Justin Curfman + Feeding Fingers

The recording is nearly complete!

Marica Filomena Coppola will be tracking her violin parts on November 7–9. She is a violinist and musicologist with a doctorate from La Sapienza University in Rome, Marica previously contributed a memorable solo to Feeding…

The composition for the forthcoming ninth Feeding Fingers album is finished. Every song is written and arranged. Most of the lyrics have been written as well.

The next step is recording, which begins today here in my studio in Naples…

Episode number 003 of The Justin Curfman Podcast is now online.

This episode focuses on Tommaso Landolfi - one of the strangest and most overlooked writers in twentieth-century Italian literature. A compulsive gambler, aristocrat, translator and master of surreal and…

There is a new Feeding Fingers t-shirt available with artwork by Steven Lapcevic! If you're interested, you can pick yours up via BandCamp or directly here via PayPal. 

If you would like to grab one via BandCamp, just…

In this episode, I trace a path that begins in my childhood in rural Georgia in the mid-to-late 1980s and early 1990s which eventually leads into the deep history of Italian underground, independent and small press comics, or fumetti…

In this episode of my podcast, I explore the ancient coastal site of Cumae in southern Italy—a place where history, mythology, language, and geology overlap in strange and compelling ways.

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Continuing from a previous note where I briefly wrote about Feeding Fingers’ history with microtonality that you may find here, I thought I’d extend that thread for anyone that might be interested—this time focusing on our work with odd…

Leading up to, during and long after the 2018 tours of Feeding Fingers in the United States and Europe, I found myself drawn into something that went far beyond music.

What began as a necessity gradually became a kind of…

Given the recent surge of interest in microtonal music, I thought some of you might enjoy a look into our own explorations in that realm.

Our first venture into microtonality came with the track “Where All of These Towns and…

The Brightest Wound in the Dark (27.6 x 19.7 in / 70 x 50 cm)

Medium: Oil, tempera, and paper collage on canvas
Artist: Justin Curfman
Dimensions: 27.6 × 19.7 inches (70 × 50 cm)
Year: 2025

Description:
The Brightest…

Feeding Fingers & Justin Curfman are now on Patreon!
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For nearly two decades, Feeding Fingers has been the center of my creative life — a strange, stubborn and beautiful experiment that’s taken me from the United States to Italy, from empty bars to packed theaters and from the most…

The Lost Cause of Poetry

Branches scattered
Among the flowers
And even the wallpaper
Where my thoughts do wander
Not silently
Into entrails
Not my own
An ear pressed to a crack in the floor
Listening for
The lost cause…

"Paper Dreams Do Crease", a new Feeding Fingers live compilation, is out now—a compact follow-up to last year's enormous "Surgery and Art" (available everywhere). Download it exclusively on Bandcamp, enjoy and spread it around. Go: 

https://feedingfingers.bandcamp.com/album/paper-dreams-do-crease-live-compilation

While you're there, pick…

Award-Winning Animator Steven Lapcevic Collaborates with Feeding Fingers on New Music Video "Model Lives and Fallen Leaves" - OUT NOW

NAPLES, ITALY– February 4, 2025 – Feeding Fingers is thrilled to announce the release of their latest music video for…

Feeding Fingers' entire (almost) discography is available in both physical and digital formats via feedingfingers.bandcamp.com. You may also purchase whatever you like directly from justincurfman.net, if you prefer. Simply send an email to tephramedia@gmail.com, telling us what you're…

This is being written while in the process of moving to a new studio just outside of Naples, Italy - just after the release of Against the Roses… 

After nearly 20 years of making music—nine albums and four intercontinental…

Feeding Fingers shirts are now available from Cafepress in various styles and sizes. Get yours here:https://tinyurl.com/3eu7n9rr

New designs will be added regularly, featuring artwork by Steven Lapcevic. 

Your purchase helps to keep this project alive. Thank you! 

Get the new Feeding Fingers album, “Against the Roses” in its physical edition here directly from justincurfman.net or, if you prefer, via Bandcamp.

Stream the album via Spotify, Apple Music, etc. It's now streaming everywhere. 
 
If you…