Some music belongs unmistakably to a place. While ‘À Procura’, the new single from London and Zürich-based flutist, composer and producer Lucas F. Jordan, seems more interested in what happens between places: the uncertain territory where cultures meet, familiar traditions lose their fixed meanings and identity becomes an ongoing act of discovery.
Its title translates from Portuguese as “in search of”, a phrase that captures both the track’s motion and the artist’s wider creative perspective. Born in Brazil and subsequently shaped by life in the United States, Switzerland and the UK, he approaches music from the position of someone accustomed to crossing boundaries.
The piece began as a spontaneous response to a new romantic connection and briefly appeared destined to become a love song. A creative accident redirected it towards a more expansive question: beneath nationality, language and inherited difference, what remains shared? His image of human beings touched by the same moonlight gives the track its philosophical centre, replacing private infatuation with a broader curiosity about connection.
And that evolution is reflected in the music’s refusal to settle comfortably within a single genre. Different traditions appear to approach one another, sometimes recognisable and sometimes absorbed so thoroughly into the arrangement that their origins become difficult to separate.
As a flutist, he also brings an instrument frequently associated with established traditions into a less predictable environment. Its presence becomes another means of crossing distance, capable of sounding intimate, ritualistic or untethered depending on the surrounding textures.
The closing section adds a final disruption. He describes it as a caricature of a specific genre and historical moment, an unexpected gesture that complicates any attempt to summarise what has come before. It introduces humour and exaggeration into a work otherwise shaped by serious questions, suggesting that exploration doesn’t always have to arrive at solemn conclusions.
‘À Procura’ is therefore less a journey towards a single answer than an argument for remaining curious. It recognises the loneliness of existing between cultures, but also the creative freedom that such a position can provide. The result is a thoughtful and adventurous statement from an artist for whom movement is not merely geographical.
With this new release, Lucas F. Jordan turns the experience of never belonging completely into an invitation to listen beyond familiar borders.