Luca Curcio – La BOMBA

Luca Curcio first learned to play the trumpet because he wanted to join the band in his hometown in northern Italy. He later switched to drums before discovering the electric and double bass—the instruments he would go on to study, first at the Conservatorio G. Verdi in Turin and later at the Rytmisk Musikkonservatorium in Copenhagen. In 2022, he moved to Berlin, but has been commuting constantly between the German and Danish capitals ever since. These two cities are also the pan-European coordinates of his quintet: with him on bass and the Ukrainian Igor Osypov, who also lives in Berlin, on electric guitar; his Copenhagen-based compatriot Francesco Bigoni on tenor saxophone and the Berlin-based Dane Asger Uttrup Nissen on alto saxophone; plus the Copenhagen-based Norwegian Simon Olderskog Albertsen on drums. Together they play improvisational music that is firmly rooted in the here and now, and with its almost physical sounds, dense clusters of tones, and circling grooves, it ignites one sonic moment after another.