Luca Ferrari (writer)
Luca Ferrari (Cremona, 6-4-1963) is an Italian underground writer.
He wrote books about folk and rock musicians as Third Ear Band, Pink Floyd, Robyn Hitchcock, Captain Beefheart, Tim Buckley, Syd Barrett for the main Italian home publishing, writing articles and reviews for Italian magazines such as Ciao 2001, Vinile, Buscadero, and Rockerilla. He met Syd Barrett in 1986 and contributed to the reunion of the Third Ear Band during the 1980s.
Having run Italian fanzines about Pink Floyd and Syd Barrett since 1979, he worked together with Ivor Trueman (who was running the fanzines The Amazing Pudding and Opel) about a petition in order to allow the release of the album Opel.
His book Tatuato sul Muro: L'enigma di Syd Barrett, published in January 1986, sold well in Italy and was worldwide the first biographical book about the controversial, and at the time even more enigmatic, figure of Syd Barrett.[1]
In 1993 he did contribute with an essay to the Captain Beefheeart (Don Van Vliet) catalogue titled Stand up to be discontinued. The art of Don Van Vliet (Cantz edition) and in 2011 he did an expert advice to the book titled Barrett (Essential Works Limited, London 2012), edited by Russell Beecher and Will Shutes.
His book about Italian folk music titled Folk Geneticamente Modificato (2003) is one of the few contributions ever published in Italy.
In 2015 he has published for Gonzo Multimedia Out of Nowhere, the first biography on English jazz piano player Mike Taylor, drowned in 1969 at 30 in mysterious circumstances.
Bibliography
- Pink Floyd (Arcana Editrice, Milano 1985)
- Tatuato sul Muro. L'enigma di Syd Barrett (Gammalibri, Milano 1986)
- Un'anima senza impronte. Nick Drake: la vita, le canzoni (Gammalibri, Milano 1987)
- Syd Barrett (Stampa Alternativa, Roma-Viterbo 1989)
- Pink Floyd. Enciclopedia A/Z (Arcana Editrice, Milano 1990)
- Tatuato sul Muro. L'enigma di Syd Barrett (Gammalibri, Milano 1990 - 2nd revisited edition)
- Tatuato sul Muro. L'enigma di Syd Barrett (Kaos Edizioni, Milano 1990 - 3rd revisited edition)
- Captain Beefheart. Pearls before swine, ice cream for crows (Stampa Alternativa, Roma-Viterbo 1996)
- Syd Barrett. A fish out of water (Stampa Alternativa, Roma-Viterbo 1996)
- Third Ear Band. Necromancers of the drifting West (Stampa Alternativa, Roma-Viterbo 1997)
- Tim Buckley. Thin wires in the voice (Stampa Alternativa, Roma-Viterbo 1999)
- Nick Drake. The sweet suggestions of the pink moon. Genealogy of a rock myth (Stampa Alternativa, Roma-Viterbo 1999)
- Robyn Hitchcock. A middle class hero (Stampa Alternativa, Roma-Viterbo 2000)
- Folk Geneticamente Modificato. Musiche e musicisti della moderna tradizione nell’Italia dei McDonald’s (Stampa Alternativa, Roma-Viterbo 2003)
- Out of Nowhere.The uniquely elusive jazz of Mike Taylor (Gonzo Multimedia, London 2015)
Translations and curatorship
- Tom Robbins, Lo Scopo della Luna (Stampa Alternativa, Roma-Viterbo 1994)
- Mike Watkinson-Pete Anderson, Syd Barrett. Il diamante pazzo dei Pink Floyd (Arcana Editrice, Milano 1990)
- John Cavanagh, Pink Floyd. The Piper at the Gates of Dawn (Editrice Sublime Records & Books, Modena 2005 - second edition No Reply, Milano 2008)
- Steve Matteo, The Beatles. Let It Be (Editrice Sublime Records & Books, Modena 2005 - second edition No Reply, Milano 2008)
- Mike Watkinson-Pete Anderson, Syd Barrett. Il diamante pazzo dei Pink Floyd (Arcana Editrice, Roma 2005) 2nd revisited edition
- Mike Watkinson-Pete Anderson, Crazy Diamond. Il viaggio psichedelico di Syd Barrett (Arcana Editrice, Roma 2008) 3rd revisited edition
- John Perry, Jimi Hendrix. Electric Ladyland (Editrice Sublime Records & Books, Modena 2006 - second edition No Reply, Milano 2009)
- Mike Watkinson-Pete Anderson, Crazy Diamond. Il viaggio psichedelico di Syd Barrett (Arcana Editrice, Roma 2014) 4th revisited edition
Novels, Short stories...
- Finale (Edizioni FUOCOFuochino, Viadana (MN) 2015)
References
- ↑ Ferrari, Luca (24 October 2008). "Green fridges, homeless and mushrooms (translation of Frigoriferi Verdi, Homeless E Funghi)". Luca Ferrari. Archived from the original (doc) on 11 February 2009. Retrieved 13 May 2014.
External links
- Luca Ferrari's books overview and information at Luca Ferrari archived website
- TEB Official Archive
- Fuorchè Il Provvisorio: Luca Ferrari website (in Italian)
- Out of Nowhere book website