Luca Ferrari (writer)

Luca Chino Ferrari (born April 6, 1963) is an Italian music writer.

He has written books about folk and rock musicians such as Third Ear Band, Pink Floyd, Robyn Hitchcock, Captain Beefheart, Tim Buckley, Syd Barrett, and articles and reviews for Italian magazines such as Ciao 2001, Vinile, Buscadero, and Rockerilla. He met Syd Barrett in 1986, and contributed to the reunion of the Third Ear Band during the 1980s.

Having run Italian fanzines about Pink Floyd and Syd Barrett since 1979, he worked together with Ivor Trueman (who was running the fanzines The Amazing Pudding and Opel) on a petition to release the album Opel. His book Tatuato sul Muro: L'enigma di Syd Barrett (Tattooed on the Wall: The Syd Barret Enygma), published in January 1986, was the first biography of Syd Barrett.[1]

In 1993 he contributed an essay to the Captain Beefheeart (Don Van Vliet) exhibition catalogue Stand up to be Discontinued: The Art of Don Van Vliet (Hatje Cantz Verlag) and in 2011 he gave an expertise advice to a book titled Barrett (Essential Works Limited, London 2012), edited by Russell Beecher and Will Shutes.

His book about Italian folk music titled Folk Geneticamente Modificato (Genetically Modified Folk) (2003) is one of the few books on the subject ever published in Italy.

In 2015 he published for Gonzo Multimedia Out of Nowhere, the first biography on English jazz piano player Mike Taylor. In these last years for Gonzo Multimedia and Cherry Red Records/Esoteric Recordings he edited booklets for CDs by Captain Beefheart and Third Ear Band.