Mater Natura is Marco Lucchi’s digital rendering of “Stabat Mater” by Estonian composer Arvo Pärt, a sombre meditation on current events.

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“una preghiera pagana

(while hearing from Japan)” –Marco Lucchi

Credits:
Recorded & produced by Marco Lucchi
originally released 15 March 2011
musichevirtuali.org

based on Stabat Mater by Arvo Pärt

Track List:
Mater Natura (parte prima) [22:31]
Mater Natura (parte seconda) [22:56]
Stabat Mater [05:39]

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orchestra eclettica e sincretista performs live in this two-part release. Led by Marco Lucchi, this trio performs music by members of the o.e.s. collective.

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This album consists of two live performances of the same body of work, performed on the same ay at the same venue, in Carpi, Italy, on April 30, 2010.

Marco Lucchi – electronics, melodica, steel string acoustic guitar
Geoff Warren – flute, soprano sax
Roberto Corsini – nylon string electric guitar

music by Garrett Fisher, Elisa Luu, Marco Lucchi, Geoff Warren, Roberto Corsini
video samples here http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0IpT3DqNZck

“…in the silenced minutes on both “notturni” i lighted up an abat-jour and read Petrarca

i am a Fedele d’Amore….”
–Marco Lucchi

01 Notturno 1 (00:28:08)
02 Notturno 2 (00:29:15)

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orchestra eclettica e sincretista is a musical collective led by Marco Lucchi. The concept of this album is group members remixing or constructing pieces from tracks and samples contributed by other members.

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it is about remixing and reworking each other — an “internal” project
…it concerns the pleasure of a collective and shared work
…the title lightly refers to alchemy
-Marco Lucchi

Features tracks contributed by Steve Layton, Massimo Croce, Loalue, Cometa, Imago Meccano, Giza and Lolek, and sounds by Entia Non, Marco Lucchi, Kozo Ikeno, the Onomatopoeian, Celer, Christian Vasseur, Wara Tito Rios, Sonicbrat, Satoshi Arisaka, Naoki Ishida and Harold Nono

01 Steve Layton – Night Lights (Shintaro Sato)
02 Massimo Croce – Middan Tharir
03 Steve Layton – Canto Notturno (Giacomo Leopardi)
04 Imago Meccano & Marco Lucchi – Glitchy Fragment #1 (curtains remix)
05 Giza – o.e.s. sketch 1 entia non (Steve Layton)
06 Giza – o.e.s. sketch 2 (onomelotron)
07 Imago Meccano – Uncertain (Entia Non Remixed)
08 Giza – o.e.s. sketch 3 – celer 5 4
09 Steve Layton – O Saffo
10 Angelo Secondini – Evaporate
11 loALUe – Along the Serpentine, Under the Snow
12 Lolek – a material, a sound, a shape

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Described by Marco Lucchi as “just a suite of studies upon an arpeggio for piano” these works convey a pensive mood through interpretation by various instruments such as a mellotron and even a crackling record.

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01 Study 1 (electric piano, electric violin & mellotron)
02 Study 1 (electric piano, electric violin, mellotron & bells)
03 Study 2 (piano & vinyl)
04 Study 3 (piano & drone – reverse)
05 Study 4 (electric piano, electric violin & mellotron)
06 Study 4 (electric piano, electric violin, mellotron & bells)

Recorded & Produced by Marco Lucchi
Carpi, Italy
www.musichevirtuali.org

“il compositore” (cover illustration) by Miresi [a variant version of this image can also be found on Lucchi's "Fados" wh105]

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“Le joli coeur” is a large and growing work by various artists under the collective name orchestra eclettica e sincretista, which builds a diverse collection of variations on a very simple theme, just a few piano chords.

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This release comprises volumes 1 to 3. The international collaboration of talents was organized by Marco Lucchi of Italy.

Here is what Marco Lucchi has written about the project:

“le joli coeur” is the first project compiled by o.e.s. (orchestra eclettica e sincretista)…

o.e.s. is a collective working on shared projects…

www.myspace.com/orchestraecletticaesincretista is the site in which one could know more about o.e.s.

“le joli coeur” – commissioned by Mauro Carrera for an exibition of Jean Cocteau, with hommages to Cocteau by some contemporary artists, premiered in Milano, 23rd october 2008 – was originated on the ending cadenza of a song by The Penguin Cafe Orchestra…

the song is “Now Nothing” and it ends the album “Broadcasting from Home” released in 1984…

starting from these four chords’ cadenza o.e.s. artists (under the leading by Marco Lucchi) composed tracks or fragments, offering their interpretation…

the whole project was finished and compiled by Marco Lucchi in the ending days of 2008 and it is dedicated to the lovely memory of Simon Jeffes…

le joli coeur (a Simon Jeffes)

*cd 1

le joli coeur (a mio padre, con mio figlio)

musiche di Marco Lucchi con contributi di Alejo Nobili, Bram de Jonge, Hidekazu Wakabayashi, Rainier Lericolais e Simon Jeffes

registrato e mixato in tempo reale domenica 5 ottobre 2008 nello studio di Marco Lucchi

Dario Lucchi – corno
Marco Lucchi – elettroniche, registrazione, fonocomposizione, post-produzione

*cd 2

le joli coeur (contributi o.e.s.)

musiche di Marco Lucchi, Giza (Bram de Jonge), Alejo Nobili, _ , Umiomiomiomio (Umio Miyazaki), Hidekazu Wakabayashi, Christian Vasseur, Lolek (Jimmy Lolek), Rainier Lericolais,
Duet for Theremin and Lap Steel (Scott Burland), Louise Bronx e Simon Jeffes

track list

01 – marco (simon)
02 – bram
03 – alejo
04 – _
05 – _
06 – umio
07 – hidekazu
08 – christian
09 – jimmy
10 – rainier
11 – scott
12 – scott
13 – scott
14 – scott
15 – louise
16 – bram
17 – marco (simon)

*cd 3

le joli coeur (o.e.s. ensemble)

musiche di Marco Lucchi, Roberto Corsini, Mario Nobile, Dario Lucchi, Lucio Bosi, Giampaolo Violi,
Bram de Jonge, Alejo Nobili, _ , Hidekazu Wakabayashi, Christian Vasseur, Jimmy Lolek, Rainier Lericolais, Scott Burland, Louise Bronx e Simon Jeffes

registrato presso la sala prove di Lucio Bosi mercoledì 15 ottobre 2008
mixato nello studio di Giampaolo Violi giovedì 16 e mercoledì 22 ottobre 2008

Marco Lucchi – elettroniche, melodica, fonocomposizione
Roberto Corsini – chitarra
Mario Nobile – violoncello e viella
Dario Lucchi – corno
Lucio Bosi – percussioni
Giampaolo Violi – registrazione, fonocomposizione, post-produzione

o.e.s. (orchestra eclettica e sincretista) – le joli coeur
un progetto di Marco Lucchi, 2008
un ringraziamento a Mauro Carrera
cover illustration by Louise Bronx

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This collection of art songs represents a fusion of many folk, classical, neoclassical, and contemporary influences. Taking as its theme the Portuguese Fado, the most prominent influence, Marco Lucchi’s series of compositions were recorded by an ensemble between 1988 and 2008.

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Track order:

1. della Perla Lunare
(Cristina Blarzino, harp – Geoff Warren, flute – Laura Polato, piano)

11. Fado Atlantico
(Cristina Blarzino, harp – Geoff Warren, flutes – Quinto Grigatti, percussions – Marco Lucchi, keyboards)

Recorded and produced by Marco Lucchi
in Modena between 1988 and 2008.
Music and words by Marco Lucchi
* except “Temps Clar,” words by Andrea Lodi.
Mastered for Webbed Hand by C.P. McDill.

“You can consider it an album of songs, some with words (just a few) and some not …an album of love songs …about how much love can say about us and our world …love as a knowledge …love as a deep, very deep, knowledge …and music the same …they say that music is emotion, sense …yes, i agree …but music is knowledge too, my better way to try to understand the world and his enigmas …it is science …and love the same

…and she.“

—Marco Lucchi (Modena, 2008)

Read a terrific review of this album:

http://catalogueofwonders.blogspot.com/2010/05/italian-fado-marco-lucchi.html

Note: This release has been revised to correct an error. The original title listed the dates as 1998-2008. The correct dates are 1988-2008.

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Marco Lucchi continues his “Radure” series of conceptual releases with this fourth installment, centered on the Japanese word “iki” – a term (like the more familiar wabi-sabi) that is uniquely cultural, lacking a direct translation in our tongue. In one sense, it expresses a perception of an idealized aesthetic quality of ordinariness.

Lucchi composed a series of tracks inspired by “iki” and then recruited other artists to build onto this oeuvre with their own contributions. This release represents only a facet of that project.

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Track List:

1. Iki 7
2. Iki Impro 1 (with Akemi Takeya)
3. Iki Impro 2 (with Akemi Takeya)
4. Iki Impro 3 (with Akemi Takeya)
5. Iki Impro 4 (with Mori Chieko)
6. Iki Impro 5
7. Iki Impro 6 (with Gina Berrett)
8. Iki Impro 7 (with Akemi Takeya)
9. The Iki (with Alex Cortex & Faune)
10. Iki 0

The first track, “Iki 7″ is a live performance on piano by Marco Lucchi of the original Iki theme. Following this are numerous variants and interpretation performed by Lucchi and others.

“iki” is a japanese word that means detachment, grace, beauty, breath, life (and many other things…)

it is related to the geisha’s world

when i read the book by Kuki Shuzo about the “iki” i found many relations to my thoughts and feelings

so i start to compose some tracks dedicated to the “structure of the iki”, finding myself using old materials (weird tapes, piano sketches, turntables and even voice) i recorded many years ago when i first feel the wing of beauty and grace over me

then i put some of these tracks on my myspace page and contacted some artists to play with or to add original tracks

the final result is the fourth step of my “radure” project

–Marco Lucchi

About this album:
Total length – 01:04:27
Produced and recorded by Marco Lucchi
Marco Lucchi plays pianoforte & keyboards
Other credited contributors:
Akemi Takeya
Mori Chieko
Gina Berrett
Alex Cortex
Faune

Radure 4 is a multimedia presentation. To see many other contributions to the iki project, visit Marco Lucchi’s iki web page:

http://www.musichevirtuali.org/music/the_iki/index.html

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Marco Lucchi returns to Webbed Hand with another multimedia conceptual album, this one consisting of ten audio tracks, four videos and a poem. This release is centered on an inspiration drawn from the music scores of cinema.

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audio tracks:

1. gominimal #1
2. glitchy fragment #2
3. link #1
4. la dedicace
5. aquarium (marcus broesel’s close at 6pm remixed)
6. she facilitates the use of the shamisen
7. faust (deaf center’s lamp mien remixed)*
8. link #2
9. glitchy fragment #1
10. gominimal #2

*Note:Track #7 “faust (deaf center’s lamp mien remixed)” has been removed from this album at the request of the artist Erik Skodvin (of Deaf Center) and his label, due to copyright concerns.

Full release also includes four videos and a poem.
The videos:

1. apres-midi (wmv)
2. puppets and jugglers (wmv)
3. tomina (mpg)
4. an indian summer night (wmv)

All Music by Marco Lucchi except where noted.

Webbed Hand Records presents another release of a multimedia project composed by Italian avante-garde sound artist Marco Lucchi.

Here is Marco Lucchi’s introduction:

some perfect curtains is a sort of anthology of my latest work
it shows my love for the audio scores (no only the music) of films
they are kind of movies without images (well, sometimes with images…)
and they are some very acousmatic works
they are ending or opening titles of imaginary films too
and they “promote” me as a composer of music for films to come
at the same time they lead towards another project i’m going to start
this project shall be a cover project
and will feature an ensemble playing a repertory of ambient, experimental,
non-academic contemporary music

the curtains remind me of the pythagoric and orphic attitude to sound, music and imagination
and to the matching mole’s visions by robert wyatt
–Marco Lucchi, 2006
www.musichevirtuali.org

come sono le stelle
  O uso pane
l’albero di fico

vicino al cancello

ancora sui monti
bambine bianche

come la luce
parlano i mughetti:

non le dovevi ascoltare
che siamo noi
  verde, buio,
e nome dei figli

chiave delicata
  e la cima

di figure bagnate
  sono pile

escono dal fango
    le teste
delle patate:

una coroncina
di fuochi ma viva

  quella è vento
che viene soffiata,

   –Andrea Lodi

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Webbed Hand Records presents the audio release of a multimedia project curated and compiled by Marco Lucchi (who has two previous releases with us). This work brings together some notable talent in the areas of phonography, ambient and experimental music, as well as in poetry and film.

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1. aaron ximm – dukka
2. marco lucchi – aquarium (markus broesel remix)
3. urkuma – marcinelle
4. steve layton – alberti
5. steve layton – sky and sand
6. alex young – graviconcentrate
7. claudio rocchi – 17 inches // 2
8. steve layton Рjab̬s
9. alex young – hitsuji-gumo
10. urkuma – limini
11. marco lucchi – (as riddled as) the tide
12. aaron ximm – in a while

Compiled by Marco Lucchi. Full release also includes texts and video clips.

Webbed Hand Records presents the audio release of a multimedia project curated and compiled by Marco Lucchi (who has two previous releases with us). This work brings together some notable talent in the areas of phonography, ambient and experimental music, as well as in poetry and film.

Here is Marco Lucchi’s introduction to Radure 3:

Being third part of the project “radure” (music and creative philosophy), is dedicated to the oltreumano theme.
Oltreumano means “beyond human” and somehow it is related to sacred.
Not an orthodox sacred, but maybe something that is beyond human in a shamanic or orphic (or maybe buddhist – the boddhisattva) way.
You must listen to – and intend – it as dialogue between this world and other possible worlds.
It is dedicated to Elémire Zolla. To his memory.

Aaron Ximm
www.quietamerican.org

Marco Lucchi
www.musichevirtuali.org

Urkuma
www.sanfocahotel.com

Steve Layton
www.niwo.com

Claudio Rocchi
www.claudiorocchi.com

Alex Young

http://alexyoung.org

related sites

www.alexcortex.com
www.monohm.com
www.arovane.de
www.kenzak.com
www.panospria.com

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This long-form ambient piece is a collaboration of Marco Lucchi with his son, Dario. Marco handles the electronic parts, and Dario contributes improvisations on his French Horn. The work as a whole warmly illustrates the idea of “repetition with variation” as familiar motifs rotate but there are changes.

“I found an – insoluble, indefinite – ear” was recorded as it was performed. In real-time, in Marco’s home studio.

Marco describes the album as warm “like a fireplace” and suggests listening to it obliquely. Thematically this work is about the ear (you may recognize a certain sample about an ear from Blue Velvet), and a comparison is made between the french horn and the shape of the ear. The artist dedicates this work to Dale Lloyd (http://www.and-oar.org/artists_lloyd.html), a musician he admires very much.

Length: 01:15:01
Composed & Recorded by Marco Lucchi
in his home studio, December 2003

Personnel:
Marco Lucchi – electronics, samples and keyboards
with
Dario Lucchi – french horn

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