c'è in giro da tempo una nuova 'musica assoluta', astratta, che sta fra la cosiddetta 'ambient music' e la 'drone music', nei pressi dei cosiddetti 'soundscape' o, meglio ancora, degli 'innerscape' .. a volte ha tratti più 'cameristici', o addirittura per strumento solista, a volte è più 'sinfonica' .. a volte usa solo sonorità 'sintetiche', a volte invece anche strumenti 'tradizionali' .. ha antecedenti illustri, sia nella cosiddetta musica 'classica', diciamo storica, sia nella 'popular music' e nel jazz .. a quella soprattutto io guardo

https://www.facebook.com/notes/marco-lucchi/musica-assoluta/10155811583217624/

I wish to dedicate this collection to Paul Minns (Third Ear Band)

"musica assoluta" (ottobre 2020)

a list of the works I made (or which I was involved in) during the month of October

(2020) October works

https://www.marktwainforest.com/hiking/bell-mountain/

Return To Bell Mountain

the tracks I made (or which I was involved in) during 2020

(2020) works

Spirit Of Kolus

When I lived right outside Kansas City, I would often take the dog for an evening walk to the playground of Belinder Elementary School, two blocks from home. I'd let Topsy run free and, sometimes, I'd sit on the grassy slope below the gymnasium and play my banjo. This is a tune I came up with on a warm summer night. I'm sure it's just bits and pieces of other tunes, but don't they all sound alike anyway? ;-)

See exciting video footage of this tune being played here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uiZwL5zewZ4

The banjo is tuned low (f-Bb-F-Bb-C) and strung with heavier-than-usual strings. I'm enjoying the sound of it these days.

Image: Soccer goal at Belinder Elementary School, Prairie Village, Kansas. Watercolor, 4" x 6", May, 2009

Belinder

Marco Lucchi : tape and treatments

morphing the wonderful and emotional finale of "Passio Domini nostri Jesu Christi secundum Joannem" by Arvo Part

2011 ---> 2020

the complete album
https://marcolucchi.bandcamp.com/album/secundum-joannem

bandcamp

secundum Joannem

Marco Lucchi : synth, tape and treatments

4 gennaio 2020

here too
https://meticulousmidgets.bandcamp.com/track/the-call-of-the-chthonic

The Call of the Chthonic

Marco Lucchi : tape and treatments

'morphing' "Dauggier" and "Quarro" by Boson Spin
https://soundcloud.com/boson_spin/dauggier
https://soundcloud.com/boson_spin/quarro

7 gennaio 2020

I have seen the dark universe yawning
Where the black planets roll without aim,
Where they roll in their horror unheeded,
Without knowledge, or lustre, or name.

H. P. Lovecraft, Nemesis

Spinning bosons

Bandcamp

Boson Spin & Marco Lucchi - Spinning bosons

Zuhé : keyboards, synth and electronics

reworking "So old" by Marco Lucchi
https://marcolucchi.bandcamp.com/track/so-old

gennaio 2020

Marco Lucchi & Zuhé - So Old

Marco Lucchi : electric organ, analog synth and Mellotron

for Naviar Haiku
https://naviarlab.tumblr.com/post/190146715083/naviarhaiku314-buoyantly-we-go

13 gennaio 2020

Hyo-hyo to shite mizu wo ajiwau

Taneda Santoka 

Buoyantly we go / Like the wind, / Tasting water. (Tr. by R. H. Blyth)

Marco Lucchi - Hyo Hyo (Naviar Haiku # 314)

BLACK APPLE

Purchase: bit.ly/35jLaxx
Catalog #: GN63
October 1, 2020
2xCASS+DIGI

The midnight hour crept unto thee with hasty caution, revealing 'A Little Night Music: Aural Apparitions from the Geographic North', our third putrid prowl into Halloween-inspired sounds to torment and tantalize throughout the season. For this bout of distinguished dementia, we culled 31 brand new tracks of haunted hysteria conjured by some of the most alluring ambientists and outer auteurs from around the world. 

Spanning over two hours across two cassettes, 'A Little Night Music…’ unfurls itself in a literary horror structure, appearing and disappearing through a stirring Prologue and Epilogue by London-based cellist Oliver Coates, with each side of the cassettes introducing its Chapter with a chilling dirge courtesy of the inscrutable Geographic North House Band.  

What fills the ensuing pages is a mirthful tale concocted by an assembly exploring a realm all at once mournful and fatalist at its core. Entries from Clarice Jensen, Malibu, and the collaboration of Like a Villain and Christina Vantzou bring about endless glacial landscapes accented by pitch-grey skies. Conversely, transmissions from Michael Valentine West, M. Sage, Gregg Kowalsky, and Austrian ambient stalwart Fennesz explore richly textured mines of foreboding glee. 

Suspicion is the word when considering Zelienople’s eerie horse-carriage clip-clop, Nick Malkin’s neon-lit noir-jazz, or Carmen Villain’s gripping dub excursion. Elsewhere Ki Oni, Takagi Masakatsu, and Mary Lattimore (joined here by Paul Sukeena) provide glimmers of warmth amidst a tortured chill. 

Notable is the resurrection of Lotus Plaza and his solemnly hopeful piano composition, while barren hallucinations courtesy of Alex Zhang Hungtai, Ilyas Ahmed, and Danny Paul Grody set the stage for a third act confrontation from Atlantans Fit of Body and Algiers, providing a one-two serving of sensual unrest and cautionary homily.  

With hope and resolve shimmering through the final moments of our journey, know that all proceeds from the digital and cassette editions go directly toward Feminist Women's Health Center, an Atlanta-based nonprofit providing safe, accessible, and compassionate abortion and gynecological care to all those who need it without judgement.

feministcenter.org

Louise Bock - "Flummox"

Félicia Atkinson - "Sequoia"

Nick Malkin - "An Hour Pulled Lengthwise"

From the forthcoming live album 'Figures In Open Air' out 6th November on Late Music.

Pre-order the double CD edition now → https://latemusic.ffm.to/figuresinopenair

Sarah Davachi - Diaphonia Basilica (Version)

The Storms of Jupiter

pájaro en rama

pájaro en rama - meditative nesting™ interlude

violin / metronom, trumpet: matthias boss

metroduett

Marco Lucchi : piano, organ and fx
Fernando Pessoa : words and eyes
Pete Swinton : treatments, fx + mixing
https://soundcloud.com/marcolucchi/piano-patterns-no-6?fbclid=IwAR21nZbl8oi4Qpz3M_n0DLvDp4BAaPNjLjibTTKGZR3oCoV3837X8LhxZzc

Marco Lucchi, Fernando Pessoa, Pete Swinton - Piano Patterns No. 6

Marco Lucchi : piano, organ and fx
Mean Flow : keyboards and treatments

a rework by Mean Flow of a previous track by Marco Lucchi

for "piano patterns", a project by Marco Lucchi
https://soundcloud.com/marcolucchi/sets/piano-patterns

ottobre 2020

Marco Lucchi & Mean Flow - High Mountains (piano patterns no 6)

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Marco Lucchi : piano, organ and tone generator

8 ottobre 2020

*****

Meu pensamento é um rio subterrâneo.
Para que terras vai e donde vem?
Não sei... Na noite em que o meu ser o tem
Emerge dele um ruído subitâneo

De origens no Mistério extraviadas
De eu compreendê-las..., misteriosas fontes
Habitando a distância de ermos montes
Onde os momentos são a Deus chegados...

De vez em quando luze em minha mágoa
Como um farol num mar desconhecido
Um movimento de correr, perdido
Em mim, um pálido soluço de água...
 
E eu relembro de tempos mais antigos
Que a minha consciência da ilusão
Águas divinas percorrendo o chão
De verdores uníssonos e amigos,

E a ideia de uma Pátria anterior
À forma consciente do meu ser
Dói‑me no que desejo, e vem bater
Como uma onda de encontro à minha dor.
 
Escuto‑o... Ao longe, no meu vago tacto
Da minha alma, perdido som incerto,
Como um eterno rio indescoberto,
Mais que a ideia de rio certo e abstracto...
 
E p'ra onde é que ele vai, que se extravia
Do meu ouvi‑lo ? A que cavernas desce?
Em que frios de Assombro é que arrefece?
De que névoas soturnas se anuvia?
 
Não sei... Eu perco‑o... E outra vez regressa
A luz e a cor do mundo claro e actual,
E na interior distância do meu Real
Como se a alma acabasse, o rio cessa...

Fernando Pessoa

piano patterns no 8

"I'm a mellow artist, ageing 69. I love and release eclectic music, from post-classical to drone. My fave instrument is the Mellotron."

Così, sinteticamente, di solito mi presento.

In genere compongo musica partendo dal suono delle tastiere, ma il mio vero strumento è il registratore.

O i software di registrazione.

"I was made for loving and making recorded music."

Confido da sempre nel potere evocativo e orfico della musica, nella sua capacità di riconsegnarci a mondi più veri e più giusti, più belli di quelli in cui di solito viviamo.

"Ich bin ein kosmische Kurier"

I'm using these tools: Mellotron micro, Waldorf Blofeld synthesizer, Behringer Crave, IK Multimedia Uno synth, Roland Juno synth, Volca keys, Casio digital piano, micropiano Korg, Manetron (iPad app), iTampura (iPad app), Eko 11 (...) string acoustic guitar, electric violin, Orla analogic expander, tenor, treble and descant recorders, soprano and tenor tin whistle, Akai, Roland, Alesis and Arturia controllers, upright piano, Squier 3/4 electric guitar, melodica, Bubble Harp (iPad app), Schoenhut toy harp, soprano ukulele, Eko acoustic guitar, Peavey Composer acoustic guitar, Kurzweill micropiano, Boss and JamMan loop stations , Behringher multi-fx, Olympus portable digital recorder, Phonic, Behringer and Yamaha mixers, Audacity, Paulstretch, various players and plug-ins .. (that's all, folks, I think ..)

latest releases:

https://whitelabrecs.bandcamp.com/album/the-book-of-dreams
https://chitrarecords.bandcamp.com/album/lieder-ohne-worte 
https://ambientologist.bandcamp.com/album/suggestiva
https://ambientologist.bandcamp.com/album/venusia
https://hibernate.bandcamp.com/album/as-riddled-as-the-tide

for further works please go to my bandcamp page
https://marcolucchi.bandcamp.com/

and to 
http://webbedhandrecords.com/
http://www.laverna.net/home/
https://silentflow.org/

iTunes and Spotify as well ..
feed and share ..
https://open.spotify.com/artist/1TRilVaDaQw0ksGqU5tuCh?si=zXD-0xFWS-2yrUs542SH9A

SoundCloud è la piattaforma musicale che preferisco perché è soprattutto il regno degli ‘amateurs’, di quelli che fanno musica per sé e per gli amici .. come quando da ragazzi si condividevano con gli altri le invenzioni e le creazioni .. io sostanzialmente sono rimasto lì e così .. non sempre, ovviamente, ma spesso ci trovo delle cose che valgono altrettanto - se non di più - rispetto a quelle più affermate e conosciute