La BOMBA is the first bold statement as a leader from Italian-born bassist, composer, and producer Luca Curcio, based between Berlin and Copenhagen. The album began as a set of compositions and improvisations before being sampled, chopped, and reassembled in post-production. The result is a bass-driven sound world where acoustic interplay collides with electronic production: grooves fracture and reform, horn lines twist and dissolve, micro-rhythms drive the pulse, and forms remain fluid and unpredictable. The project reflects Curcio’s artistic and personal journey across Europe: recorded in Denmark with a powerhouse ensemble — including fellow Italian Francesco Bigoni alongside Nordic musicians Erik Kimestad, Sölvi Kolbeinsson, and Simon Olderskog Albertsen — and later produced in Berlin, which served as Curcio’s creative laboratory. Radical yet accessible, La BOMBA stands firmly in the jazz lineage while pointing beyond it — improvisation remains at its core, while electronic production methods become equal partners in the creative act. More than just a debut, La BOMBA asserts Curcio’s vision of contemporary jazz: rhythm-forward, urgent, and alive.