“NUBA Live Tape” the new album by Michele Ducci.
Former M+A and Santii member Michele Ducci, who released his debut solo album, SIVE, in June 2024, returns with his latest work, NUBA Live Tape. As the name suggests, the album was recorded live to tape in the studio.
The album contains three re-imagined versions of tracks from SIVE, along with four new tracks. In HIC, the percussive, ragged beat poetry of the original is transformed into a movingly mournful piano ballad, while new songs such as Even Before and It’s Hard to be Easily Loved range from bouncy, summery pop to languid autumnal ballad. Ducci’s soft, warm vocals are beautifully harmonized and accented by Letizia Mandolesi’s bright backing vocals.
About the album, Ducci says, “NUBA live tape was born between the release of SIVE and the setting up of the live performances. I was trying a lot of new songs. I went to record the whole set and found myself with something that seemed like a beautiful bridge between SIVE and other new music. I tried some tape solutions and found some ways that I liked in terms of an essential experimentation: getting to a little light of essentiality without more predicates. Nuba is my cat’s name. It’s a record I made to not be afraid anymore. I was very scared of the ‘after’ SIVE. Instead of being devoured by fear, I relied, again, on music.
It was all recorded in 3 days between L’Amor Mio Non Muore Studio and Ondeleone Studio. As for SIVE, it is a policy and an ethic to be committed not so much in what you say, but in what and how you do. It’s the method that makes the politician. In my case, do everything that is not done in the mainstream and even in his brother alternative: don’t use useless budgets, don’t take ages, find escapes. Art can no longer think of producing without coming to terms with its horizon: the migrant.”
Michele Ducci was the ‘M’ in the electro-pop duo ‘M+A’, who released two albums on Monotreme Records, the second of which, ‘These Days’, earned the band a place in The Guardian’s ‘best new bands of 2014’ list and saw them perform live on the Pyramid Stage at Glastonbury and at the Venice Biennale.
The duo then formed a new project, Santii, which involved several Hip Hop artists including Rejjie Snow, Mick Jenkins and Music Producer Supah Mario (Drake, Young Thug), releasing two EPs on Italian label Sugar Records before going their separate ways.
Credits:
Michele Ducci – vocals and all instruments
Letizia Mandolesi – backing vocals and synths
Music and Lyrics by Michele Ducci
Recorded between L’Amor Mio Non Muore Studio and Ondeleone Studio
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