[1] In the 1990s Carboni moved to a more personal and minimalistic inspiration, as showed by the voluntarily raw-produced MONDO world welt monde (1995) and by Carovana (1998).

His following albums were Il tempo dell'amore (1999, a collection with two new songs), LU*CA (2001) and ...le band si sciolgono (2006), which includes collaborations with Gaetano Curreri, Pino Daniele and Tiziano Ferro.

[1] In January 2009 he released Musiche ribelli, a collection of 1970s and 1980s cover songs by Italian singer-songwriters such as Eugenio Finardi, Enzo Jannacci, Francesco De Gregori, Edoardo Bennato and Pierangelo Bertoli.

On 1 October 2013, to celebrate his 30-year career it was released the album Fisico & Politico containing 3 unreleased tracks and 9 hits in duet with Tiziano Ferro, Elisa, Chris Brown, Alice, Miguel Bosé, Franco Battiato, Biagio Antonacci, Cesare Cremonini and Samuele Bersani.

The first single from the album was "Fisico e Politico", a duet with Fabri Fibra, while the other new songs were "C'è sempre una canzone" written by Luciano Ligabue and "Dimentica".

[7] On 3 April, the single Canzone sbagliata by rapper Danti featuring a duet with Shade and Luca Carboni is released.

[8] On 8 May 2020, the single Ma il cielo è sempre più blu (Italian Stars 4 Life, a cover of Rino Gaetano's 1975 song Ma il cielo è sempre più blu, was released as a digital download, featuring Luca Carboni in a choral collaboration (recorded remotely) with fifty-four of the most popular Italian singers and musicians.