Verdena: the first photo without Roberta Sammarelli
After months of silence, the Verdenas show themselves again. And they do it with an image that inevitably marks a transition: it is the first photo of the band without Roberta Sammarelli, historic bassist and central presence in the group’s identity. Just a black and white shot of the Ferrari brothers and a phrase, left there as both a clue and a declaration: “let’s color the monsters”. It is the first concrete sign after Sammarelli’s exit, a separation on which the band she expressed herself in a post, without ever going into too much detail. A void that had opened up inevitable questions: what would the Verdenas have become without one of their three pillars? And above all, would it have made sense to continue?
That photo seems to give an answer, even if implicit. Rather than closing, the Verdenas reopen. They don’t explain, but they get moving again. “Let’s color the monsters” sounds like a program, or perhaps like an attitude: transform, rework, move forward without erasing what has been. It is easy to read within it the idea of new music, of a creative process already underway, perhaps still embryonic but real. On the other hand, the most authentic dimension of the band has always been that of doing. Writing, playing, getting your hands dirty on records and live shows. And the stage could be the next natural step, the place where we can really understand what shape this new chapter will take. The story, meanwhile, doesn’t stop. It changes position, but continues to move. “A new dimension”, they wrote after Roberta’s farewell. And perhaps it is right there, in that sentence left suspended, that the meaning of everything lies: don’t go back to before, but find another way to move forward.
