Intra-

To all those moments when we feel everything is clear and clean, and all realities exist at once. The unknown is your ally!

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Album Credits

Luca Formentini: all sounds, voice and lyrics on Traced and Outs.
Molecules: extract from the recording of Dr Sidney Cohen and of an unnamed American housewife who volunteered for an experiment at the Veteran’s Administration Hospital in Los Angeles in 1956. Music by Luca Formentini.

Composed, performed, recorded and mixed by Luca Formentini in 2020 and 2021.
Additional reel-to-reel reprocessing by Stefano Castagna @ Ritmo&Blu recording studio, Pozzolengo
Mastered by Taylor Dupree @ 12K Mastering, Los Angeles

released November 7, 2021

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Reviews

“You could play it in an infinite repeat loop and never grow tired of the journey. Each of the pieces seems almost like we are looking at infinite tiny details of nature through a macro lens, each piece detailing a different part, respecting all the others.”
Peter Thelen, Exposé

“In a high sonic style they access mysterious influences to form a singular stillness outside the neutrality of basic Ambient Music. Taking the listeners as well as the players into its confidence, this music seems formed over a night of balmy dreams and friendly visitations – as it waits patiently”
Chuck Van Zyl – Star’s End

“Luca Formentini axe son travail sur l’improvisation et le mélange de textures, guitare et sonorités électroniques flirtant les unes avec les autres, donnant naissance à des espaces aux variations subtiles.
Intra- est une accumulation de micro-éléments naviguant entre les vides et les pleins, ondes gravitationnelles aux trajectoires imprévisibles, oscillant autour de systèmes solaires à la beauté crépusculaire.
L’utilisation de voix renforce le mystère, injectant une viscéralité charnelle à la puissance cinématographique hypnotique.
Tout en nuances et en tranquilité aérienne, l’ambient de Luca Formentini flotte dans un cosmos chargé de flux immatériels, à la densité transparente. Superbe.”
Roland Torres su Silence and Sound 2021

“Un musicista che da sempre ha sfidato le categorizzazioni rigide, muovendosi tra improvvisazione pura, antichi e mai sopiti amori «ambient» e sperimentazione elettronica.”
Claudio Andrizzi su Bresciaoggi, 2021

“Intra è questo, è un profondo confronto nel divenire di ciò che potremmo e vorremmo, è un fantastico viaggio nell’incredulità di essere altro. Intra è straordinario percorso sonico in uno spazio-tempo dominato dalla gradualità dell’apparire e svanire.”
Mirco Salvadori su Rockerilla Ottobre 2021

“Affina il suo peculiare uso della sei corde prosciugandolo e rendendolo più preciso ed essenziale; al contempo alte componenti si fanno largo ritmi rarefatti, armoniose volute e oscillazioni siderali…”
Giuseppe Aiello su Blow Up, 2021