LUCA CURCIO

Luca Curcio is a bass player, composer, producer and improviser based between Berlin and Copenhagen.

Luca is an eclectic and curious musician, the list of his influences range from Mingus and Haden to Gnawa music, passing by Cachao Lopez, A Tribe Called Quest and Flying Lotus.

He is part of a broad, experimental group of artists who began to define their hybrid aesthetic as Post-Beat, a musical language based on the depth of the Black American Music tradition, sampling culture and improvisation.

Luca studied at the Conservatory of Torino before relocating to Denmark in 2015 to attend the Rhythmic Music Conservatory of Copenhagen. He studied, among others, with Petter Eldh, Peter Evans, William Parker, Ben Allison, Tyshawn Sorey and Thomas Morgan. Luca performed all over Europe, both as sideman and as a leader of his own projects.

He worked with key figures of the international Jazz and creative scene such as Andy Sheppard, Jon Balke, Kit Downes, Wanja Slavin, William Parker, Gavino Murgia, Kresten Osgood, Rolf Kuhn, Alessandro Lanzoni, Fabrizio Bosso, Gianluca Petrella, and many more.

The latest release of Mané Fernandes’ ENTER THE sQUIGG (Clean Feed 2022) features him as co-producer, showcasing his rock-carved bass sound, his fresh approach to music production and his rhythmic language, based on the exploration of micro-rhythms and poly-rhyhtms.