Boxedge & Lunaria Payne
Glimpses of past and future, in electronic music
My story
My name is Alessandro Bemporad. I am an electronic music producer (and a senior software engineer) from Florence, Italy.
It’s really strange for me to think how many years have passed since “Boxedge” was the name of a Florentine darkwave band, in which I was the singer, keyboardist, and songwriter.
It was the 80s, and I was a very young dark post-punk. They were the years of The Cure, The Sisters of Mercy, Gary Numan, The Cult, Killing Joke, Japan, and so many other artists who filled my nights with their concerts and records…
Introducing Lunaria Payne
Lunaria Payne is my creation.
She is not an artificial intelligence: she is an artificial singer, a cybernetic angel with gothic and darkwave traits, programmed by me. A permanent guest in my songs, Lunaria Payne is one of my distinguishing features.
Boxedge feat.Lunaria Payne
Walking in the Rain
A song I wrote a few years ago, with a new synthetic interpretation by Lunaria Payne, and with a new arrangement and production. "Walking in the rain" is the story of a love that died a moment before being born.
Situation
With this cover song, I celebrate Vince Clarke and Alison Moyet (Yazoo), two artists I have loved ever since I bought the single of their original ‘Situation', when it was released in 1982.
To cut a long story short
Turn up the volume, and listen to my electronic tribute to Spandau Ballet.
Cold
My tribute, with respect and love, to The Cure.
Masquerade
I invite you to discover 'Masquerade': my synthpop homage to The Berlin.
Love like blood
My electronic tribute to the Killing Joke.
I breath
A personal tribute to a Vacuum classic from the 90's.
I am Dust
My personal electronic tribute Gary Numan
Rain
My electronic tribute, with love, to The Cult.
Invocation
Invocation is a reflection on the loss of meaning, in the face of the pain that lurks at every step. Often, this sense of loss increases also because of our feelings of guilt, of mistakes made in the past. And so it happens that in a few brief moments of time we find ourselves looking upwards, towards the sky, in search of protection and refuge from a world that is often decidedly incomprehensible.
Alice
My personal tribute, with love, to The Sisters of Mercy.
The Circle
I wrote this song one night many years ago, in the dark in my room, smoking a cigarette. I thought that what I had just found was too good to last, and that it would soon be over, even in the face of promises of eternal love. And so it was.
Under The Moon
This song is loosely inspired by an Italian poet from the first half of the nineteenth century that I have always loved: Giacomo Leopardi. Under the moon, which looks at us indifferently from afar, our lives unfold, often sad and useless. And in the end our hearts cried for a long time, in vain.
Boxedge
Violet
The meeting point between rationality and irrationality. A musical dialogue with the painting "Viola" by PZ.
PZ.Space
"Solaria": an Asimov dreaming.
"Savannah" is an electronic rain dance.
"The Black Hole: diving Deep.
"The Cave": lost in an electronic dungeon.
"Pulsatilla": techno music, running in the desert sands.
Pulsatilla Electro Remix
The art of staying clean, inside.
Elements
Earth, Air, Fire, Water. A suite in four parts, which I dedicated to the four elements of nature. My sensations of Celtic electronica, composed in my beloved Bretagne.
Saturday Night
"Saturday Night" is an ironic song, sung in Italian, which tells us about the grim reaper, who hides in our dreams to remind us that we should never waste time on useless things. Because, sooner or later, she will really come knocking at our door, and then we will regret the time lost, the love we could have given and didn't, the good and bad days we didn't live and will never live.
Salomé
An electronic evocation of our collective unconscious.
Boxedge 01
"Last Train": A techno song from dark railways. "Archetype": archetypes are permanent elements of the unconscious, but they constantly change form. (C.G. Jung)
Other productions
electronic music
Twinsonix
Between 2017 and 2020 I produced an artistic project with the participation of the Ukrainian soprano Maryana Bodnar, a crossover between electronic music and opera singing.
Dentro
A song I wrote and produced a few years ago, with the vocal interpretation of Valery Cillo. It is definitely one of the songs I care most about.
Paradise
An Electronic dance track.
Red Lips
Between 2014 and 2017 I composed and produced albums, EP and singles of electronic dance music, synth-pop, blues and gospel for the voice of italian singer Neena.