Biography
Composer and sound artist Luca Formentini constructs atmospheric aural landscapes from guitar, strings, homemade instruments fashioned from wood, metal, and electronics, along with voice and field recordings. While pursuing multiple collaborations and side projects, his solo output encompasses the 2003 debut Subterraneans and 2018’s Scintilla, his third full-length release.
Born in Brescia, Italy in 1968, Formentini began piano studies at age ten before switching at fourteen to guitar, the instrument that would define his path. At that same age he formed his first group, Modus Vivendi, committing exclusively to original material and sustaining that focus through subsequent bands whose members included Francesco Renga and composer/arranger Cristian Piccinelli. By the late ’90s he had shifted attention to solo work. His debut arrived in 2003 as the hour-plus Subterraneans on Auditorium, comprising sixteen varied vignettes. Tacet, issued in 2007 on Extreme, again merged disparate genre influences and moods. During this period he toured portions of Europe, the U.S., and Japan while collaborating with artists such as Markus Stockhausen, Jean-François Zygel, Holger Czukay, and Steve Jansen.
In 2011 he launched the improvisational duo Flos alongside Stefano Castagna and devoted additional time to refining his skills as a winemaker. Formentini reemerged in 2018 with the third solo album Scintilla, released jointly on Ritmo&Blu and Audiobulb Records.
Born in Brescia, Italy in 1968, Formentini began piano studies at age ten before switching at fourteen to guitar, the instrument that would define his path. At that same age he formed his first group, Modus Vivendi, committing exclusively to original material and sustaining that focus through subsequent bands whose members included Francesco Renga and composer/arranger Cristian Piccinelli. By the late ’90s he had shifted attention to solo work. His debut arrived in 2003 as the hour-plus Subterraneans on Auditorium, comprising sixteen varied vignettes. Tacet, issued in 2007 on Extreme, again merged disparate genre influences and moods. During this period he toured portions of Europe, the U.S., and Japan while collaborating with artists such as Markus Stockhausen, Jean-François Zygel, Holger Czukay, and Steve Jansen.
In 2011 he launched the improvisational duo Flos alongside Stefano Castagna and devoted additional time to refining his skills as a winemaker. Formentini reemerged in 2018 with the third solo album Scintilla, released jointly on Ritmo&Blu and Audiobulb Records.
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