L.U.C.A. - I Semi Del Futuro

L.u.c.a. is Francesco De Bellis aka Francisco. Years ago he started
putting together some selections for a friend of his: Luca. The
intention was to pick songs to be played during car rides, and like any
other kind of ritual, this too would come with strict rules. You’d have
to go throw the whole selection of 100 tracks without skipping, because
every single one was important. Be it the sounds, the arrangement or its
creativity, each track was there for a very specific reasons. It
quickly became a monthly event which for several years evolved in a deep
musical research without genre boundaries: Disco and psychedelic,
soundtracks, library music, exotica, electronic and dance music, italo,
new wave, pop or prog. Tracks of each and any historical period and
provenance had been featured in this special compilations.
But it wasn’t always that easy to come up with the right piece and
eventually Francesco started producing a few on his own to fill in the
gaps. After six tracks, it was quite clear that there was a project
developing, one in which he could finally experiment freely, leaving
behind the rules that often come with dance tracks. Of course, no name
could have been better than the one of his friend that had inspired
everything? And so L.u.c.a was born.
Now, while preserving the same mind set, L.u.c.a is back with an album
that embraces a new-hippie vibe, strongly pervaded by a mystical
naturalism. This is a whole new universe in the making, where rumbling
magmatic atmospheres evolve gradually in a journey through an idealist
new world, celestial interludes revealing a full take over of nature,
with a pervasive library feel that dates back to the great Italian
masters, carrying on Edizioni Mondo’s legacy.