Ep” their last release on Mule Musiq.

Mule Musiq Release Event at RHIZOME RADIO

Lorenzo Dada Live at Culprit Session - Off Sonar 2015 (La Terrrazza)

Video Recorded on be.at-tv  http://be-at.tv/bwQHAA

Bpm Festival 2016 - Lorenzo Dada Live at Ya'ah Muul (Culprit Stage On Be-at.tv)

Original Music played and composed by Lorenzo Dada.

Think Twice - Piano Version

Youtube Video 
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DG5igbJkiKM

Today more than ever we all need an ordinary day.. Original composition by Lorenzo Dada. Original Piano, vocal and arrangment.
This track is actually unsigned.

Video

Ordinary day

DADA+JAZE :: Echo Parck Ep :: 

1-Echo Park :: DADA+JAZE
2-Broken Glass :: DADA - Jay Haze Remix
3-Broken Glass :: DADA Original
4-Alex :: DADA Original

Echo Park :: Jay Haze &amp; Lorenzo Dada (Original)

Semi modular Live set by Lorenzo Dada recorded at Goa Club thursday march 21st. Goaultrabeat night with Lorenzo Dada Live, Eduardo De La Calle and Silvie Loto.

Lorenzo Dada Live at Goa Club (21.03.19)

Modular Piano

Spellbound Train

4 No Fly Zone

Once In Awhile

Der Leopard

Modular

Harmonic Wave

Don't Be Late

Somehow

Ceremony

KOMPAKT / MULE MUSIQ / WOLF + LAMB

Lorenzo Dada is steadily building his reputation as a producer who is  influenced by his classical background. From the start Lorenzo has been a  classical composer and pianist with a  degree from the prestigious Conservatory of Saint Cecilia in Rome. From  this Lorenzo has blended Classical and Electronic music for labels such as Culprit LA, No.19 Music, Resopal Schallware Berlin, Contexterrior / Tuning Spork, Get Physical Music and  more..
 
Lorenzo has held residency with Goa Ultrabeat at Goa Club in Rome since 2014. For the past 10 years Lorenzo Dada has been playing concerts and shows  in Rome, Italy alongside influences (Dj Koze, Zip, Dj Qu and many  others), gaining musical experience and outlook. He has also played in  events held around the world including BPM in Mexico, WMC in Miami and  Off Sonar in Barcelona.
 
He has showcased his Live as a guest  artist at events held at GOA Club in Rome, as well as opening for Marco  Carola’s DJ Set at Music On in Rome, and before Sven Vath at GOA  Ultrabeat and Studios for Cocoon Rome.

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