YES! BOOM! VOILÀ! A title that is an exclamation, a gesture, a way of being in the world.
YES! BOOM! VOILÀ! it is the first chapter of a super band only on paper: five musicians with stories, stages and records behind them who decide to reset everything and start again from a primary, almost physical urgency.
The self-titled debut is a direct, essential album, devoid of any ornamental temptation: songs that do not seek consensus but presence, which tell the present without sugarcoating it and without taking refuge in nostalgia.
We met Roberta Sammarelli (former bassist of Verdena) on the eve of the tour, to talk about live performances, internal dynamics, visual imagery, lyrics, motherhood, artificial intelligence and the need – today more than ever – to return to a human, imperfect, alive sound.
THE INTERVIEW
You are in full preparation for the tour. What's the atmosphere like these days?
We've been locked in a warehouse with a stage set up for six days, bicycles everywhere, rehearsing non-stop. In reality, tonight we will have a secret date for very few people: it's a sort of rite of passage before the actual start. For us it's already the first date, even if the tour officially starts tomorrow.
What kind of live shows should we expect from SI! BOOM! VOILÀ!?
It will be a very engaging, physical concert, fun in some moments and powerful in others. Extremely energetic for sure. The idea is to bring real energy to the stage, without filters, without superstructures.
Will there only be the album in the setlist or have you planned any deviations?
The record is the heart of the live show, but we added a couple of extra things to make it a full length. We didn't want to fill: just what makes sense to play.
YES! BOOM! VOILÀ! was born from the meeting of five very different personalities. What was it like putting the project together?
The musical bases were born in a very natural way two years ago, me, Giulio and Arden. Then came Michelangelo, who wrote lyrics and vocal parts, and finally Giulia. The first day she arrived we recorded the drums practically at once, pressing “rec”. It was a blind-eye adventure.
Managing five strong identities is not easy. How did you find a balance?
On a personal level it's not always immediate, we are five very different people. But on stage everything smooths out. When we play there are no differences: everyone is a fifth of the same body. It's a beautiful feeling.
The visual aspect is also very refined, especially on social media. How important is the imagination to you?
We played it. We didn't want to use the usual codes. The gags in the videos are all our ideas, born at the table during a dinner. We then involved those who know how to develop them technically, but the idea was to present ourselves with an ironic and light side.
A choice that breaks the cliché of the “dark and muscular” rock band.
Exact. We didn't want to be yet another serious, heavy rock band. We are five people who put together this project to have fun, and we wanted this thing to come across visually as well. After all, years ago, the Foo Fighters did it too, breaking certain rigid imaginaries.
Yet the lyrics are anything but light and there is a strong political awareness, although never didactic.
Michelangelo's texts are direct, sometimes ironic, but they are not created to preach. They are our way of reading reality today. An interpretation, not a lesson.
In an age dominated by artificial intelligence, your sound is defiantly human.
Personally I hope AI stays out of the arts. It can be a useful tool in other areas, but in artistic creation it scares me. Perhaps because I am also the mother of three little girls and I feel this responsibility very strongly.
Do your daughters listen to your music?
Yes, especially the song I sing: they want to hear it three or four times in a row. By the second time I'm already embarrassed. But they are lucky, they have their own thinking mind.
Let's talk about the cover: who made it?
It is by Pasquale Desensi, a Calabrian artist. We have never met in person, but I have known him for years. Michelangelo is a dear friend of his and they had already collaborated. We played him the record and he absorbed everything before getting to work. The cover was perfect as it was, we didn't change anything.
What are you listening to these days?
Not much, honestly. Since becoming a mother I've lost a bit of the desire to look for new music. I listen a lot to what my daughters listen to: in the car they decide and we mediate. Every now and then they make me feel terrible things and I tell them so. But that's okay. I make rock music, I live on rock music, but I have never felt the need to forcefully “educate” them. If they want to listen to it, fine, otherwise not. Some things they discover on their own: Blink-182, for example, I never proposed them to them, they arrived at it independently. And that's also why I'm pleased. Music, like everything, must be a choice, not an imposed legacy
We close on a more personal note: the pink bass seen on Instagram.
I will definitely use it on tour. It was born from a collaboration with Christian Bona, my trusted luthier. At the beginning I was wary, after so many lutherie basses that didn't represent me. This one was born from a total comparison: sound, shape, weight. It's a bass that looks like me. I'm very proud of it.
THE TOUR
A debut album that arrives after the announcement of CLUB.TOUR.2026, a trip to the clubs of the main Italian cities produced by Gemma Concerti, which will bring SI! BOOM! VOILÀ! on the stages of:
16.01 – Livorno, The Cage
23.01 – Bergamo, Druso
24.01 – Pordenone, Capitol
29.01 – Turin, Hiroshima Mon Amour
30.01 – Nonantola (MO), Vox
05.02 – Milan, Santeria Toscana 31
18.02 – Rome, Largo Venue
20.02 – Perugia, Urban
21.02 – Ravenna, Bronson
ABOUT
YES! BOOM! VOILÀ! were born from the meeting of five musicians who, after years of different stages, records and collaborations, feel the urgency to start again from a raw, direct, human sound.
A project born without premeditation, in a recording room, as a spontaneous experiment that took on a life of its own – a collective gesture that becomes music.
The band is made up of Roberta Sammarelli (bass), Davide Lasala (guitar), Giulio Ragno Favero (guitar), Giulia Formica (drums) and Michelangelo Mercuri – NAIP. (voice): five personalities with profoundly different paths, but united by the same creative tension.
Roberta Sammarelli is a bassist and musician with a strong sonic identity. After years of stages and productions with Verdena, he took his experience in new directions, collaborating with Francesco Motta and participating in film sound projects and collective performances. Davide Lasala, producer and guitarist, founded the Edac Studio, a hotbed of national and international records (among others, Gorillaz, Fatoumata Diawara, Nic Cester), and has signed numerous independent projects as an author and musician. Giulio Ragno Favero, producer and multi-instrumentalist, is known for his radical sound research. Backbone of “Il Teatro degli Orrori” and “One Dimensional Man”, and sound designer and composer in the theatrical field. Giulia Formica, drummer and performer, has collaborated with Baustelle, Chiello, Colombre and Selton, moving between rhythm, improvisation and visual research. His drums are gesture, presence, dialogue: a propulsive center that unites body and sound. Michelangelo Mercuri (NAIP), acronym for No Artist In Particular, is one of the freest and most recognizable personalities on the music scene. Musician, performer and producer, he fuses voice, electronics and loop stations in a language that breaks down the boundaries between song, performance and experimentation.
Together, they give life to a noise-punk collective in which experience and instinct coexist, where every sound comes from the other, every instrument becomes a voice, every gesture generates a dialogue. Their music does not seek perfection, but the true moment, the one in which the sound discovers itself alive, imperfect, unrepeatable.
On November 14th, with their debut single “PINOCCHIO” SI! BOOM! VOILÀ! they open a new chapter.
FORMATS
The album will also be available in a physical version: a limited edition and numbered 180 gram crystal vinyl in a case with insert lyrics and photography of the band, exclusively for Woodworm, and a limited edition and numbered 180 gram black vinyl version, distributed in all stores.
To complete the release, the ecolpak CD with double tunnel pocket and insert with lyrics.
WEB & SOCIAL
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