NICOLAS REMONDINO - Hìeratico

I listened to an immense space

Magnificent like a piece of wood

Like a piece of wood falling, revealing its tone

A black and white marked by fierce contrasts, the sharp line of a hypothetical horizon that becomes an edge inhabited by two chromatically opposing figures. This is the liminal landscape, a snapshot of dazzling light set against deep shadow, that appears on the cover of "Hìeratico", the latest release by Nicolas Remondino. An evocative image, a perfect echo of the atmospheric sound environments built by intersecting unconventional percussive patterns with acoustic textures, electronic veins and spoken word in ever-shifting form.

A largely crepuscular territory in which the resonances of matter become the dominant voice, especially where Remondino moves solo, using objects and extended techniques applied to his instruments. Metal, wood, leather, leaves are just some of the means through which markedly tactile, crackling substrata emerge, devoid of any defined rhythmic attitude ("Litho non-danse", "Cuerda de piedra", "Aranha"). It is sound that draws abstract images, enigmatic rooms within which kindred presences appear, ready to step in and expand their aural horizon.

Woven into the sequence we find the introspective whisper of Massimo Silverio slipping between the mechanical theories of Pierre Bastien, in dialogue with Marco Baldini's harmonium (“Tombal”) and the acoustic guitar of Giuseppe Ielasi – whose role behind the mixing desk proves essential – weaving a lopsided melody over an electroacoustic canvas (“Meridiana”). Then there's the emphatic delivery of Limpe Fuchs (“Blue Hymne”), the delicate Eastern suggestion entrusted to the voice of Adele Altro (“Boku ga”), Natalia Rogantini's ASMR-style narration (“Lode”) and the subtle electronics of Roberto Musci (“Sospire”).

The whole thing traces a constant sense of disorientation, an imaginative world that absorbs distant impulses and geographies, making them coexist, projected into a universe made of spirituality and matter to be absorbed by trusting in the potential of deep listening. An invitation to become a “revolutionary of listening,” entrusted to the words of Caterina Dufì aka Vipera, which close “Muracetra,” the arrival point and manifesto of a deeply vivid sensory journey.

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16/04/2026