Explore the musical world of Lucia Fenzi, a jazz drummer, composer and producer working across experimental and electronic music.
Drawing from a wide range of influences, from Mozart and Ennio Morricone to Thelonious Monk, John Coltrane, Elvin Jones and Mark Guiliana, as well as electronic artists such as Kraftwerk, Squarepusher, Autechre and Aphex Twin, her music moves freely across genres and styles.
Her work combines jazz improvisation, rhythmic experimentation and original sound design, moving between live drumming, cinematic compositions and electronic production.
Through albums, performances and collaborations, Lucia explores the evolving relationship between rhythm, sound and composition.
Fabbrica Felice
Fabbrica Felice marks a new stage in Lucia Fenzi’s musical development, expanding her approach to composition, production and sound design. Released on 2 November 2026 by Arthropoda, the five-track EP is entirely composed and produced by Lucia.
Moving through dark and sometimes mysterious atmospheres, the EP explores contrasting musical structures, from unpredictable shifts and asymmetric melodies to repetitive, hypnotic patterns. Combining drums, keyboards and electronic textures, Fabbrica Felice brings the physical energy of live performance into a more experimental and carefully constructed studio production.
WAIT!
WAIT! is Lucia Fenzi’s debut album, released in May 2026. Entirely written, arranged and produced by Lucia, it explores the meeting point between jazz, electronic music and cinematic sound.
Each composition has its own identity and atmosphere, taking the listener through a variety of musical directions: from the cinematic textures of Coccobrillo to the ambient passages of Djung, and the blues-driven grooves of Back to the Moon. The track WAIT! also features guitar, adding another dimension to the album’s sound. Despite this diversity, jazz remains a central element throughout.
The production is built around acoustic drum performances recorded in the studio and subsequently layered and processed with electronic drum sounds. Lucia performs the drums and keyboards, and creates the synthesizer parts and sound design, shaping the album’s arrangements and sonic textures through detailed studio production. Guitar and double bass feature on selected tracks. WAIT! reflects her work as a composer, performer and producer, bringing acoustic instrumentation and electronic production into a cohesive musical language.
Verdrone
Verdrone is Lucia Fenzi’s first EP, released independently through DistroKid. The project explores the intersection of jazz, experimental music and dark ambient electronics, combining live drum performances with textured electronic sound design.
Jazz influences emerge in tracks such as Three Something and Faro Five Raw, while Crave C. Verdrone and Bad Dreams explore darker, more atmospheric electronic territories. Live drums feature throughout the EP, except on Bad Dreams, which takes a more electronic and dark ambient direction.
The EP also features a sound design collaboration with Enrico Lucchese, contributing to its experimental sonic character.
Deploy Walls
Since 2024, Lucia Fenzi has been collaborating as a drummer with Bojan “Chibster” Nikolić in Deploy Walls, an experimental project combining harsh noise, feedback, fractured sequencing and jazz-rooted experimental drumming. Their improvised music moves between noise, fractured IDM, breakcore and free jazz, creating unstable sonic structures and unpredictable rhythmic interactions.
The duo released an album in 2025 and has recorded a second at Bear Bites Horse Recording Studio in London, engineered by Wayne Adams, due for release soon. They maintain an active live presence, performing at New River Studios in May 2026 as part of a Baba Yaga’s Hut-curated lineup, with an upcoming performance at Café OTO in February 2027.
Experimental
Lucia’s Experimental Solo project, Live Performance, explores the combination of acoustic drums and analog electronics in a simple and minimal setup.
Using a prepared drum kit, a synth, a guitar pedal, a mixer, and one microphone, Lucia performs without computers or complex equipment. This setup allows her to focus on creativity and real-time interaction between acoustic and electronic sounds.
The result is a dynamic and experimental live set where loops, textures, and rhythms evolve naturally, showing a fresh approach to blending live drumming with electronic sound design.
Hard Desk
An eclectic London-based duo formed by Lucia Fenzi and Giacomo in 2018, still active today and blending electronic and acoustic sounds through studio and live experimentation.
Their genre-fluid music draws from baroque arrangements, 20th-century harmonies, film scores, early electronics, and contemporary jazz.
Lucia combines live drumming, looping, and modular synths, while Giacomo shapes analog and digital textures with custom controllers, creating an expressive, immersive sound world.
Live electronics
In 2017, Lucia Fenzi and Simone Bastianello founded an experimental music duo focused on electronic effects, created exclusively through the no-input mixer technique and an acoustic drum kit.
Despite Simone being based in Italy and Lucia in London, they continue to collaborate remotely, producing music that blends improvisation with a shared artistic vision.
The project includes two live sessions, one live video, and two clip videos, all fully improvised.
Through this duo, Lucia showcases her availability as an experimental drummer for electronic, noise, and organic duos or bands, where her jazz expertise and passion for electronics merge with her originality and musicality.
Lucia Fenzi Jazz Trio
Lucia Fenzi is a jazz drummer and composer, active in both the experimental and traditional jazz scenes.
Here you can listen to tracks recorded in Italy in 2014 with her jazz trio, featuring Marco Vavassori on double bass and Samuele Duse on piano.
The pieces, composed by Lucia, were recorded live in a Venice studio, reflecting the group’s strong interplay and spontaneity.
Although the trio is no longer active, Lucia remains involved in the jazz community and is available for performances, collaborations, and for arranging or composing original jazz works in London and across Europe.
