Yes! Boom! Voilà!: three words, three exclamation points, five (great!) musicians and a record that affirms, explodes and surprises.
It all started a few months ago, the day a dear friend of mine shot me a photo on Whatsapp: a group of people in front of what appeared to all intents and purposes to be a stable – cows and piles of straw don't lie – and various operators intent on filming. The question followed: “Do you know who I am?”. My clear answer: “NO”. Him: “They say singers”. I look better, beyond the agricultural setting. One of the two girls is definitely Roberta Sammarelli. My editorial colleagues confirm and contribute to solving the enigma, which only a few days later, coincidentally, finds a definitive explanation in a press conference in reverse (in the sense that they ask the questions to the public): those “singers” in reality are not all singers and are called Yes! Boom! Voila, alias Roberta Sammarelli, Davide Lasala, Giulio Ragno Favero, Giulia Formica and Michelangelo Mercuri aka NAIP. It is precisely in that unusual circumstance that I begin to imagine what could come out of the mix of these 5 musicians, each with a story that, evidently, could not resist intertwining with those of the others.
Yes! Boom! Voila it's not the name you expect, but it certainly perfectly describes the attitude that shines through these interesting minds: YES, we're here, BOOM, let's make a bang and VOILÀ, let's reveal ourselves. Without mincing words, in a raw, honest and dispassionate way, without filters, we with you, you with us. So what does this debut album that is called precisely have in store for us Yes! Boom! Voila! (because a name like that also gives you the title of the album, let's face it)? It is a material that does not come to life, but is born alive, it is not something inanimate that suddenly takes shape, it is already full of meaning: profoundly imperfect, while remaining steadfast in the beauty of its genesis and in the enchantment of creation.
“Pinocchio” is the prologue of this new story, a first single that despite the name doesn't lie: a noise-punk song at 145 beats per minute, not for fragile ears. The sound penetrates the veins and makes the blood boil, ignites the desire to act, do something, anything but not stand still. It's a piece that shakes up the environment, subverts order and throws everything up in the air. It's pure matter, you can touch it, feel it, you can't imagine it, you feel it, that's what it is.
The lyrics of the album, the result of the creative vortices of NAIPare expressed in a dry, cadenced way, with sentences that eschew fluidity and remain broken: an unbeatable stylistic feature that injects messages of reality that are sometimes difficult to digest, but sincere and unsettling as the true truth must be. Just listen to “Voilà” to grasp the meaning of the world today, throw a coin and decide the fate. Of the others. “Living like this (you can't anymore)” is the manifesto of a thought tired of appearances that feed on clichés and recurring actions that satisfy but do not nourish. Superficiality is also that of the “Holy numbers” that establish good and evil, success and failure, consensus or dissent.
A piece like “Lavori in corso” cannot be told, but listened to and let it pass through you as the ending suggests, because it is one of the most intense moments of the album. And if “Gogna Ragazzo Gogna” is the photograph of what it means today to be exposed for just five minutes of glory soon converted to derision or worse, oblivion, “A piece of the Swans” talks about redundancies and self-citations, censorship and latent explosions. The ending must be handled with care: “Da zero” is an intimate, intense and naked piece, written and sung by Roberta, beaded with delicacy to which no comments can be added for fear of dirtying it.
Now that the story is revealed, it's time to have it told live, i Yes! Boom! Voila! on stage and we are ready to incorporate an energy that hasn't been seen for a long time.
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Holy Numbers – Work in Progress – From Scratch
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TRACKLIST:
1. Living Like This (You Can't Anymore)
2. Holy Numbers
3. Pinocchio
4. Voila!
5. Work In Progress
6. While We Suck
7. Pillory Boy Pillory
8. A Piece of the Swans
9. End of Everything Sale
10. God, How I Hate You
11. From Scratch
DISCOGRAPHY:
2026 – Yes! Boom! Voila!
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