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Luca Benedetti

Brooklyn-based guitarist and composer Luca Benedetti creates evocative instrumental music that moves fluidly between jazz, Americana, blues, and global influences.

Born in Rome in 1971, Benedetti spent his childhood traveling the world as the son of an adventure-seeking father turned airline executive, living in places as varied as New York City, Ethiopia, Ghana, Kenya, Thailand, and Brazil. These early experiences—absorbing the rhythms, cultures, and landscapes of multiple continents—would come to shape the expansive sonic language that defines his singular work today.

Now with a longtime presence on New York City’s music scene, Benedetti has honed a distinctive guitar style that’s at once lyrical, melodic, atmospheric, and improvisational interplay that unfolds like cinematic travelogues

Slow Down For Turtles

By Luca Benedetti

Label: Flying Potato Records
Released: 2026
Track listing: Okapi; Con Calma; Slow Down For Turtles; Tick Bomb; Lady Manatee; Mongaup; Same Price; Sweet Saru; Wattle Strut; Knucklehead.

Luca Benedetti: Slow Down For Turtles

by Doug Collette
September 17, 2026

Guitarist/composer Luca Benedetti is emerging from the same hallowed Brooklyn community that has nurtured the alchemy of Medeski Martin & Wood as well as the chameleonic likes of his fretboard peer Will Bernard.  The winsomely titled Slow Down For Turtles, Benedetti's third album with bassist Tony Scherr and drummer Tony Mason, is an object ...