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Luca Curcio: Fisk

By Ludovico Granvassu
November 9, 2025
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You know you're in for a good day when extraordinary music lands in your headphones completely out of the blue. That's how I stumbled upon the remarkable debut album by bassist Luca Curcio, Bomba (Boomslang Records), through a chain of insignificant coincidences.

What struck me most is the ease with which his Italo-Scandinavian quintet—Erik Kimestad (trumpet), Sölvi Kolbeinsson (alto saxophone), Francesco Bigoni (tenor saxophone), and Simon Olderskog Albertsen (drums)—manages to sound both deeply rooted in the tradition and strikingly fresh. There's a primal rhythmic drive at its core, later refracted through post-production wizardry that reimagines the horn lines via inventive sampling.

Here's a taste of their studio magic: "Fisk."

Contact Ludovico Granvassu on All About Jazz.
I'm the Editor-in-Chief of All About Jazz Italia, host of Mondo Jazz on Radio Free Brooklyn and was once visited by Frank Zappa's ghost.... he was funny too.

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