Born in São Paulo, Brazil, Lucas Mellone has always engaged deeply in creative tasks ever since he was a child. He began drawing when he was only 6 years old, and continued to hone these abilities until he got into the architecture school and started working as an architect.

“Architecture [ school ] gave me a sense that we can do lots of things at once. One day I can explore drawing with my own hands, another day I can explore visualising and understanding complex human-to-space relationships. After trying out so many things, I naturally realised I wanted to pursue music as well, I wanted to expose feelings in a way people can experience in viscerally.”

In between all those years, Lucas really shared a deep love for music by both active listening and playing. He wrote, produced, mixed and also painted the cover art in his newest single “Aujourd'hui”, a fresh collaboration with the pianist Timothy Growth:

“I wrote this song while still in lockdown. I feel the pandemic is something I will still be talking about for a long time, mostly because I lost my father to Covid, lost contact with friends and family, and the lyrics try to summarise this whole field of emotions in a way”.

This time, Mellone’s melancholic vocals talk about a past that will never come back, and many possibilities that were open and hoped for the future:

‘Living behind those memories
I'm used to search for the ways we
Could've make it through
A presеntless present I fathom

Without thе futures we've hoped for
A million times’

“I usually worry a lot about the future and regret about the past. I thought we would all overcome the malice caused by the pandemic with a brighter future, and this future is today. When I wrote the song I was studying French and the word ‘Aujourd’hui’ stuck with me. It just means ‘today’ in english but it has such semantics that makes it a good word to summarise something I always forget about.”

Fusing cinematic with folktronica, ambience and acoustic elements, Lucas paints a broad picture of grief, hope and in-betweens over his sounds.

Now having moved to Italy, Lucas is currently working on a new collaboration with the Italian musician Emanuele Tabarrini in form of the full-length album “Shapeshifter”.