LUIGI PORTO

COMPOSER
PRODUCER
SOUND DESIGNER

 

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“incredibly striking atmospheres” (Stuart Maconie, BBC, UK)

“Viscous and dark, open and unclassifiable.” (il manifesto, IT)
“Abstract, hypnotizing, absolutely unique” (Angelo Badalamenti, US)

“Porto has long composed music that seems to remember something you forgot” (Psychedelic Baby Magazine, SL)

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Luigi Porto was born in Italy in 1981.

From his early dark-folk and ambient releases, he moved toward a shadowed, electric language that engages with electronics and art music.

His work brings together abstract and concrete materials, guided by an imagination drawn to the enigmatic and magical realism.

 

Luigi has released albums under his own name,

like Tell Uric (Respirano Records/La Lumaca Dischi, 2021),

Scimmie (Cineploit/Snowdonia/Light In The Attic, 2014),

Respirano (2007, reissued 2015),

also with the monickers Mond and Appleyard College, and with several bands,.​

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In 2023 he co-founded MANICBURG, 

a New York-based  art-rock ensemble,

that represents the most electric and performance-driven side of his work,

currently performing in the United States and Europe.

 

His music,

“a multiverse built around the concept of songwriting” (Rumore),

“a great uniting force between Italian scores of old with a smart, focused vision of the new” (Boston Examiner)

has been performed and featured internationally,

from Carnegie Hall to La Croisette, Stanislavsky Theater,

to films (Uljhan, Arbëria among others).

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His first opera, Anita di Laguna, merges contemporary orchestral writing with a post-modern vision of the Italian melodic tradition,

premiering in Brazil and New York in 2026.​​​

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He plays guitar, bass and keyboards on stage.

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He lives in New York City.