Exclusive premiere of ‘All of a Sudden’ and ‘Distant Waves’ by Pulsar, recorded at Sintesi Festival.

Pulsar is the audiovisual project of the electronic musician and drummer Leonardo Pucci. His electro-ambient compositions made of synth, piano and drums are a profound inner journey through the listener’s physical and mental space.

According to the Italian composer, based in Foligno: “The album is called ‘Nebula,’ and it was written and recorded between March 2020 and June 2021 during the period of lockdown, while we all felt lost, floating beings in limbo. The writing for this album was inspired by these sensations, and I wanted to describe them through a journey inside a nebula. Initially overwhelmed by the beauty of the giant molecular cloud and its cosmic elements, your thoughts move to something more familiar, the Earth. Through primordial memories, the waves, the clouds, the wind, you realize that there is nothing more beautiful than our planet, and that is why we must respect and preserve it“.

‘Nebula’ is a record characterized by a strong duality, starting from its title with a double meaning, relative to both that of nebula and that of cloud: the first three pieces in the tracklist, with a more electronic imprinting, are related to Space, while the next five were created starting mainly from acoustic instruments and a more melodic approach, placing themselves in proximity to an imaginary connected to the Earth.

<a href="https://leopulsar.bandcamp.com/album/nebula">Nebula by Pulsar</a>

Former drummer of Espada and Danny Mellow, as well as one of the founders of the Holydays Festival, Pucci started his solo project Pulsar in 2015, when he developed his passion for electronic music and synths, as well as for a certain type of sound language similar to names such as Ólafur Arnalds, Nils Frahm and Rival Consoles. Nebula follows the more rhythmic debut album Empty – released at the end of 2018, always by the independent label Rous Records, managed by a collective of musicians that includes Pucci himself – and presents itself as a more thoughtful and at the same time softer, lighter and more enveloping work, thanks to live experiences and the use of the acoustic piano that pushes everything in a modern classical direction. This time all the tracks were recorded with real instruments and effects, gravitating with a “human” sound around the electro-ambient satellite but also floating on psychedelia and Kosmische Musik, progressive and free jazz influences. “I have always liked to think of music as a means of communicating what otherwise I would not be able to express with words. My records are the transposition of my sensations into music, as if they were the soundtrack of what goes through my head.”

Enjoy the two tracks performed and recorded at Sintesi Festival on April 8th 2022. Pulsar live with his band for the release show of his album ‘Nebula’ at Spazio Zut, Foligno. Band consist of Leonardo Pucci (piano and synthetizers), Laura Agnusdei (sax), Rocco Zulevi (guitar), Lorenzo Chirico (bass).