Gianluca Monica

Gianluca Monica, aka Gan, is a producer and multi-instrumentalist musician self-taught born in Parma class of '92. He plays guitars, bass, keyboards, in different experiences sings more like second voice/chorus. He began his artistic career by learning to play the acoustic guitar and immediately ranging into electric and classical guitar. Among his first experiences as a live musician he participated in several dates of the 2018 tour of the Parma group "I segreti" in promotion of the first album "Whatever it is" attending, among other dates, an important live at Alcatraz in Milan opening for Zibba. After this experience he focused on the consolidation of bass and keyboards and then to reach around 2020 to "discover" the production through the use of Ableton. In this area too, he learns in a Self-taught accompanied by several courses online or simple videos on YouTube, the first published works are marked "Fantasmy", a trio of which he was a member, born in Bologna, for which he records an EP in 2023 called "Occhi rossi" released by Aurora discs with singles Fantasmi and Chiavi, with this latest single he he performs live in Radio Lattemiele. Later other singles were released such as "Cloud", "Stay here" and "Don't think about it". The project focuses on dreamy electronic atmospheres. In conjunction with this experience he began to play with "Miglio", an artist of Bologna, moving between bass, synthesizers and management of live sequences via Ableton. He collects in the tours of the last two records, "Futuro splendido" (2023), "Traumfabrik Again" (2025-2026) more than 20 live in clubs of the caliber of Alcatraz in Milan (opening at Offlaga Disco Pax), Teatro Celebrazioni in Bologna (for Lucio Dalla review), Latteria Molloy in Brescia (Musica da bere), Locomotiv in Bologna, Viper in Florence (opening at Offlaga Disco Pax), Off Topic in Turin, CSO Pedro in Padua (opening at Offlaga Disco Pax) and others. For a year now he has dedicated himself entirely to the work of music producer and session musician (he follows, among others, "Ariostea" and "Morso and The Plastic Machine Music"). In his productions he prefers the use of "real" sounds by playing objects that are not properly identifiable as instruments in conjunction with the other tools mentioned above, always seeks a production approach that differs from the norm and that is recognizable.