Hi! I'm Lorenzo Raimondi aka Sylcoril, an Italian independent musician and producer born in 2000. I write, play, produce, record, mix and master all of my own releases entirely by myself.
Music has been part of my life for as long as I can remember. Through my father I grew up listening to Pink Floyd, Dire Straits and Italian rock, while my mother introduced me to disco, Michael Jackson and, most...
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Hi! I'm Lorenzo Raimondi aka Sylcoril, an Italian independent musician and producer born in 2000. I write, play, produce, record, mix and master all of my own releases entirely by myself.
Music has been part of my life for as long as I can remember. Through my father I grew up listening to Pink Floyd, Dire Straits and Italian rock, while my mother introduced me to disco, Michael Jackson and, most importantly, to the idea that good music doesn't have to belong to one particular genre or be made in one particular way.

Around the age of eight I fell in love with bands such as Linkin Park, Blink-182, Bon Jovi, Limp Bizkit and Radiohead. A few years later I discovered electronic music, pop and hip-hop, and my musical world started expanding very quickly.
I began playing guitar at 14, initially studying rock, then blues and eventually jazz/fusion. Over the years I also learned keyboards and synths and studied music theory for around twelve years. At 18 I played guitar in my high-school band and performed my first concerts outside music-school recitals. At 19 I passed an audition for another band and played with them for about a year, until Covid brought the project to an end.

At 17 I discovered music production, bought my first audio interface and became fascinated by synthesis, recording and digital music. By 20 I had made my first progressive-rock album using just Ableton Live 8 Lite, a battered classical guitar, a €100 electric guitar and a €20 microphone. It wasn't exactly Abbey Road, but it taught me that limitations can be extremely creative.
Along the way I've learned recording, editing, mixing and mastering, and I've also collaborated on songs and albums for a local studio, working across rock, indie, rap and other genres.

In my early twenties I became deeply immersed in electronic and club music: house, techno, ambient, IDM, jungle, folktronica, drone and everything in between. Artists such as Four Tet, Burial, Massive Attack, Aphex Twin, Kerri Chandler, Omar S, Fred again.., Tim Hecker, Brian Eno and Harold Budd became major influences. I released several experimental electronic projects during this period, although I later removed some of them because they no longer represented me.
At 24 I rediscovered the rock, 80s/90s pop and disco I grew up with, while continuing to produce electronic music. I also released a trip-hop double single strongly influenced by Massive Attack and Burial.

At 25 I released two completely different albums: first a house record, and later "The Fretfulness Darkroom", probably the project I'm most proud of so far. It is a 17-track experimental hip-hop album designed as one continuous piece, moving through hip-hop, electronic music, rock, orchestral textures and heavier influences while using instrumental interludes, sampled speech and transitions to connect the entire record. I wrote and produced it during one of the hardest periods of my life, when I was largely confined to my room for months, which eventually became the meaning behind the title.
That record also confirmed something I already knew: I'm much more comfortable being the person behind the music than behind the microphone. I'm a producer, composer and instrumentalist rather than a singer, which is one of the reasons I now focus professionally on backing tracks and instrumental production.

Today, at 26, I'm working on a very personal alternative pop-rock album inspired partly by the music of my childhood and adolescence such as Linkin Park, Blink-182, Wheatus, Liquido, Sum 41, John Mayer and many others while continuing to explore electronic music and anything else that catches my curiosity.
I don't really believe in musical borders. If something sounds interesting, I want to understand how it works, and eventually make something with it.
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