Marco Lucchi is an Italian composer and multimedia artist. He creates avant-garde compositions that leans toward ambient and new age. They often incorporate other forms of media and border on the theatrical. There are three excellent online albums available, all showing different aspects of his art.

The first album is mysteriously titled I found an - Insoluble, Indefinite Ear. The 75 minute single track features Marco on electronics and his son, Dario, on french horn. It is a haunting but slow moving piece full of repetition. There’s a sample dialoque from the film Blue Velvet that sets up the title and theme. The piece is very meditative and works best with a restlful but attentive listen.

Tantra à L’usage Des Anges is a multi-media work recorded live in 1999. It is an electroacoustic work with the emphasis clearly on acoustic. Marco is on electronics, keyboard and other instruments but the performance includes a variety of musicians, dancers, and visual projections. Of course, this album provides only the audio portion but it works very well on its own. It is a beautiful new age sounding composition and very different than the previous mentioned album. Lyricism and structure blends perfectly in the opening track. Readings from the poems of Jean Michel Maulpoix are interspersed throughout and sets the tone for the performances.

Radure 3: Oltreumano is attributed to “Various Artists” but I have included it here since the work is a multimedia project curated and compiled by Lucchi. Again this is only the audio portion although you can also download a series of videos related to the performance. Asides from Lucchi, the artists involved are Aaron Ximm, Urkuma, Steve Layton, Claudio Rocchi, and Alex Young. Each track has its own magic with most of the sounds being intense and dark. Ximm’s opening track. “Dukka” is complex and mesmerizing. Layton’s “Alberti” has a gritty urban feel while “Sky and Sand” harks back to the electronic experiments of the 60s. Marco’s contributions, “Aquarium” and “The Tide”, are quite haunting. The short films that accompany “The Tide” are included but I have not viewed them. The other tracks are all excellent and add to the magical soundscapes that makes this album. The actual performance must has been incredible but we will have to make do with this superlative audio document.

Ear and Tantra are available as full album zip or separate tracks in 128kbps MP3 while Radure 3’s tracks are in varying bitrates.

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I Found An- Insoluble, Indefinite - ear
Tantra à L’usage Des Anges
Radure 3: Oltreumano