PIER BUCCI - Familia

A dichotomy needs to be identified: Chile, Berlin on one

hand a millennia-old civilization, an immense continent, a boundless culture but

distant and decentralized, on the other a city that is now the world capital of club

music, the hub and beacon of a scene that has given countless artists the

possibility of having a place to freely unleash one's creativity. In

these differences, in these distances, we can frame that Chilean

wave that sees Ricardo Villalobos, Senor Coconut, Luciano and, indeed, Pier

Bucci as its forefathers, and which found in Berlin fertile ground on which

to put down roots.

Pier Bucci is not a new name, but comes from a long

apprenticeship that saw him truly break through only with the project

Lucien-e-Luciano (on Peacefrog) after various productions under different

aliases. Now he's tackling his first full album: will it confirm or

contradict the class already heard on vinyl? We'll see.

Bucci's style

is mature and personal, blending together a series of influences clearly

traceable among the tracks of this "Familia": from the minimal school of

Plastikman to sounds borrowed from Chicago and Detroit, passing through ambient

and a skillful use of vintage sounds, plus an ever-present influence from

four robots from Dusseldorf.

Tracks like “Tita” catapult us into

settings that blend measured, geometric music with natural sounds and

flashes of synthesizer, sketching out excursions into a more relaxed and

expansive mood, stretching out time and sound to make its minimal, repetitive rhythm

almost endless.

“Towes”, “Siberian” and “Pipostrack”, on the other hand, leave us

suspended between the typical sounds of Detroit and Chicago and a

personal, modern, dreamlike style of composition that leaves plenty of room for feeling without

weighing the sound down in the slightest, instead making it joyful and enjoyable.

“The

“R-8 Moog”, meanwhile, is an all-too-obvious tribute to the father of all

synthesizers, to that unmistakable sound which Bucci filters

through his own style, blending it with female vocal parts that

create an amalgam of minimalism and ambient forays. The result is

spectacular in its delicacy and quality.

But it's in the four central tracks that

Bucci's style reaches its peak: from the rhythmic and vocal minimalism

stuffed with predatory synthesizers on “L Nuit” to the clearly

techno-oriented experiments of “Hay Consuelo” and “Jess”. A journey that culminates in

“Cosmic”, where Bucci allows himself some license and delivers a track with just the right

heaviness, always measured yet incisive, in which speed, synthesizers running

wild, South American vocals and a mesmerizing rhythm section reign

unchallenged.

We started out asking whether this record is a

confirmation or a denial; we end up saying that Bucci has given us a

confirmation made up of ten stunning tracks.

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30/04/2026