as part of the Fabbrica Europa 2025 festival
Massimo Silverio, Nicolas Remondino, and Vieri Cervelli Montel combine their backgrounds in a trio with an immersive sound, suspended between the sacred and the earthly.
Distant and ancient roots are revived with new energy in music that deeply explores the space between acoustic and electric.
A precious song unfolds as the three musicians delve into their heritage languages and traditions (respectively Carnic, Piedmontese, Sardinian), in a journey of rediscovery and contemporary reinterpretation of sounds from a bygone era, through a refined attention to timbre and the deconstruction of musical languages.
Their debut project emerges as the result of a shared exploration through wood, strings, skins, and their voices.
Massimo Silverio, voice, cello, gusle
Nicolas Remondino, voice, percussion, sampler
Vieri Cervelli Montel, voice, baritone guitar
Massimo Silverio is a songwriter and musician born and raised in the historical-geographical region of Carnia. He writes and sings primarily in his native language, Carnic, an ancient mountain variant of Friulian. His music speaks through a deeply personal idiom of poetry and sound, blending the popular and the refined, the classical and the contemporary, the tangible and the hidden. It draws on an imaginative world of places, spirits, plants, faces, and ancient rituals. A scholar of traditional Friulian singing – especially the villotta – he has participated in numerous cultural projects across Friuli and Austria over the years. His debut album, “Hrudja” (2023), was born from a collaboration with Manuel Volpe and Nicolas Remondino. Released by OKUM Produzioni, it was met with unanimous acclaim from both Italian and international critics, and was a finalist for the 2024 Targhe Tenco awards in the “Best Album in Dialect” category. The “Hrudja” release tour was a great success, with over thirty concerts in Italy and abroad, including appearances at festivals such as Jazz Is Dead, Locus, Paesaggi Sonori.
>Nicolas Remondino: (non-)musician, (non-)percussionist, (non-)sound-artist, originally from Piedmont and now based in the province of Sondrio. He rejects fixed sonic forms and categories, both in his solo work—released under his own name and with LAMIEE- and in his contemporary-music collaborations with Dròlo Ensemble (which he founded), Tabula Rasa Ensemble and Silentium Ensemble (promoted by the Accademia Chigiana, conducted by Stefano Battaglia and featuring Theo Bleckmann and Walter Prati). He has recorded and performed live with a wide range of musicians and producers, including Any Other, Massimo Silverio, Vieri Cervelli Montel, Marco Giudici, Iosonouncane, Pierre Bastien and Manuel Volpe. Together with Natalia Rogantini (with whom he co-founded the project Lej), he serves as artistic director of the Ala Bianca Festival, curating events in their home valley of Valchiavenna, Italy. In addition, he plays in the indie-folk songwriting collective Byenow, the avant-jazz trio McCorman, and in various improvisational and experimental projects – Vorti (with Michel Doneda), Oort and Ocra Rossa (a prepared-drum solo project).
Vieri Cervelli Montel is an Italian musician of French and Sardinian roots. A versatile artist with a jazz background, he is a composer, songwriter and a passionate researcher of the rural and ancient Sardinia and its traditional music, as well as an experimenter focused on timbre and word. He collaborates on a regular basis with Iosonouncane, who invited him to open the “IRA” tour (2021) and later chose him as the first artist on his label Tanca Records, inaugurated precisely with Vieri’s debut album “I” (2022). He is periodically one of the five voices of the Coro Gavino Gabriel (1953), long-established institution of traditional vocal polyphony from the north of Sardinia, and has also worked with artists such as Crookers, Clap! Clap!, Flavia Laus, Nicolas Remondino, Francesca Gaza and Luca Sguera, among others. Parallel to his musical activity he is involved in graphic design, taking care of the aesthetics of records of numerous artists including Daniela Pes, Iosonouncane, Massimo Silverio, Stefano Battaglia, Ernst Reijseger.
