LANGUAGE

Jacopo
Bucciantini

(drums, percussions, bass, voice)
2012 – present

He was born in 1993 and he begun to study guitar at seven and drums at sixteen, immediately showing a good attitude for composition and stylistic originality. He has been the drummer of many bands, such as Fatal System Error, Tequila For Breakfast, Assassini Del Pop, Freud’s Statement Project, Daniente, Corde Tese, We, Ryan Spring Dooley, Nick Andreoni, etc. composing and recording a lot of singles and albums, as well as touring in Europe numerous times. He has produced some full-lenght in his recording studio, including “Cobalt” (2018) by Leon Seti (also recording the drums in “Sunflowers” feat. Sound of Thieves) and “Inserire titolo…” (2017) by Canale 52. He founded Trauma Forward in 2012 with Davide Lucioli and he has been involved in all the related initiatives, such as debut-album “Scars” (2016, L.M. European Music / Lizard Records) and the secondo concept-album “Aesthesys” (2022). He graduated in Philosophy and specialized in neuro-aesthetics, but he is also interested in literature, cinema, visual arts and music teaching in some private schools. He directed his first short movie, titeled “Passi”, in 2022 and, the same year, he has realised three videoarts for Museum “P. Crupi” in Reggio di Calabria

Davide
Lucioli

(keyboards, synthesizers, voice)
2012 – present

He was born in 1992 and begun to study guitar and composition in 2011 after increasing his passion for avant-garde music. He has always been naturally an intoned singer, so he joined some bands as vocalist, recording some choirs and lead tracks, using many techniques such as growl, scream, scratched and, certainly, chest singing. In 2013 he has started studying piano with maestro Giovanni D’Iapico and then he has continued as autodidact. At the same time, he has approached to electronic music and sound synthesis, in fact he played keyboards in dubstep group The Amateur Gynecologist until the band split-up in 2015. He founded Trauma Forward in 2012 with Jacopo Bucciantini and he has been involved in all the related initiatives, such as debut-album “Scars” (2016, L.M. European Music / Lizard Records) and the secondo concept-album “Aesthesys” (2022). He is an electronic engineer, but he is also interested in sound frequencies and filters, poetry, graphics, and animation.

Francesco
Zuppello

(guitar, voice)
2014 – present

He was born in 1993 and he has begun to study singing and guitar in 2007, respectively with maestros Daniele Rossi and Luca Ragazzo. Since he was gifted with a great vocal talent and a fine sensibility, specially playing arpeggios with guitar, he joined Fatal System Error in 2009, performing all over Italy and Netherlands, as frontman of the band. In 2014 he was recruit as lead guitarist by Trauma Forward for the recordings of the demo of concept-album “Scars”. Due to the deep harmony which arose among the musicians, he joined the project permanently, in fact he also recorded all guitar lines of the definitive version of “Scars” (2016, L.M. European Music / Lizard Records), as well as he arranged some songs. After that, he has collaborated to the arrangements of the album “Aesthesys” and he has recorded lead voice in the tenth track of the same album. He graduated in food and wine services and now he is working in Hannover. He is also interested in music composition.

Francesco
Presentini

(guitar, bass guitar, clarinet, voice)
2015 – present

He was born in 1996 and he has begun playing many music instruments – especially guitar – in his early childhood because of his father, a virtuous guitarist. Since he is technical and versatile, he has joined lots of bands as bass guitarist, guitarist, keyboard player and sometimes, even as singer. In fact, from 2012 to 2013, he performed with Zetaenne; in 2014 he performed with Soundshine; from 2015 to 2020 he performed with Freud’s Statement Project, recording the album “Oniropompus” (2021); and from 2018 to 2020 with The Big Badgers. He has joined Trauma Forward in 2015 in order to record some tracks of the second album “Aesthesys”, as lead guitarist, nevertheless he also has participated actively to the arrangements of the songs and recorded even some bass guitar lines. He graduated in Physics and specialized in Astrophysics, but he is also interested in poetry, drawing and ornithology.

Michael
De Palma

(bass guitar)
2014 – 2016

He was born in 1997 and he begun to study bass guitar in 2012, demonstrating a notable predisposition for that instrument. He played for a while with some good local musicians and then, in 2015, he joined Fatal System Error as shift musician before – after the precedent bass guitarist left – in order to play in an upcoming tour for the promotion of the album “Longing for an execution” (2013, Audiofollia Records), and as official member afterwards. In 2019 he entered Italian rap scene with the pseudonym Brina, thanks to his album “Io non sono qui” – preceded by the single “Apatia” – produced by Cody Purps and co-produced by Jacopo Bucciantini. He collaborated with Trauma Forward from 2014 to 2016 for the realization of Scars (2016, L.M. European Music / Lizard Records), recording all bass guitar lines, except for the title-track, and live performing. He graduated in Chemistry and he is also interested in acting and free style rap.

FEATURES

Ciccio
Li Causi

(bass guitar in “Light on / Yellow Key”, fifth track of “Aesthesys”)

He is a musician of great fame and incredible skills; he has played bass in Negrita and Litfiba, just to name a few. He contributed to the realization of “Aesthesys”, conceiving and recording the bass guitar line in “Light on / Yellow Key” with great sense of friendship, since he had worked before with Jacopo Bucciantini, as producer of the EP “Tequila For Breakfast” of the homonym band.

Leonardo
Ricci

(violin in “A feelingless afternoon”, thirteenth track of “Aesthesys”)

Born in 1997, he is an exceptionally skilled violinist, in fact he won a lot of awards in national and international competitions. He has performed in Italy and abroad during prestigious events, playing mainly solo or chamber pieces. He played the violin solo in the song “A feelingless afternoon”, the thirteenth composition of the album “Aesthesys” by Trauma Forward, blending masterfully his technical knowledge with his racy imagination.

Darmabams

(voice and transverse flute in “Rendezvous”, eighth track of “Aeshtesys”)

They are a polyhedral indie female duo, formed by Chiara Natali (voice and ukulele) and Virginia Belvedere (bass guitar and transverse flute), that was judged one of the best band in Tuscany in 2015 by the commission of “Toscana 100 Band”. They collaborated to the recordings of “Rendezvous” resorting to their excellent technical skills, sensibility, and creativity.

Fabio
Zuffanti

(co-producer of “Aesthesys” and bass guitar in “Walking to the white path”, nineth track of “Aesthesys”)

He is a famous musician as well as member of cult progressive bands, such as Finisterre, La Maschera di Cera, Höstsonaten, etc. who has accepted to participate to the recordings of the album “Aesthesys”, explaining his precious point of view to enrich the opera and to record the bass guitar line in “Walking to the white path”. Aside his music career, he distinguishes because of his literary research about musicians and his articles for important magazines such as Rolling Stones and La Nazione.

Francesco
Lenzi

(lead guitar in “Heat, crisis and pain”, third track of “Aesthesys”)

He is an experimental and dynamic guitarist who joined a lot of relevant projects such as I fiori dal male, A full circle, Royal Company, etc. He even recorded many soloist albums of different genres, from noise to ambient, among which stands out “Magic Lantern” (2014, Factum Est / Jestrai Records), considered one of the best albums of the year, according to the critics. Francesco Lenzi conjugated magisterially his fine music taste with his huge knowledge of effects for guitar, featuring Trauma Forward. Moreover, he had recorded an acoustic version of “Sense of Consciousness”, eighth track of “Scars” (2016, L.M. European Music / Lizard Records) before.

Leon
Seti

(voice in “Aesthesys”, seventh track of the homonym album)

He is a syn-pop singer, appreciated for his sophisticated minimalism and his ability to unite innovation and extended fruition. He begun his music career as vocalist of the rock band Art is Not a Crime, but then he has continued prevalently as soloist. Since his first works – such as Talking Shadows (2016) and Genuflection (2019) – received fantastic feedbacks, he managed to get incredible results with his second full-length album, titled Cobalt (2018), which reached the first position in iTunes chart of electronic music sales. He sang in the title-track of “Aesthesys” by Trauma Forward, using his fresh and clear style, adding also restless elements which he inserted successively in his single “Hell” (2020).

Lux Harmonica

(final choir in “Gate in sight”, sixth track of “Aesthesys”)

It is a classical vocal ensemble, formed in 2013 from the idea of the expert composer and music maestro Benedetta Nofri, who is renowned for her prestigious international collaborations and numerous prizes conferred by academies and festival commissions; she even went through a lot of tours all over Europe. Lux Harmonica live recorded the final choir of “Gate in sight” inside Rivaio church in Castiglion Fiorentino, after having elaborated marvelously – with class and technique – the draft conceived by Trauma Forward. The vocal ensemble is formed by: Benedetta Nofri, Bianca Silvestrini, Claudia Rossi, Giulio Silvestrini, Luigi Rossi, Luca Baquè and Luca Lippi.

Pynch

(voice in “Honeybunch”, twelfth track of “Aesthesys”)

They are an electro-noise duo formed in 2017 by Chiara Mulas and Michele Marchiani who managed to mix proportionally a lot of hermetic acoustic components to obtain a recognizable and catchy style. During the recording phase, Chiara Mulas – who had worked before with some of the members of Trauma Forward for other projects, due to her vast talent in drawing and graphic creation – put a deep emphasis in the temperament of the song, as well as she changed the lyrics, bringing some awesome improvements.

Ryan
Spring Dooley

(voice and saxophone in “Neon Shrubs”, first track of “Aesthesys”)

He is an American singer and saxophonist, who is notable for his long-lasting role in electro-jazz Neapolitan trio Little Pony, as well as for other post-punk soloist productions for Red Plastic Records. He skillfully played the piece of poetry of the opening of the second album by Trauma Forward and managed to characterize the sound of his brass, through a atypical usage of mixer and analogic filters. He is also known for his naïf paintings.

Simone
Sorini

(didgeridoo in “The myth of Malone Washek”, tenth track of “Aesthesys”)

He is the frontman of the alternative rock band Canale 52, gifted with an energic and biting voice. He recorded a didgeridoo – aboriginal Australian instrument – improvisation in the noise part of the tenth song of concept-album “Aesthesys”. In fact, during his music career, he has managed to stand out among other singers for the usage of ethnic wind instruments, which he even had built using waste materials such as plastic and adhesive tape.

Michela
Speranzi

(voice in “The myth of Malone Washek”, tenth track of “Aesthesys”)

Michela Speranzi, in childhood, Michela was passionate about music and singing, with particular attention to 70s progressive music. At the age of 18 she joined the choral group “Schola Cantorum Guido Aretinus” as a soprano hence she learned the theoretical foundations of singing and solfeggio. In the meantime, she made the first experiences as a solo singer and as singer of various collective projects. Among the collaborations as a vocalist and author , in the early 2000s include the “Masquerada”, the “RGS”, the “Bleeding Joy”, with which he obtains much acclaim thanks to a tour in central Italy. Later she demonstrates his versatility and his desire for innovation by militating in projects of the most disparate styles: “Miclasia”, “Once in a lifetime”, “Boundary Exception”. In collaboration with the Turin musician and producer Peter Hammer, in fact, she publishes “Teardrops on a blank page”, an album with a deep prog-rock accent. She is currently dedicating to an electronic music project with the Sienese musician and producer Gianni Proietti.