Main actual proyects
Luciana Morelli group
singer, composer, producer
2019*
Luciana Morelli: vocals and composition
Philipp Hillebrand: clarinets
Mauricio Silva Orendain: piano
Snejana Prodanova: double bass and backing vocals
Paulo Almeida: drums
"Words of the Wind" (habitable records, 2024)
ArgentJazz, AR: «Unique poems, born in different times and geographies, now made songs. Words of the wind that Luciana Morelli's music and expressiveness bring us with the forceful softness of a caress...».
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Laboratorium MF, PL: «Morelli has created a work that will surely interest both music and literature lovers. It's not just music - it's a story told with sounds».
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Twistedsould, UK: «…Morelli’s enchanting voice. Her voice and articulation of each word give off an energy different from the original poem, making each track her creation».
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Luciana Morelli has integrated with mastery and versatility her facets of performer, composer and arranger in her new album "Words of the Wind” (Habitable records, 2024). Poems by Anne Carson, Robin Myers, Emily Brontë and Alejandra Pizarnik find their musical expression in the singer's voice and in her compositions and arrangements for different instrumentations and ensembles. Delving into themes of nature, love, death, loneliness, identity, madness, desire, family, and memory, with influences ranging from Argentinian music, classic and jazz, Luciana blends storytelling, rich harmony, and a distinct palette of musical colors in a wide-reaching and dynamic picture of the human experience.
"Words of the Wind" Album Tour 2024/2025
25.10.24 Jazzclub Weinfelden, CH
23.11.24 Musikwohnhaus Basel, CH
29.11.24 Factory, Luzern, CH
08.05.25 Jazzport, Friedrichshafen, DE
09.05.25 Kunstwerk Ulm, DE
10.05.25 Jazz in der Mitte, Reutlingen, DE
12.05.25 Blue Note Dresden, DE
13.05.25 B-Flat, Berlin, DE
25.09.25 Jazz in Dornach, CH
​ALBUM OF THE WEEK - The listening guide - NQ Jazz, UK
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​ALBUM OF THE WEEK - Jazz am Sunntig - Radio Rabe, CH
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ALBUM OF THE MONTH October 2021 - Club del Disco, AR
“Lo abismal, el agua” (ears&eyes records, 2021)
Jazz' N' More, CH: **** «It is an illustrious and, above all, very capable international band that the Argentinian singer and composer Luciana Morelli has gathered around her for her new project». Steff Rohrbach
Lucid Culture, USA: «...her new album Lo Abismal, El Agua (...) is astonishingly melodic, brilliant and picturesque music: Morelli likes circular riffs that she can expand on, with occasional playful descents into chaos».​
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New York Daily, USA: «Luciana Morelli writes poetic, tautly imaginative jazz songs in Spanish and sings in a full, mature, expressive voice...».
These songs were written at the crossroads, at a point of no return, in a tide of change, in the search for the unexpected, between uncertainty and euphoria, in a process that led me to emigrate from Argentina to Switzerland (even without knowing it) and from which I continue to learn. Each song is, in a way, an episode of this story and a call to be like water so that, with resilience and a lot of love, we know how to confront ourselves with the abysmal of these times.
“Lo abismal, el agua” Album tour 2022/2023
17.02.22 Thelonious Club, Buenos Aires, AR
19.02.22 CC Nueva Uriarte, Buenos Aires,AR
22.09.22 Villa Irniger, Zürich, CH
23.09.22 Zum Eck, Basel, CH
24.09.22 Kult - X, Kreuzlingen, CH
23.10.22 Jazz á la Citè, Paris, FR
05.11.22 Jazzclub Weinfelden, CH
07.11.22 Jazzkongress, Freiburg, DE
11.01.23 Jazzclub Tübingen, DE
23.06.23 Literaturcafé, Biel, CH
07.07.23 Festival Bandstadt, Basel, CH
15.11.23 Lebewohlfabrik, Zürich, CH
12.12.23 Schall und Rauch. Basel, CH
Luciana Morelli: voice and composition
Philipp Hillebrand: clarinets
Mauricio Silva Orendain: piano
Sebastián de Urquiza: double bass and backing vocals
Paulo Almeida: drums
morelli / moser / neumann / zimmerlin
2023 *
Luciana Morelli: voice and concept
Andrea Neumann: inside piano and voice
Alfred Zimmerlin: cello and voice
Christian Moser: oud and voice
"Conflations" (Neue Numeral, 2024)
Conflations is the coming together of four generations of improvisers and an almost theatrical, sensory journey through different scenarios in which words and sounds combine to create a surrealistic collage that appeals to the listener's imagination.
The morelli/moser/neumann/zimmerlin ensemble experiments with text fragments by Robin Myers as material that interacts with the soundscapes they create.
Fragments arouse curiosity, stimulate imagination and draw the attention to what is not shown, what is "missing", what is not represented. They reveal perspectives and points of view that would not be offered if they were "complete". It opens up the expressive space for a multi-perspective view of things. The album will be released in 2024 on Neue Numeral.
«(...) We have been wondering around the rooms of the same house all this time. faced with the pieces of memories, impressions, fragments of thoughts, translated from text to sound, and back. Many times stoping in the middle. Merging disparate ideas into a single entity».
Fernando Manassero ​
Past proyects - selection
Luciana Morelli Quintet
singer, composer, producer
2012 - 2015 Buenos Aires, Argentina
Luciana Morelli: voice and composition Diego Uriarte: tenor saxophone
Martin Ameconi / Ernesto Amstein: piano
Santiago Lamisovski: double
Bass Guillermo Harriague: drums
"Mandala" (PAI records, 2014)
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Ámbito, AR: «There is a talented singer here who has what it takes to support this debut album. There are good musicians who provide an excellent framework. There are well-constructed songs and sublime moments in pieces like Shorter and Bridgewater's “Footprints”. And there is a career ahead for a woman who is still very young and certainly seems to have a lot to say...». Ricardo Saltón
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Clube de Jazz, BR: «Luciana Morelli: more than a revelation, a talent with the power to enchant with the jazz that flows from her interpretations». Wilson Garzon​​​​
Festivals: Música en Bares Notables de Buenos Aires 2015
Festival Internacional de Jazz de Buenos Aires 2015.
Jazz at the Movies
Audiovisual show of jazz and cinema
2015 - 2019 Buenos Aires, Argentina
Luciana Morelli: voice, idea, production and direction
Ernesto Amstein: piano and arrangements
Nacho Szulga: double bass
Pedro Ahets Etcheverry: drums
Jazz at the Movies had a weekly performance since 2016 in one of the most prestigious jazz clubs in the city of Buenos Aires, Bebop Club. In 2017 he participated in "Jazzología", a famous weekly cycle with more than 30 years of trajectory at the Centro Cultural General San Martín (Buenos Aires). In 2018 he won the contest "Música en Bares Notables de la ciudad de Buenos Aires". In December 2018, he toured the province of Buenos Aires where he performed at cultural centers in the cities of Rauch, Tandil and at the Teatro Español in the city of Azul. In 2019 he participated in the "Marathon of Music Clubs" (Buenos Aires) at Bebop Club. The show has featured special guests such as Mariano Loiácono (trumpet), Martín Sánchez (vibraphone), Andrés Hayes (saxophone), Malena Pichot (voice) from Argentina, Lukas Kohler (trumpet), Philipp Hillebrand (clarinet) from Switzerland and Kate Ortega (vibraphone) from Colombia.
Suyay
composer
2020 * - Buenos Aires, Argentina
Actrice: Agustina Groba
Original music: Luciana Morelli
Direction Assistance: Julia Odelli Craig
Dramaturgy and direction: Pilar Ruiz
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Theater play written by Pilar Ruiz, winner of the FAUNA Prize 2022 in the category “Theater”. It had a great reception from the audience and the press and participated of many festivals such as FIBA Buenos Aires International Festival (2023), FUA! MERCOSUR (2023), Monoblock II Festival and Teatro del Abasto.
LandScopes
sound installation by Marie-Louise Schneider and Luciana Morelli
2021 - Basel, Switzerland
Work developed as part of the project Ton Gondel 41 at the Musik-Akademie Basel. The installation proposes a journey to La Rioja and Schaffhausen through folklore songs that come from those regions in Argentina and Switzerland.
La gota cava la piedra (Vidala from La Rioja, Argentina)
Randen-Walzer (Waltz from Schaffhausen, Switzerland)
Duration: 7 min
Protect me from what I want
video performance
2021 - Basel, Switzerland
Perfirmers: Cristina Arcos Cano, Lea Sobbe, Snejana Prodanova, Daniel Somarooo and Luciana Morelli (idea and direction)
Coach: Alfred Zimmerlin
Video: Michael Chylewski
Assistance of video: Marius Cuendet
Recorded by Francesca Gaza and Raphael Rossé at the Jazzcampus, Basel, 2021.
Mixed by Francesca Gaza and Daniel Somaroo​​
Protect me from what I want
Jenny Holzer
Performance organized in four episodes that combines improvised and experimental music with videos to criticize contemporary society. Inspired by the thought of philosopher Byung Chul-Han.
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I: The expulsion of the different
II: Privacy policies
III: The rules or After “The story”.
IV: It's easier to imagine the end of the world than the end of capitalism
LISTEN
sound installation by Laura Sánchez and Luciana Morelli
2022, 2023 - Basel, Switzerland
LISTEN is an interactive sound installation that represents the city of Basel through sounds that were recorded in different neighborhoods by the artists. The visitors can choose which sounds to play and thus become the co-composers of an open work that will be different each time. Through this experience, the audience is invited to listen to the city in a different way.
It was premiered at the KHaus, Basel during the BScene Festival 2022. And it was presented for a second time at the SPIEL! Game Theory Congress organized by the Musik Akademie Basel in January 2023.