Meet the Cosmic Lazers team: Marco Beccani
Meet our Tuscan-based music expert
Cosmic Lazers is a project run by friends and music enthusiasts worldwide who are getting together for their love of music.
We want to introduce you to them, starting with Marco Beccani, our Tuscan-based music expert.
“I am Marco Beccani, and I have had an insatiable appetite for music for as long as I can remember. During my time at university, I co-founded the online magazine Blueswriters with Francesco Guerri and began collaborating with the Free-Press Riot Van. These experiences served as a testing ground for future collaborations with La Repubblica and Mood, where I achieved my first international publications. I have a deep connection to the province where I grew up, and I consider myself a son of the land that I never want to leave.
I organize small festivals for emerging local bands, regardless of genre, as long as they possess that creative spark that amazes me. I hold immense admiration for Franco Battiato, whose absence from this earthly realm I feel every day. Additionally, I enjoy experimenting with mixers and synthesizers, blending music from around the world, ranging from African techno to the Didgeridoo of Oceania”.
Here a Q&A with Marco:
If you were a song, which would best capture your essence and why?
If I were a song I would be Moscerini by Vasco Brondi. Vibrant are the emotions that every time listen to it arouses me.
What's your go-to guilty pleasure song that keeps you grooving?
My guilty pleasure song is Mango by Cosmo. Every time I hear it, I want to dance.
If you could collaborate with any musician, past or present, for a collaboration, who would it be, and what magical musical fusion do you envision?
There is only one answer: Franco Battiato. I would let myself be guided by the master to explore new sounds, new philosophies, new worlds.
Share the most unforgettable concert experience that excites you and still gives you goosebumps.
The closure of the Fantasma tour in Montepulciano, by Baustelle in 2014. The stage was set up on the steps of the Cathedral of the Tuscan village. It was a unique, unrepeatable experience, for the scenography and for the resulting emotional charge.
If your life had a soundtrack, which song would play during the most epic moment?
Wild Thing by The Troggs.
What is the one song that instantly transports you back to a specific memory or time in your life?
The song that immediately transports me to a specific moment in my life is Il Discorso del Carlame by Porno Riviste.
If you could be a part of any music video, which would you choose and why?
I wish I was the milk carton in Blur's Coffee and Tv video. Seeing that video has always been a trip...
Imagine hosting a dream music festival. Which three headlining artists or bands would you invite, and why?
At my imaginary festival the three headliners would be Franco Battiato, George Harrison after meeting Ravi Shankar and Caribou. I would like it to be a festival to experience barefoot, in connection with nature, a festival where you can travel while standing still.
Which musical instrument do you wish you could master, and what kind of music would you create with it?
I would like to be a master of synthesizers and samplers. I would like to create hypnotic and avant-garde electronic music, suitable for illegal festivals in the woods.
If you could attend any historical music event or concert, which would you choose and why?
I will be trivial but the answer can only be one: Woodstock.
Share a song you believe is underrated and deserves more recognition. Why does it resonate with you?
I'd say Dinamite by Tre Allegri Ragazzi Morti. A single word repeated to the point of exhaustion. One of those songs that give me a crazy charge. Gasoline when I go for my classic 20km run.
If you had to describe your music taste in three words, what would they be and why?
Chameleon-like, multiform, variegated.
Imagine you're on a road trip with your favourite musicians. Who would be in your car, and what songs would you sing along to?
Franco Battiato and I in a red 1965 Renault 4 singing his No Time No Space.
If you could bring any musician back from the past for one final performance, who would you choose, and where would the concert take place?
Fabrizio De Andrè in concert guitar and voice in the Caruggi of Genoa.