Andrea “Lensflare” Debbi has been active on the Italian electronic scene since 2006.
A great fan of Progressive Rock, he continued his personal musical research as a pure user, soon landing on the electronics of the “German cosmic couriers” (Kosmiske Music), a genre by which he was dazzled, and feeling the desire to produce his own content in the style of “Berlin School”
The first beginnings in experimentation in subtractive synthesis date back to the mid-2000s, in the environment of Roman experimental electronics (Techno – Minimal) at the time in great turmoil – the F.E.A.R. Festival Elettronica Autoproduzione Romana, with the first edition in 2003, and the broadcast “The Zone” of Radio Città Aperta – in which, using for the first time the pseudonym Lensflare, self-produces two concepts (Industrial Strength and Moonloop), practically a test of the skills acquired in the use of analog machines, personally creating every single sound and taking care of the multitrack composition, presented in a live event at the “Dissesto Musicale” in Guidonia in 2006, as part of the “Chemical Warfare” review.
In 2007, using only VST tools reproducing analog synths from the golden age of the Berlin School genre, he released his first album “Cronache dalla Galassia”, abandoning the techno parenthesis and finally dedicating himself, when the time was ripe, to the composition of “cosmic music”.
The work continued steadily in self-production until 2018 when the success in the underground orbit led him to a higher degree of specialization by creating the first concepts with HW machines (Analog Synths and Virtual Analog).
The technical research continues with the study of “parallel” to subtractive synthesis (Additive Synthesis, FM, Wavetable, WavePWM, Simple&Complex Grain table and Simple&Complex Formant table)
The work that marks the turning point are the concepts “La Valle dell’Inferno” – inspired by the acropolis of Tivoli and the “Romantic Garden” of Villa Gregoriana – and “Mount Abora” – inspired by Coleridge’s “Kubla Kahn” – which open the doors to production with the record label NEU HARMONY (London), to the creation of a music archive in liquid form (BandCamp) and distribution on the main world music platforms (Spotify, Tidal, iTunes etc.).
Over the years, the positive reviews that have appeared in specialized magazines have been interesting, especially the mentions of Maestro Sylvain Lupari in his blog of synthsequences.com reviews.
He actively collaborates with the collective “21st Century Music” (historical Italian collective of electronic music composers, and well-known fanzine on the genre) participating in 2019 in the sampler “22nd Century Music – Electronic Signals from Italy”.
Lensflare continues his production by appearing in programs on the genre on webradios all over the world (SomaFM, Brainvojager etc.), counting on large groups of fans especially in Germany, Poland, Russia and Japan, as well as being a “commission” producer of ambient music tracks for clubs and public structures (also live, such as the performance in 2016 for the Concept-bistro “Komorebi” for which he makes an entire psybient album).
Currently his discography has more than 20 albums released, ranging from Kosmiske Music to the Berlin School (his workhorse), to Psybient and sometimes to Drone Music, inspired by artists of the caliber of Tangerine Dream, Klaus Schultze, Stellardrone, Free System Projekt, Edgar Froese and Steve Roach.
In 2023 some of his tracks were selected for the soundtrack of the documentary “Tivoli e le sue Acque” for the director of Domenico Parisse
in 2025 (July 8th) Lensflare performed live in concert at the Museo Orto Botanico in Rome the concept “Titanomachia” in which the two berlin-school suites (La Profezia di Gea & La Caduta di Campe) are enriched by the performance of M° Arturo Stalteri at the Acoustic Piano.
the concert was an unpublished absolute preview commisioned by Istituzione Universitaria dei Concerti in Rome.
the concert video (by amateur cameraman) is visible at https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gXhZZEvkXVc
On 17th july 2026 Lensflare plays live at the “Ambient Days 2026” an Ambient music festival promoted by “Ambient Italia” in Brindisi, at the Yeahjesi Santa spazio culturale. the concert video (by amateur cameraman) is visible at https://youtu.be/7YV9GuEYiQg?si=1lMA__6-QNuU2Lw5