Michele Ducci "Nuba Live Tape" Digital album Mono-242
Released January 24,2025
'Even Before' Video by Michele Ducci and Letizia Mandolesi
'It's Hard to Be Easily Loved' video by Michele Ducci and Letiia Mandolesi
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... more
credits
released January 24, 2025
Michele Ducci - vocals and all instruments
Letizia Mandolesi - backing vocals, synths
Music and Lyrics by Michele Ducci
Recorded between L’Amor Mio Non Muore Studio and Ondeleone Studio
Tracks
- Even before
- By your side
- Lowhowl
- Feelings (Alt. Version)
- River (Alt. Version)
- It's hard to ... loved
- Hic (Alt. Version)