(Quadrilogia dell'Assenza, vol.IV)
Label / Code: Flavour Sperimentale FLV.SP/0015/25 – Bandcamp (October 20, 2025)
1. Odissea Interstellare dell'Aringa Rossa – 32:50 (Cruciani)
Line-up:
Nicola Cruciani – synthesizers, programming
Total length: 33 minutes
Genre: Ambient, experimental ambient
Recording: Home recording
Mixing/Mastering: Nicola Cruciani
Formats available: Digital
Artwork: Nicola Cruciani
(Quadrilogia dell'Assenza, vol.III)
Label / Code: Flavour Sperimentale FLV.SP/0014/25 – Bandcamp (October 20, 2025)
1. Onirica – 14:09 (Cruciani)
2. Viaje Onirico Mexicano – 9 :27 (Cruciani)
Line-up:
Nicola Cruciani – synthesizers, programming
Total length: 24 minutes
Genre: Ambient, experimental ambient
Recording: Home recording
Mixing/Mastering: Nicola Cruciani
Formats available: Digital
Artwork: Nicola Cruciani
(Quadrilogia dell'Assenza, vol.II)
Label / Code: Flavour Sperimentale FLV.SP/0012/25 – Bandcamp (October 20, 2025)
1. Didascalia per un gesto – 24:29 (Cruciani)
Line-up:
Nicola Cruciani – synthesizers, programming
Total length: 25 minutes
Genre: Ambient, experimental ambient
Recording: Home recording
Mixing/Mastering: Nicola Cruciani
Formats available: Digital
Artwork: Nicola Cruciani
(Quadrilogia dell'Assenza, vol.I)
Label / Code: Flavour Sperimentale FLV.SP/0011/25 – Bandcamp (October 20, 2025)
1. #I – 7:03 (Cruciani)
2. #II – 11.19 (Cruciani)
3. #III– 2:55 (Cruciani)
Line-up:
Nicola Cruciani – synthesizers, programming
Total length: 21 minutes
Genre: Ambient, experimental ambient
Recording: Home recording
Mixing/Mastering: Nicola Cruciani
Formats available: Digital
Artwork: Nicola Cruciani
Label / Code: Flavour Sperimentale FLV.SP/0010/25 – Bandcamp (June 8, 2025)
1. The Curtain – 3:31 (Cruciani)
2. Morning Object – 3:33 (Cruciani, Lardo)
3. A Surreal Painting – 3:06 (Cruciani)
4. Hard Muzzle – 4:02 (Cruciani, Lardo)
5. Black Blue – 5:43 (Cruciani)
6. Awakening – 3:07 (Cruciani)
7.
Crystal – 17:31
(Cruciani)
Line-up:
Nicola
Cruciani – vocals, electric guitar, bass, keyboards, programming
Vincenzo
Lardo – bass, acoustic guitars, keyboards, programming
Total length: 40 minutes
Genre: Ambient, art rock, experimental ambient
Recording: Home recording
Mixing/Mastering: Nicola Cruciani
Formats available: Digital
Artwork: Nicola Cruciani
Additional recording and release notes:
Recorded
between March 2020 and October 2024.
Label /
Code: Flavour Sperimentale FLV.SP/0009/24 – Bandcamp
(November 29, 2024)
1. Sunset – 4:15 (Cruciani, Lardo)
2. Elegy – 7:11 (Cruciani)
3. Dust – 3:51 (Cruciani,
Giuseppini, Lardo)
4. Stones – 4:40 (Cruciani, Lardo)
5. Rain – 8:07 (Cruciani)
Line-up:
Nicola Cruciani – vocals, guitars, bass, keyboards,
programming
Giorgio Giuseppini – keyboards
Vincenzo Lardo – backing vocals, bass, guitars, keyboards,
programming
Total length: 28 minutes
Genre: Ambient, art rock, emotional electronica
Recording: Home recording
Mixing/Mastering: Nicola Cruciani
Formats available: Digital
Artwork: Nicola Cruciani
Additional recording and release notes:
Recorded
between January 2021 and January 2023.
Conceived
as a “requiem rock” work dedicated to Livio Cruciani.
Label / Code: Flavour Sperimentale FLV.SP/0003/24 – Bandcamp (September 21, 2024)
How Does It Make You Feel? – 03:19 (AI prompt)
Pills – 02:50 (AI prompt)
Trapped Child – 03:15 (AI prompt)
I Hate Photographs – 02:43 (AI prompt)
Something Left Unsaid – 03:34 (AI prompt)
You Were AI Here – 03:44 (AI prompt)
Lost And Found – 02:28 (AI prompt)
Fade – 03:18 (AI prompt)
Not To B Concise – 12:37 (AI prompt)
Line-up: Flavour Sperimentale – AI-generated compositions, programming
Total length: approx. 46 minutes
Genre: Electro space rock, experimental ambient
Recording: AI-generated prompts (home setup)
Mixing/Mastering: Nicola Cruciani
Formats available: Digital
Artwork: Nicola Cruciani
Notes: Third and concluding chapter of the Synthetic Trilogy. This album expands the AI-driven experiment into more emotional and conceptual territories, juxtaposing short synthetic sketches with the extended piece Not To B Concise. It closes the trilogy’s exploration of depersonalization and automation in music creation.
Label / Code: Flavour Sperimentale FLV.SP/0002/24 – Bandcamp (August 5, 2024)
Through The Black Mirror – 02:56 (AI prompt)
Sequence 1 – The Synthetic Whisper – 04:00 (AI prompt)
Sequence 2 – Oscillations in Code – 01:57 (AI prompt)
Sequence 3 – Fragmented Memories – 03:36 (AI prompt)
Sequence 4 – Artificial Dawn – 04:00 (AI prompt)
Sequence 5 – Echoes Of The Machine – 04:00 (AI prompt)
Reflections Beyond The Black Mirror – 04:00 (AI prompt)
Line-up: Flavour Sperimentale – AI-generated compositions, programming
Total length: approx. 25 minutes
Genre: Electro space rock, experimental ambient
Recording: AI-generated prompts (home setup)
Mixing/Mastering: Nicola Cruciani
Formats available: Digital
Artwork: Nicola Cruciani
Notes: Second chapter of the Synthetic Trilogy, continuing the exploration of AI-generated music. The album emphasizes depersonalization and automation, presenting sequences and reflections that blur the line between human creativity and machine logic.
Label / Code: Flavour Sperimentale FLV.SP/0001/24 – Bandcamp (April 6, 2024)
Space Rock Part 1 – 02:45 (AI prompt)
Step by Step – 02:26 (AI prompt)
Space Rock Part 2 – 02:36 (AI prompt)
Shining Stars – 02:28 (AI prompt)
Deep Vibration – 04:00 (AI prompt)
Space Rock Part 3 – 03:59 (AI prompt)
Children of the Universe – 04:00 (AI prompt)
Line-up: Flavour Sperimentale – AI-generated compositions, programming
Total length: approx. 23 minutes
Genre: Electro space rock, 1980s-inspired
Recording: AI-generated prompts (home setup)
Mixing/Mastering: Nicola Cruciani
Digital Artwork: Nicola Cruciani
Notes: First chapter of the Synthetic Trilogy, a series of three albums entirely generated through AI prompts. The project emphasizes depersonalization and automation replacing the traditional creative process.
Label / Code: Flavour Sperimentale FLV/0003/23 – Bandcamp (November 29, 2023)
1. I Hate Photographs – 3:16 (Cruciani)
2. How Does It Make You Feel? – 3:47 (Cruciani)
3.
Orange – 4:49 (Cruciani,
Feliciotti, Francia)
4.
QCDF – 5:33 (Cruciani,
Feliciotti, Francia)
5.
Dolce Assenza – 5:43
(Cruciani, Feliciotti, Francia)
Line-up:
Nicola
Cruciani – vocals, guitars
Paolo
Feliciotti – bass, vocals
Francesco
Francia – drums, vocals
Peter Gabrielli – guitars
Vincenzo Lardo – programming, bass, keyboards
Alessandro Regno – keyboards
Total length: 23 minutes
Genre: Psychedelia, art rock, live performance
Recording: Live recording
Mixing/Mastering: Nicola Cruciani, Vincenzo Lardo
Formats available: Digital
Artwork: Nicola Cruciani
Additional recording and release notes:
Recorded live at Water Fest II, Giardini di
Palazzo Cesi, Acquasparta (Italy), on 26 August 2023.
Captures
an unedited live performance, preserving the original concert atmosphere and
arrangements.
Overdubs
were added by Vincenzo Lardo in October 2023.
All
tracks are sourced directly from the festival setlist performed on the day of
the event.
YOU WERE ALL HERE
Label / Code: Flavour Sperimentale FLV.SP/0008/21 – Bandcamp (September 21, 2021)
Co-releases: Attenuation Circuit (Germany) – Bandcamp (November 10, 2021)
Otcrah
Records (Mexico) – (September 21, 2021)
Camembert
Électrique (France) – (September 21, 2021)
Completely
Gone Recordings (USA) CGR-461 – Bandcamp (September 12, 2022)
1. How Does It Make You Feel? – 4:03 (Cruciani)
2.
Pills – 3:36 (Cruciani,
Lardo)
3.
I Hate Photographs – 3:27
(Cruciani)
4. Trapped Child – 5:44 (Cruciani, Lardo)
5. Something Left Unsaid – 3:46 (Cruciani, Lardo)
6. You Were All Here – 3:34 (Cruciani, Lardo)
7.
Lost and Found – 7:53
(Cruciani)
Line-up:
Nicola Cruciani – vocals, guitars, bass, programming,
keyboards
Chiara Della Monica – vocals
Simona Della Monica – vocals
Giuseppe Esposito – saxophone
Vincenzo Lardo – vocals, guitars, bass, programming,
keyboards
Rossella Lauriello – vocals
Francesca Longo – vocals
Total length: 32 minutes
Genre: Psychedelia, electronic, art rock
Recording: Home recording
Mixing/Mastering:
Nicola Cruciani, Vincenzo Lardo
Formats available: Digital
Artwork: Nicola Cruciani
Additional recording and release notes:
Recorded
between August 2019 and June 2021.
Issued
in multiple editions through various international co‑releases, including
Attenuation Circuit (Germany), Otcrah Records (Mexico), Camembert Électrique
(France), and Completely Gone Recordings (USA).
All
versions preserve the original mixes from the recording sessions, with no
overdubs or alterations introduced in later editions.
Label / Code: Flavour Sperimentale FLV.SP/0007/21 – Bandcamp (July
6, 2021)
1. Prelude – 1:29 (Armadoro)
2. Studio n.1 – 2:50 (Armadoro)
3. Studio n.2 – 1:33 (Armadoro)
4. Studio n.3 – 1:52 (Armadoro)
5. Studio n.4 – 2:07 (Armadoro)
6. Studio n.5 – 1:58 (Armadoro)
7. Studio n.6 – 1:35 (Armadoro)
8. Studio n.7 – 1:42 (Armadoro)
9. Studio n.8 – 1:23 (Armadoro)
10. Studio n.9 – 1:40 (Armadoro)
11. Studio n.10 – 2:16 (Armadoro)
12. Studio n.11 – 1:15 (Armadoro)
13. Studio n.12 – 2:06 (Armadoro)
14. Il Temporale –
1:45 (Armadoro)
Line-up:
Giovanni Armadoro – piano, programming
Total length: 26 minutes
Genre: Minimalism, piano music
Recording: Home recording
Mixing/Mastering: Nicola Cruciani
Formats available: Digital
Artwork: Nicola Cruciani
Additional
recording and release notes:
Recorded
in May and June 2021.
Label / Code: Flavour Sperimentale FLV/0002/19 – Bandcamp (June 21, 2019)
Reissue: Completely Gone Recordings (USA) – Bandcamp July 24, 2022)
1. A Braccia Aperte, Part 1 – 2:11
(Armadoro)
2. Orange (Studio Version) – 2:48
(Cruciani, Feliciotti)
3. A Braccia Aperte, Part 2 – 3:08
(Armadoro)
4. Dolce Assenza 23 – 3:59
(Cruciani, Francia, Feliciotti)
5. Improvvisazione 1 – 7:44
(Armadoro, Cruciani, Feliciotti, Francia)
6. Improvvisazione 5 – 14:29
(Armadoro, Cruciani, Feliciotti, Francia)
Line-up:
Giovanni
Armadoro – keyboards
Nicola
Cruciani – vocals, guitars, bass, programming, keyboards
Paolo
Feliciotti – bass, vocals
Francesco
Francia – vocals, drums
Giorgio
Giuseppini – keyboards, programming
Vincenzo Lardo – programming
Total length: 34 minutes
Genre: Progressive rock, minimalism, psychedelia
Recording: Home recording
Mixing/Mastering:
Nicola Cruciani, Vincenzo Lardo, Giorgio Giuseppini
Formats available: Digital
Artwork: Nicola Cruciani
Additional recording and release notes:
Tracks
1–3 were recorded in studio between March and April 2019.
Track 2
was recorded in January 2019.
Tracks
5–6 were captured during rehearsal sessions in March 2019.
Track 4
was recorded in May 2023 and included in the definitive 2023 edition.
Several
versions of the album exist, differing in both track selection and cover
artwork.
Label / Code: Flavour Sperimentale 240FLV/0001/17 – Bandcamp (October 31, 2017)
Co-release: 240bpm Sound & Visions – Bandcamp (October 31, 2017)
1.
Above The Clouds – 2:45 (Cruciani, Lardo)
2. Aer – 4:30 (Lardo)
3. Evolution – 2:10 (Lardo)
4.
Earth, Mother Earth – 3:51 (Cruciani, Lardo)
5. In No Man’s Land – 3:54
(Cruciani, Lardo)
6.
Always Happens When It Rains – 4:48 (Lardo)
7. Aphrodite Junction – 3:49
(Lardo)
8. Waves – 2:23 (Feliciotti,
Grieco, Lardo)
9.
Breathing – 3:15 (Cruciani)
10. Glare and Shine – 4:50 (Lardo)
11. King of Nothing – 5:04 (Lardo)
12. 5th Element – 5:16 (Cruciani, Lardo)
13. Breathing Reprise – 2:13 (Cruciani, Lardo)
14. Tighter The Threshold,
Broad Is The Way
– 1:12 (Cruciani, Lardo)
15. Re-Union – 3:39 (Cruciani,
Lardo)
Line-up:
Regina
Barone – backing vocals
Nicola
Cruciani – vocals, guitars
Francesco
Francia – spoken word
Marco
Grieco – spoken word
Vincenzo Lardo – vocals, guitars, bass, keyboards,
programming
Volkan
Meydan – baglama
Massimiliano
Sini – spoken word
Total length: 53 minutes
Genre: Psychedelic rock, psychedelic pop
Recording: Home recording
Mixing/Mastering: Vincenzo Lardo
Formats available: Digital
Artwork: Vincenzo Lardo
Additional recording and release notes:
Recorded
between February 2016 and August 2017 in Salerno and Acquasparta, Italy.
Conceived
as a concept album, with a continuous thematic and narrative thread across its
tracks.
The
music from the album was adapted into a stage musical produced by the student
collective of Liceo Scientifico Statale “Francesco Severi” in Salerno.
The
theatrical performance took place on 18 May 2018 at the Liceo Scientifico
Francesco Severi Auditorium in Salerno, directed by Vincenzo Lardo.
Label / Code: Flavour Sperimentale FLV.SP/0005/10 – Bandcamp (October 31, 2010)
Reissue:
Camembert Électrique (2020)
1.
Moo Suite – 16:27 (Cruciani)
2.
Being There – 1:52 (Cruciani)
3. Mild Lazy Land - 4:07 (Cruciani)
4.
Cooking Breakfast for the Queen – 13:48 (Cruciani)
Line-up:
Nicola
Cruciani – vocals, guitars, bass, programming, keyboards, loops, sound effects
Giorgio
Giuseppini – keyboards, programming
Total length: 37 minutes
Genre: Psychedelic rock, experimental
Recording: Home recording
Mixing/Mastering:
Nicola Cruciani
Formats
available: Digital
Artwork:
Nicola Cruciani
Additional recording and release notes:
Recorded
between January and September 2010.
Multiple
versions of the album exist, featuring variations in track selection, track
titles, and cover artwork.
The
definitive version was issued in January 2024.
This
album is part of the so‑called Pink Trilogy (also referred to as the Experimental
Trilogy).