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Name
  
Luca Ferrari


Role
  
Writer

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Luca Ferrari (Cremona, 6-4-1963) is an Italian underground writer.

Contents

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.

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. In these last years for Gonzo Multimedia he edited booklets for Capatain Beefheart's and Third Ear Band's CDs.

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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
  • CD booklets editing

  • Third Ear Band, Necromancers of the drifting West (Gonzo Multimedia, UK 2015)
  • Third Ear Band, New forecasts from the third ear almanac (Gonzo Multimedia, UK 2015)
  • Captain Beeheart, Pearls before swine ice cream for crows (Gonzo Multimedia, UK 2016)
  • Third Ear Band, Exorcisms (Gonzo Multimedia, UK 2016)
  • Third Ear Band, Spirits (Gonzo Multimedia, UK 2017)
  • Novels, Short stories...

  • Finale (Edizioni FUOCOFuochino, Viadana (MN) 2015)
  • Shiva a Milano (Edizioni FUOCOFuochino, Viadana (MN) 2017)
  • La giornata mondiale (Edizioni FUOCOFuochino, Viadana (MN) 2017)
  • References

    Luca Ferrari (writer) Wikipedia