London & Zurich-based composer shares expansive, cinematic new track
Some artists spend their entire careers searching for a sound that genuinely belongs to them. Lucas F. Jordan arrives on his debut single already in possession of one — and the fact that “À Procura” emerged almost accidentally, pivoting from an unfinished love song into something far more expansive, makes it all the more remarkable.
Jordan is a London and Zürich-based flutist, composer and producer whose biography reads like a map with no fixed destination: born in Brazil, formed by years in the USA, Switzerland and the UK, trained at the Royal Academy of Music and the Zurich University of the Arts. A Guinness World Record holder and prize-winning composer whose work spans classical performance, electronics, film scoring and opera. That breadth could easily produce music that feels scattered or self-consciously ambitious. Instead it produces this — a single with the quiet confidence of an artist who has spent years absorbing different musical languages and finally found the right moment to speak in all of them at once.
“À Procura” translates as “in search of,” and the title earns its meaning. Musical traditions from across the globe move through the arrangement, some identifiable on the surface, others woven so deeply into the composition’s fabric that they become something new in the process. For listeners who orbit the world of Max Richter or Nils Frahm, the cinematic scale will feel immediately welcoming — but Jordan’s multicultural perspective pushes the track somewhere those reference points don’t quite reach. Give the track a spin below.
