For the fifth release on Hood Records, a deeply personal chapter unfolds. FTU, the new alias of Luca, formerly known as Azul Loose Ties and one of Bern's most devoted deep house minds - steps into new territory with four tracks that move between weightless jazz intimacy and textured electronic composition.

"Gentle Encounters" opens the EP with a sense of quiet arrival soft, deliberate, like a conversation that begins before the words do. "Inside" turns inward, layering warmth and introspection into something close and unhurried. "Spheres" lifts the listener into more abstract space, its motion circular and meditative, orbiting a feeling rather than chasing it. Closing with "Alma's Groove", the EP finds its pulse a soulful, rhythmically alive piece that carries the heart of everything that came before it.

With HOODREC005, FTU brings a sound that is both familiar and entirely new. The work of a musician with deep roots and a clear sense of where he's going. A milestone for the label, and a meaningful new beginning.