Fabi Silvestri and Gazzè are self -taught. And after all it’s okay
Niccolo Fabi, Daniele Silvestri and Max Gazzè walk under the sun to Circus Maximussmiling and joking together. It is late May and the three are making an inspection for what will be their concert-event. Time jump: from the end of May we find ourselves at July 6th. In the ancient Roman stadium everything is ready for the festival of the three songwriters, who gathered 50 thousand spectators Coming from all over Italy: there are those who come from Sicily, some from Veneto, who from Emilia-Romagna. Interviewed by the troupe of the film that Fabi, Silvestri and Gazzè are secretly shooting, they speak of “The master of the party” as of A worship record It is, in fact.
Another time jump: from Rome you go to Cologne, Germany. From 2024 we move on to 2014. Niccolò, Daniele and Max are engaged with the promotion of the album just released and among the various stages also arrive in the German city, guests of a radio that speaks to Italians residing in Germany. “Ten years have passed. What happened was simply the will to celebrate this album among us, “says Gazzè, alluding to the tenth anniversary of the joint album, returning to the present. “Not the experience of the three of us, but just that album,” adds Silvestri. «We are crazy. He was afraid of me (setting up the concert at the Circus Maximus, editor’s note) because it escapes that attention to guarantee our guests the attention they deserve “, Fabi lets himself be missed, who among the three was the most perplexed to the idea of making a mega gathering in the same.Place that hosted those of Popstar like Thegiornalisti, last, Maneskin, Marco Mengoni. In the end, all file smooth: no criticisms, no controversy, only many memories shared to be kept in the digital bookcases of smartphones or in the anatomical ones, more than analogical, of the heart. Now, nine months later, that concert relives in a movie: it is titled “Fabi Silvestri Gazzè – One step at a time“, The director Francesco Cordio directed it, was previewed at the BIF & St in Bari and will arrive At the cinema as a special event on 7, 8 and 9 April. The concert at the Circus Maximus is only the pretext to tell the friendship between the three, from the origins to today, between successes, tours, travel and pieces of life shared together in an hour and forty: A self -breeze that Niccolò, Daniele and Max, who arrived at this point of their respective careers, wanted to take care of. And after all it’s okay.
Everything started from the club: “They said we were recommended”
The film alternates the images of the concert in front of 50 thousand spectators at the Circus Maximus with interviews with the three, but there is no shortage of archive films: the beginning to the Vicolo del Fico room (Cradle of what was called the second school of Capitoline songwriters, who in the 90s brought new creative life to Rome after the years, glorious, of Folkstudio), the participations from Debutants at the Sanremo Festival, the hosts on TV, the promotions of the records. AND The genealogy of a fraternal friendship between three who have found themselves living an important moment of Italian pop culture of the last forty years and have been protagonists: «I have always heard a particular connection with Daniele, because we both belonged to a” well “Rome, in quotes.
I was Pariolino, a noblewoman mother. .In the musical environment we were considered the pussies. They said: “They did not get dirty with life to be able to tell her. Besides, she turned a rumor that he and I was children of», Fabi reflects. “I felt that type of accusation several times. Renzo Arbore was spinning to Niccolò’s uncle, that my dad was a writer and author of Maurizio Costanzo Show », Eco Silvestri echoes him. And Niccolò insists: «I, however, I was the son of a manufacturer of the PFM and record, Claudio Fabi. We were both considered two recommended: we had no sympathy license». Daniele shrugs: «I always thought it was part of the game. And in the end it gave me a series of possibilities, that yes, but precisely in terms of knowledge ». “Coming from the parioli can favor an already existing sense of guilt of those who feel privileged and do not understand well whether the privilege is something that deserves or not”, Fabi says. And Max, instead? «I cut all the bridges. From Brussels I went to London: I occupied a house in the south area. I played with an English band, the Four Play Four. We did very hard jobs, like working six months in a marble “.
The role of songs and music in general
It is naturally music that acts as a common thread, accompanying the spectators in A story that is at the same time intimate and universal, personal and collective. “Hair”, “Leave one day in Rome”, “The man with the megaphone”, “stubborn”, “The usual sex”, “Let’s pretend”, “Under the house”: Each song becomes the piece of a greater mosaic, which tells not only the artistic success, but also a way of understanding music, song, writing, made of heart and brain, belly and mind, social politics and fun «The songs are very small objects.
I don’t think they must have the political message as a fundamental component. They are so small and trivial that the possibility of becoming rhetorical becomes immediate, “observes Fabi. Silvestri is opposed: it cannot fail to be, one who wrote pieces like “Cohiba”, “La Paranza”, “The appeal”, “with a closed mouth”. And in fact immediately afterwards “my enemy” sounds. After all, he had a strong political, social component, also “the master of the festival”, inspired by the environmental and climatic crisis and the fragility of the planet, born from a journey of the three in South Sudan together with Cuamm – doctors with Africa, and then completed “one step at a time”. “We were doing the thing we like most in the world and doing it together, everyone becoming a musician of the other,” explains Silvestri. “There is no hierarchy in this thing: three brains that work together make a bigger brain,” underlines Gazzè.
The photograph of a friendship
“The master of the party” represented a crucial junction for the careers of the three. “Thanks to that trip I became more courageous,” Fabi smiles, who later published “A sum of small things“, His most minimalist and poignant record, that of” Let’s pretend “,” A hand on the eyes “and” The keys of the house “, between Bon Iver, Damien Rice (the cover resumed that of a live album of the singer -songwriter,” Live from the Union Chapel “), Ben Howard and Sufjan Stevens. It was his first album to conquer the top of the weekly ranking. In Italy, beating Beyoncè.Acrobat“Became even more volcanic, gazer with”
Maximilian“More surreal. When in 2023 they announced the mega show to the Circus Maximus, the three explained:” “The owner of the party” became a cult object. For some miraculous reason he continued in his little one to sell every day. In these ten years he often happened to all three of being stopped by fans with a copy of the record to be autograph. It was the photograph of our friendship and a whole generation. Share the music that unites us since in ’93 we started to perform together on the stage of the historic Vicolo del Fico local, now closed now. time”. And in the end, to quote Fabi, also “that crazy azzard” to gather their fans in something so “out of our reach and our measure”, seems to have made sense.
