Lea Bertucci

Lea Bertucci – Of Shadow and Substance (2023)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/48 kHz | Time – 11:41 minutes | 121 MB | Genre: Experimental Electronic, Drone, Modern Classical
Studio Masters, Official Digital Download | Front Cover | © Cibachrome Editions

Acclaimed NYC experimental musician Lea Bertucci explores dissonance, drone and dynamics with two new longform compositions for strings, electronics, harp and percussion on “Of Shadow and Substance”.

“More so than any of my other music, I don’t feel that these works belong to me,” Bertucci writes. “There is something about them that is beyond myself as an individual and provides, if anything, a brief glimpse into what it is to be human in what feels like these waning days of the Anthropocene.” Working with instrumentation in the ancient “just intonation” tuning structure (in which notes are spaced exclusively at whole-number ratios of frequencies) and a textural approach to composition, even commonly-heard timbres such as cello, harp and double bass in Of Shadow and Substance are afforded a sense of deep, ancestral knowing.

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Lea Bertucci & Sonoscopia – Lea Bertucci & Sonoscopia (2020)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/48 kHz | Time – 26:07 minutes | 282 MB | Genre: Electronic
Studio Masters, Official Digital Download | Front Cover | © Sonoscopia

In the middle of a two-week residency at Sonoscopia by American saxophonist and composer Lea Bertucci, the first national state of emergency is declared. Circulation restrictions, canceled concerts and flights, and above all, an awakening to a completely new reality. In an almost apocalyptic scenario, where uncertainty and fear were complemented with some fascination for living in a science fiction scenario, the first days of isolation were spent recording and rethinking a large part of our lives as musicians. These recordings, the result of that initial confinement, carry that weight with them. To the instrumental density a time diluted from the past is added, which slightly fluctuates over the uncertainties of the future.

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Lea Bertucci – Acoustic Shadows (2020)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/44,1 kHz | Time – 42:25 minutes | 392 MB | Genre: Electronic
Studio Masters, Official Digital Download | Front Cover | © SA Recordings

On April 15th SA Recordings present a new LP and sample library from the acclaimed New York composer, performer and sound designer Lea Bertucci. A work of three interlinked incarnations, ‘Acoustic Shadows’ began as an event, which then became an album and has inspired a sample library for other musicians.

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