Luminance returns with a new various artist, following the labels’ debut ‘Uno’ and welcoming 8 new artists with contributions spanning between Ambient, Nocturnal Jazz, Krautrock and Dub Techno.
Opens up the release ‘Lately’ by Michele di Martino featuring Athena’s vocals where piano patterns and spoken words fluctuate through an always evolving drone, constantly building tension. The second tune, by Canadian Vito Lucente, is a melancholic liturgy where abrasive synths trace lines between hallucinated field recordings that seem to resonate from long forgotten times. The 3rd offering of the release is by Rome’s Marco uBIK Bonini which here collaborates with Marcello Allulli on the sax for a mysterious and haunting night walk through the dark woods of Twin Peaks. For the 4th tune owner Marco Catapano returns to the label with a rework of ‘Blessing’ by Jacopo Buda, previously released on the homonymous Album, and that now Marco turns into a more minimalistic and eerie piece where sax lines intersecate creating unexpected balances. Bologna’s Nizaar takes the lessons of concrete music pioneers and updates them with Floydian guitar sounds and psychedelic Fx's creating a fresh and perfectly crafted composition which will give joy to all the audiophiles out there. On a deeper route we welcome to the label Random Numbers’ owner BXP that contributes with a meditative and calm inducing dub techno piece through raw tape-filtered Roland 606 sounds, field recordings and ethereal pads. Last but not least, on closing duties Aspect Ratio with ‘Surfing The Point’ gives birth to a 10 minutes luminous ride between echoes of 70’s German Electronics and hints of shoegaze

released July 30, 2021

Mastering by Giuseppe Ielasi
Photo courtesy of Chiara Benzi
Graphic design by Luca De Cristofaro
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07 Aspect Ratio - Surfing The Point (SNIPPET)

06 BXP - Ossa (SNIPPET)

05 Nizaar - Once In A Blue Moon (SNIPPET)

04 Jacopo Buda - Blessing (Marco Catapano Rework) (SNIPPET)

03 Marco UBIK Bonini Ft. M. Allulli - Northwest Passage (SNIPPET)

02 Vito Lucente - Observations From A Distant Plain (SNIPPET)

01 Michele Di Martino, Athena - Lately (SNIPPET)

This meditative 12 minutes piece comes from the mind of label owner Marco Catapano and Demetrio Cecchitelli who contributed with some transverse flute patterns. Organ drones, low frequencies and emphasized flute notes combine together creating an almost primitive atmosphere of spiritual enlightment. Laurum comes with a static shot by Marco himself.
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released April 1, 2022
Photo by Marco Catapano
Mastering by Alessandro Piatto - N.O.I.A studios
Graphic design by Giulio Urbini

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Marco Catapano Ft. Demetrio Cecchitelli - Laurum

Metaphysical geographies as invocations and intimate lo-fi recordings, huge vocal walls and minimal sound objects, the collapse of language as lysergic noise and chthonic voices, dream-ancestral choirs, concrete elements in an electro-acoustic, saturating, smokey, pulsating fusional flow, entropic and isolationist, invaded by impro sessions as inexhaustible, infesting and liminal deviations
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Written and mixed by Serena Dibiase
Mastered by Giuseppe Ielasi
Artwork by Andrea Dibiase

Serena Dibiase - Dal Confine Ghiacciato La Lince Salta

“Luminance is an Italian based record label run by Marco Catapano and Alessandro Laezza focused on the contemplative and ecstatic sides of contemporary electronic music. The first offering from this new imprint is a Various Artists which feautures a wide spectrum of musical styles from young but highly talented musicians.

The release starts with Demetrio Cecchitelli’s ‘In Eine Welt Entrückt’: an elegant and intense compositions built around a mix of piano, flute and spoken word as well as some effective field recordings. Born in Bologna but currently living in Amsterdam, Bmbmnd continues the journey with his ‘Calathea Orbifolia’: a collaboration with the photographer Alc Ks which will have you floating up and down through clouds for 6 minutes in a sweet crescendo and diminuendo. The third composition of the release is from a great musician and video artist from Rome: Camilla Pisani. Divided into 3 parts, her ‘Everybody Leaves’ is a voyage into a fragile but luminous world which will deeply touch the most sensitive hearts.
Label owner Marco Catapano contributes with the 4th composition of the Album, a piece called ‘Terre Luminose’ which in English means ‘Luminous Lands’. The composition starts with a looped guitar which soon offers space to some choral elements and an epic organ chord progression, all combining together to create a sense of emotional tension.
The album goes on with ‘Atikan’ by Fluitudo, moniker of Alessandro Laezza, the co-owner of the Label, and Giuseppe Curzio. The piece sets itself in an hallucinated and slow moving dimension where spoken word meets trip hop influences with some nordic ambient elements.
Valerio Maiolo is the artist in charge for the 6th tune with his piece ‘Contemplation Of Blue’: starting with audio interferences the tune softly grows for 10 minutes until reaching its core point with an harmonica solo which, combined with the overtone singing, creates an unexpected ‘bluesy mantra’ that, we’re sure of this, has the power to heal broken souls.
‘Nowhere $$$’ by Davide Bartolomei is the closing piece of the Album: a shamanic and ancestral odyssey of rarefied sounds and haunting rhythms from a mysterious land.” 

Mastered by Giuseppe Ielasi

Luminance 2019

01 Demetrio Cecchitelli - In Eine Welt Entrückt

To contribute with some relief during this global virus induced lockdown we decided to share with you a free download  EP from Demetrio Cecchitelli.
Through the two tracks 'Hidden' and 'Lost' field recordings combine with filtered piano chords for a beautiful, nostalgic yet eerie, dive into long forgotten worlds.
The artwork is a photo taken by Chiara Benzi in a Chernobyl house, taking us to further considerations on the presence of men on earth and the ephemeral condition that bounds us all.

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Lost

Demetrio Cecchitelli - Lost

Blessing is the debut album of Jacopo Buda, an experimental musician whose research investigates the infinite possibilities given by the encounter between the trumpet sound and that of human voice through modular synths’ manipulation.
'Incanto', the opening song, immediately transports us into a narcotic and timeless dimension. Here, an ancient folk chant blends with an hypnotic and enveloping texture, kidnapping the listener into an ecstasy\hypnosis that could be imagined as a perfect soundtrack for a Tarkovsky’s movie scene.
The 2nd song, ‘Temple’, is a very short but emblematic composition - the pointillistic dissolution of the trumpet in this interlude prepares us to the exotic excursion of Hassellian memory that is 'Jungle’: a deep dive into shamanic sounds deeply influenced by african rhythms.
In 'Ritagli', the trumpet returns to its classic timbre and fills, with its warmth, the spaces traced by a technoid pattern which cyclically appears and disappears in a mesmerizing loop.
'Blessing', the title track, is a slow and mysterious ceremonial that reminds us of lynchian’s Twin Peaks scenarios and stands out as a true manifesto of Buja’s work, between organic elements and electronic manipulation. 
Closes the Album the bonus track ’Black Is’, a dedication to the famous video art work by Aldo Tambellini.

Album artwork by Julian Soardi

Recorded during quararantine in Rimini, March 2020 (except for track 6).

Luminance 2020

Blessing

Jacopo Buda - Ritagli

Jacopo Buda - Incanto

Record label focused on the contemplative and ecstatic side of contemporary Electronic Music run by Marco Catapano and Alessandro Laezza. With 'Luminance' the two try to navigate deep into the most obscure and unkown parts of the global underground culture looking for hidden gems to be brought to light.

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