Different Lands is not a label, but a living musical system.
Different Lands is a long-term musical ecosystem, conceived not as a fixed catalogue of bands or releases, but as a living, evolving terrain in which ideas, sounds and people continuously interact over time.
Within this ecosystem, musicians are not bound to rigid line-ups, stable roles or closed identities. Instead, they move fluidly across projects, styles and historical phases, following paths shaped by collaboration, resonance and shared experimentation rather than by genre labels or commercial constraints.
Projects emerge, transform, dissolve and sometimes reappear in new forms. What holds everything together is not permanence, but a shared artistic gravity: a common willingness to explore, to contaminate languages, and to let music grow through encounters, crossings and long-term creative trust.
Core Ensemble
The stable nucleus of Brave New Worlds, responsible for artistic continuity, musical direction and long-term development.
- Fabio Armani — piano, electric piano, organ (Farfisa, Hammond), keyboards, synthesizers, electronic instruments, programming, composition and direction
- Andrea Fenili — lead vocals, backing vocals, acoustic and electric guitar
- Piergiorgio Lucidi — electric and acoustic guitars
- Luciano Masala — electric and acoustic guitars
Constellation
Musicians who have contributed to Brave New Worlds across different phases, recordings and live configurations, expanding its sonic palette and expressive range.
- Alberto Gatti — electric guitars
- Davide Bonomo — electric bass
- Davide Straccione — drums, percussion
- Donata Greco — flute
- Gergo Bille — trumpet, flugelhorn
- Gianni Orfino — electric guitars
- Greta Moroni — lead vocals, backing vocals
- Ileana Balbassi — backing vocals
- Isadora Mirrokovic — cello
- Kria McKenzie — backing vocals
- Lenina Crowne — bass & Chapman Stick
- John (the Savage) — drums, percussion
- Manuel Trabucco — clarinet, soprano saxophone, tenor saxophone
- Marco Tocilj — soprano, tenor and baritone saxophones
- Massimiliano Gentilini — electric bass
- Massimo Aureli — classic guitar
- Peter Voronov — violin, electric violin, viola
- Simona Capozucco — lead vocal, backing vocals
- Simone Ceracchi — bass
This configuration represents the core performing nucleus centered around Fabio Armani.
Unlike the broader Brave New Worlds constellation, this ensemble operates as a stable musical unit, focused on deep interaction, real-time interplay and long-form development.
The group brings together musicians with strong individual voices, unified by a shared language built on listening, flexibility and extended sonic exploration.
Musicians
- Fabio Armani — piano, electric piano, keyboards, synthesizers, composition and direction
- Piergiorgio Lucidi — electric guitars
- Luciano Masala — electric guitars
- Marco Tocilj — soprano, tenor and baritone saxophones
- Manuel Trabucco — calrinet, soprano, tenor saxophones
- Peter Voronov — violin, electric violin
This ensemble functions as a laboratory and performance core, capable of adapting to different projects while maintaining a clear and recognizable musical identity.
NEXUS SETS builds on the same core musicianship of the Fabio Armani projects, with a stronger focus on electronic structures, sequencing and hybrid sound design.
Acoustic and electric instruments are integrated with synthesizers, live processing and programmed elements, forming a flexible electro-organic ensemble.
Musicians
- Fabio Armani — keyboards, synthesizers, electronic instruments, programming, composition and direction
- Piergiorgio Lucidi — electric guitars
- Luciano Masala — electric guitars
- Gianni Orfino — electric guitars
- Riccardo Pietroni — sequencing, electronic systems
- Peter Voronov — violin, electric violin
Terre Differenti is a long-term ensemble project conceived and directed by Fabio Armani, bringing together musicians from different backgrounds and traditions around a shared vision of cross-cultural and contemporary music.
Musicians
- Fabio Armani — piano, keyboards, synthesizers, samplers, electronic instruments, small ethnic percussion, composition and direction
- Elisabetta Antonini — lead vocals
- Houcine Ata — vocals
- Luca Barberini — electric bass
- Marco Conti — saxophones, flute, clarinet
- Carlo Cossu — violin, viola, ethnic instruments
- Alessandro D’Aloia — drums, percussion
- Miguel Fernandez — classical guitar
- Flavio Ferrari — electric bass
- Abdullah Mohamed — Arabian drums, ney, kawala, argoul
- Noemi Nori — vocals
- Yasemin Sannino — vocals