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Name: Fik y las Flores Molestas
Address: 3 Via Sile, Padova, 35135, IT
Telephone: +39 3401565308

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"With the arrival of the beautiful season, the "Spring" of Fik y las Flores Molestas blossoms: the album of this collective based in Padua is enriched by the collaboration of the musician Fosco 17 during the production phase, and sees the light distributed in total independence.

Ten tracks (among these, a cover) to compose a structured, organic listening proposal with interesting (and unusual) stratifications: the album, as those directly involved say, explores new sounds, leaving us to presume the intention of into play and leave creative fields that are already widely explored. It's natural to find episodes in the tracklist that gravitate between pop and alternative, before suddenly turning to Afro, samba and surf rock sounds: everything is amalgamated through the firm and attentive hand of the artists directly involved, both in their recording sessions and in the laboratory. post-production files.

Time in the company of Fik y las Flores Molestas passes quickly and lightly, thanks to careful choices and with the boost of healthy enthusiasm, far from convenient solutions and trendy styles for the vast majority of recording products. Positioning yourself in the alternative scenario with a publication like this is significant, and getting "Primavera" to as many people as possible will make the leap in quality and important artistic growth possible."

Giandomenico Piccolo - Rockit Magazine

While the first leaves were starting to turn yellow, we started playing "Pissin'around" by Las Flores Molestas and, miracle, autumn suddenly became just a mirage. Merit of the Paduan band that with its load of colorful Latin jazz'n'roll made us forget the first cold of the season and embraced it with tropical rhythms and the sun of good music. This is a really well played album where you can hear, practically in every single harmonic passage, how much fun the band members had to record it. Take the second track, "Hakuna Matata!" and tell us if you too, roughly around 1.15, didn't feel an urge to get up from your armchair and start dancing in the living room.

Here, in our opinion, this fact of extreme sociality of Paduan music is perhaps their greatest merit: this is an album to be listened to in company, perhaps even better together with a group of friends or, why not, even among strangers who then in the end we always get to know each other.

After all, music also and above all serves to create bonds and "Pissin'around" is certainly an excellent help in doing this. Honorable mention then for the final track, "At the Station Intimate Version" which revealed to us a more romantic and tormented side of Las Flores Molestas, which we would love to explore in their next works.

Mattia Nesto - RockIt Magazine

"A Caisa Drum, a Stratocaster and an original idea of experimental music

I had some thoughts before listening, some waste from the day, but then during the dadaist tracklist of Play + Rec everything faded away. To really understand this duo, however, we must start from their idea of music and their instruments.

Stefano Cosi hits his Caisa Drum, a sort of Hang Drum, into which he inserts a ping pong ball if necessary. Then, in addition to recording his thunderous laughter, he plays the drums, a distorted cello, a Kalimba Sansula with the Wah Wah incorporated, an instrument that imitates the sound of the wind. Federico Ficarra instead takes up the Stratocaster electric guitar to which he adds various "Live Electronics" effects.

The result cannot be explained. You can only sit there, still, and listen. Stefano and Federico define their creations as experimental (definitely), rock (in the approach) and ambient (as instrumental songs without singing).

Some passages might recall samba, others Tibetan bells, still others are hypnotic. The fingers on the Caisa Drum seem to chase rhythms of ancestral tribes, while the other sounds enrich the atmosphere.

There is no more right or better time than another to press play on this album. Because there is always a thought to banish. Of course, if you want, you can crush Rec on your reactions."

Francesco Carrubba - RockIt Magazine

TOUR DATES

TOUR dates

LIVE in trio @Galleria 46 PD
Fri, Feb 28
Galleria 46
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Fik LIVE @Sunrise Bistrot
Fri, Mar 07
SUNRISE Garden
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LIVE @Al Vapore Bar & Musica
Fri, Mar 28
Al Vapore
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Fik LIVE @Oste Divino
Sat, Mar 29
L'Oste di Vino | Enoteca • Ristorante •
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Fik LIVE Matrimonio
Sat, Jun 21
Vicenza
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LIVE in trio @Lazzate MI
Sun, Sep 28
Lazzate
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Fik LIVE @All’Oste Divino
Sat, Feb 01
L'Oste di Vino | Enoteca • Ristorante •
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LIVE SOLO @All’Oste Divino
Tue, Dec 24
All'Oste Divino di Visentin Diego
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Fik LIVE @Ibisco
Fri, Dec 20
Ibisco
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Fik LIVE @Ibisco
Fri, Dec 06
Ibisco
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LIVE in trio @CRC Abano (PD)
Sat, Nov 09
CRC Anima & Musica
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Fik LIVE @Conestoga
Thu, Oct 03
Conestoga di cooperativa sociale controv
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LIVE in trio @Lazzate (MI)
Sat, Sep 28
Lazzate
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LIVE in trio Matrimonio
Sat, Sep 21
Le Quattro Rose
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LIVE in trio @Brasserie Houblon VE
Fri, Aug 30
Brasserie Houblon
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Finale categoria concorso Je So Pazzo
Wed, Jul 17
Parco Della Pace
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Fik LIVE @Prato della Valle PD
Fri, Jul 12
Prato della Valle
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Fik LIVE @Prato della Valle PD
Sat, Jun 29
Prato della Valle
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Bio

Fik GOALS

The article that the Berliner Morgenpost, a well-known Berlin newspaper, dedicated to me. Fik y las Flores Molestas.

Translation:
"The street is their stage. Passers-by and Metro travelers are their audience. Berlin's street musicians are anything but amateurs who want to collect their daily tip. Some have attended a conservatory and played in large concert halls concert This is done by the blues player Federico Ficarra from Venice, who plays here in front of the Metro station at Potsdam square.

Berlin is for him just a way station. His plan is to go to the USA.

Five local stars talk about their life in Berlin and their concerts in front of an audience of passers-by in the illustrated Berlin newspaper.

If Federico Ficarra had been born in the 16th century, perhaps he would not have left for Berlin. Back then Venice was still the city of music par excellence. Vivaldi composed his violin concertos and the Venetian School around Claudio Monteverdi favored the transition from the Baroque to the Renaissance with his compositions.

But that is long gone, the times of musical progress have passed. "The Venetians no longer have the spirit for music" says the musician born in the lagoon city, and his gaze, through the glasses, is a little sad.

"My professor at the university was not able to explain what a pentatonic scale is".

For his own musical renaissance Ficarra had to come to Berlin.

"Everyone at home told me that there would be many possibilities in Berlin," he recalls. He immediately hears his baritone voice, before descending the stairs to Metro line 2 at Potsdam square.

Ficarra stands there in jeans and a pullover. A man and his guitar in the stream of passers-by. His eyes are closed as he plays Tommy Johnson's "Big Road Road Blues". He sings it energetically with his distinctive Italian accent. A young lady searches for her purse, Federico smiles.

He sometimes gets angry because he can only play covers: for his own pizzicato blues compositions there is too much noise in the tunnel.

Then he goes back to the classics, like House Of The Rising Sun, so he can play hard on the strings in A minor.
Pragmatism matters.

With these Classics it is easy to impress people: the 24-year-old earns on good days 20 and an hour.

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An article that the Berliner Morgenpost dedicated to me.

Translation:
"The street is their stage. Passers-by and Metro travelers are their audience. Berlin's street musicians are anything but amateurs who want to collect their daily tip. Some have attended a conservatory and played in large concert halls concert This is done by the blues player Federico Ficarra from Venice, who plays here in front of the Metro station at Potsdam square.

Berlin is for him just a way station. His plan is to go to the USA.

Five local stars talk about their life in Berlin and their concerts in front of an audience of passers-by in the illustrated Berlin newspaper.

If Federico Ficarra had been born in the 16th century, perhaps he would not have left for Berlin. Back then Venice was still the city of music par excellence. Vivaldi composed his violin concertos and the Venetian School around Claudio Monteverdi favored the transition from the Baroque to the Renaissance with his compositions.

But that is long gone, the times of musical progress have passed. "The Venetians no longer have the spirit for music" says the musician born in the lagoon city, and his gaze, through the glasses, is a little sad.

"My professor at the university was not able to explain what a pentatonic scale is".

For his own musical renaissance Ficarra had to come to Berlin.

"Everyone at home told me that there would be many possibilities in Berlin," he recalls. He immediately hears his baritone voice, before descending the stairs to Metro line 2 at Potsdam square.

Ficarra stands there in jeans and a pullover. A man and his guitar in the stream of passers-by. His eyes are closed as he plays Tommy Johnson's "Big Road Road Blues". He sings it energetically with his distinctive Italian accent. A young lady searches for her purse, Federico smiles.

He sometimes gets angry because he can only play covers: for his own pizzicato blues compositions there is too much noise in the tunnel.

Then he goes back to the classics, like House Of The Rising Sun, so he can play hard on the strings in A minor.
Pragmatism matters.

With these Classics it is easy to impress people: the 24-year-old earns on good days 20 and an hour.

Continue ---->

Click on the photo to read the translation

for Federico Ficarra playing at the Potsdamer Platz station is just a small step: Berlin is only a halfway point on his journey to the USA where he wants to land one day to study Afro-American music. Federico is not an amateur, he is an academic.

In Venice he graduated as a sound engineer and musician. Then he worked on a virtual listening system that allows listeners to understand from which direction sound waves flow. So he wanted to revolutionize the revival of classical concerts, he composed blues himself.

"I've always liked African-American music a lot. Maybe because I've always listened to it with my girlfriend," he says.

On the Internet you can hear his recordings: full-bodied jazz with crazy piano solos. Something crazy, but beautiful.

After three hours the street music gets boring, says Federico, as people run in front of him en masse.

For now, music is his only resource. He doesn't want to play on trains, it would be too restrictive.

Federico is free, he can come and go whenever he wants.
In Venice, however, he does not want to return so soon.

In his Facebook profile, his birthplace appears to be New Orleans.

Rockit Interview "There is no pleasure in Italy in being Fik"

There is no pleasure in Italy in being Fik

To become a modern Freak Antoni, Fik merged street music, jam sessions and conservatory to create the Karneval of Love, or the parade of self-determination of bodies.

Federico Ficarra is Fik, a musician born and raised in Padova. "In life I deal with music at almost three hundred and sixty degrees", he says. "I am a concert performer and arranger. I compose music and words, I am a street artist, I teach privately, individually and in groups, and I organize events and jams". To train, he moved to Berlin, where he immersed himself in the world of street music and jam sessions, jazz and the self-determination of bodies, eventually forming his own band: Fik y las Flores Molestas (with whom he has just published a new album, Primavera). Inside their pieces there are jazz and blues influences, mixed with the typical freak style of the founder, a modern Freak Antoni.

During our chat he mainly talks about one event, the Karneval of Love. It is "a parade whose main content is the self-determination of bodies, also understood as a liberated artistic expression universally inherent in the human being". The Karneval of Love was born in Germany in 2013 and it was not easy to bring it to Italy. "The Lega Nord mayor Bitonci immediately banned the demonstration in the streets in Padova. But in general there were also doubts on the part of artists' associations, associations for migrants and for women's rights. They thought that anti-prohibitionist content, body-painted bodies and songs about ethical non-monogamy could disturb children and families. But Fik's next project is to resume with the Karneval parades, "which today seems increasingly urgent and relevant to me". We met him to tell us how a freak parade and a jazz band coexist.

What was your academic path?
I picked up the classical guitar when I was 8 years old and studied with Louis Valencia, a teacher from Ecuador. In high school, listening to Scar Tissue by RHCP, I switched to electric guitar and then to jazz to prepare for the entrance tests at the jazz conservatory in Graz, the toughest in Europe. Realizing how serious it was (there were heroic stories of people who stayed to study for 72 hours straight, musical hikikomori) I went to Berlin and continued my studies as a self-taught person, absorbing everything I could, doing concerts in clubs, as a busker on the streets and frequenting jam session environments. Finally, having returned to Italy to have surgery and recover from PTSD (Post Traumatic Stress Disorder), I graduated in jazz guitar at the Padua Conservatory, in particular with guitar maestro Daniele Santimone and piano maestro Marcello Tonolo. Here I had privately obtained a Theory and Solfeggio License and had previously graduated in Recording Room Technician, an impractical and very theoretical diploma where I mainly learned musical information technology, I studied classical piano and Ear Training.

Where did you meet the rest of the band?
The first formation of the band was improvised as sometimes happens for jazz ensembles, on the occasion of the concert held at the Insomnia Night-Club in Berlin as the first official edition of the Karneval of Love festival in 2013.

Subsequently we continued to spread this effervescence in that and other clubs such as the Kit Kat Klub, the Brunnen70, the Kiki Sol, in the parks and on the streets always in marching band formation. Many musicians participated in these editions of the Karneval of Love, especially amateurs, the main recipients of the festival. Then we managed to bring the event to Italy too. The first edition in Italy took place at the former Mame, now Parco della Musica, in Padua, there I met Amedeo Schiavon, the drummer of the first permanent group in Italy, and as bassist I chose Alberto 'Bebo' Pretto, a former colleague of studies at the conservatory.

How would you define your music?
The music that I compose and then arrange, play live and record in the studio is difficult to define, the reference genres are too many: jazz, swing, blues, funky, grunge, samba, pop, rock, hard rock, metal, surf , rock'n'roll, discomusic, ambient, cinematic, minimal, jungle, reggae, dubstep…lately I've been inspired by rap and hip hop. Difficult to target and brand! I like to call it hard jazz hip pop fusion!

What is Primavera about?
My latest work was born above all from the need to express and sublimate a pain that found no expression except in music. There are various autobiographical references as happens in blues music (the one I am most attached to) or rap. But also many themes that concern anti-racism, anti-fascism, social justice, anti-abilism, ecology, anti-nationalism, anti-militarism and pacifism.

Besides the Karneval of Love, what are your concerts like?
I have a couple of anecdotes to tell in particular. I remember a club in Berlin, not a club nor a night club, a simple place in Wedding where I was singing the songs of Pissin'around with voice and guitar accompanied by my saxophonist colleague Milo Lombardi. At a certain point people began to undress as in the song Gianna by Rino Gaetano, a dancer friend climbed onto a table dancing and twirling her bra: panic broke out, many people stripped to their underwear and a parade spontaneously started up and down. down the two floors of the room.

The same thing happened at one of my solo concerts in Padua. Spontaneously a parade started with Mexican wigs and sombreros while I sang Besame Mucho around the place in mariacho style, even stopping inside the bathroom. The audience had invited me several times to take off my shirt, which I did without hesitation. Besides, it was hot. In Berlin the manager of the venue took part in the enthusiastic parade, in Padova I never played in that venue again.

Future projects?
Compose and record new music, new songs also in English and Spanish, record classics of blues, rock and jazz music in live concerts, take up old compositions for guitar alone from high school and make an album from them. I would like to resume the study of classical music and other piano readings and start a Free jam session (without covers or stylistic constraints) in Padua and its surroundings. Above all, I want to start organizing the parades of the Karneval of Love festival again, which today seems increasingly urgent and relevant to me. At the moment I'm arranging the horn section for a small parade at a freak wedding which will be very special.

Onda di Mare arrives at the national finals of Je So Pazzo Music Fest 2024

On Wednesday 17 July I performed on the stage of the Je So Pazzo Music Fest 2024 for the national finals bringing my samba Onda di Mare. The ninth edition of the music competition dedicated to Pino Daniele took place in Marino, near Rome.

Primavera premieres on April 19, 2024!

"“Primavera”, the new ambitious project by Fik y las Flores Molestas, is proposed as an eclectic journey through a broad musical panorama, ranging from minimal to cinematographic, passing through surf, pop, afrobeat and ending with almost heavy metal accents of hard rock. The album, consisting of 10 tracks, not only immerses itself in different sonic atmospheres, but also covers themes of social justice and denunciation, making it an auditorily and emotionally challenging experience. .

The New Acid Blues begins with a nostalgic tribute to the blues, renewed with a modern jazz performance and orchestral arrangements. This piece serves as a bridge between Fik's musical past and the album's new sonic explorations.

Stranger is a powerful autobiographical narrative. The fusion of inspired rap and a minimalist funk rock foundation creates an intense atmosphere, highlighting Fik's personal struggles with the disease and how these have shaped his life and his art.

Discrimine takes the album into darker territory with its heavy dubstep foundation. Fosco17's production is felt with strong influences in deep bass and electronic arrangements, making the song a powerful cry against social injustices.

Africa Nera is an anti-racist anthem that combines elements of Afrobeat and rock. The emotional lyrics and rich musicality invoke a sense of urgency and activism, urging listeners not to remain passive spectators.

Loophole stands out for its unique textual approach and a beat that nods to disco music. The dadaist and provocative lyrics fit perfectly into the context of the album, expanding the boundaries of Fik's artistic expression.

Onda di Mare is probably the most emotional piece on the album, a work that mixes samba, jazz and surf in an evocative arrangement. The nostalgia and melancholy of the lyrics combine with the musicality to create a complete work of art that promises an equally attractive video clip.

Spring, the main track, perfectly summarizes the essence of the album: a fight for social justice and anti-racism, mixed with autobiographical references. The combination of musical styles, from rock to surf to bossa nova, demonstrates Fik's versatility as a musician.

Tristano B. Goode offers a strong contrast to the rest of the album with the rock sounds and bold dissonances of it. The charged lyrics and odd-tempo composition add a progressive and almost theatrical dimension to the piece.

Completely instrumental, Figaro is a pure expression of Fik's guitar playing. The contemplative atmosphere is amplified by the delay effects and the meditative serenity of the ambient sounds, creating a moment of reflective pause within the album.

Basket Case, Green Day's cover, is completely transformed. Fik's performance takes the song into an almost bluesy dimension, with a new instrumental arrangement that includes a string section, giving the piece a surprising freshness.

In conclusion, “Primavera” is an album that challenges conventions and boldly crosses musical and thematic boundaries. It is an album that demonstrates how music can be a powerful vehicle for social and personal change."

Alessia Ventura - Onde Indiependenti

Stranger is first in the Classifica Indipendenti Rap / Trap!

My debut song in the rap genre Stranger won first place on the Independent Rap / Trap Chart on December 25, 2023.

Oberbaumbrücke close to Wahrschauerstr. Metro Station in Berlin. Fik used to play a lot there. Fik y las Flores Molestas.

The album Pissin'around is born

The album Pissin' Around (bringing peace around) was composed by Federico during his time in Berlin. Most of the songs are dedicated to a lost love, the others to humanitarian causes. The production of the album involved 16 musicians of various nationalities and 3 recording studios including the Funkhaus in Berlin and Studio 2 in Padua.

Spaghetti Swing & Samba

In the period 2011-2015 Federico collaborated with saxophonist Milo Lombardi with whom he founded the duo Spaghetti Swing & Samba. Together they played in many Berlin venues, including Jazz Clubs, and were positively reviewed by Andrea D'Addio's Berlin blog Cacio e Pepe. On 30 October 2018 the duo had the honor of performing for Angela Merkel at the 20th anniversary of the German culture ministry.

The article in the "Mattino di Padova"

First review of the Mattino di Padova on local bands

Quei Cosi

Quei Cosi is an experimental ambient music duo. Jazz percussionist Stefano Cosi plays the Hang Drum, a fascinating instrument made in Switzerland since 2000. Together they recorded the album Play + Rec whose melodies and harmonies were composed by Stefano, others were arranged and improvised for electric guitar and Live Electronics by Federico.
Often their live music is full of impromptu parts.

THIS IS FIK

Federico Ficarra, known as Fik, is a performer, singer, guitarist, music producer and composer. He teaches music and is the manager and factotum of the band Fik y las Flores Molestas. In 2024 his song Onda di Mare (from the album Primavera) reached the national finals of the Je So Pazzo competition, and was also selected along with other songs from the album for the national semifinals of the Premio Lucio Dalla competition; the first single Stranger came in first in the national independent rap trap chart.

Fik lived for 4 years in Berlin: he played (guitar and voice) in several very famous clubs such as the SO36 (David Bowie was cheered on by both the public and musicians to take the stage at the height of his Berlin period), the Insomnia-Nightclub, the Brunnen70, the Kit Kat Klub (Liza Minnelli, the venue where the Love Parade was born) where he led a festival from he designed called Karneval of Love, the Sony Center at Potsdamer Platz, Hotels such as the Circus Hotel at Rosenthaler Platz. Jazz Clubs such as B-Flat, Waldo Bar, Ernst, Zosch, and Naked Jazz Festival were exported from New York to Berlin by drummer Eric Vaughn. He has been invited 2 times to play at the Yorckschlösschen Home of Jazz & Blues. The main newspaper Berliner Morgenpost dedicated an article to him with photos on the front and inside pages. In Berlin, he collaborated with Milo Lombardi, Charles Sammons, Lars Karlin, Roland Satterwhite, Pinar Tatlikazan, Seraphim Greno Bradel, Mike Basden, and others.

In Italy he played as a soloist for 2 years at the Ritz Hotel in Abano; in Venice 1 year at the Moresco Hotel and a few months at the Carlton Hotel on the Grand Canal, restaurant, and Top Of The Carlton Sky Lounge. With his band and other previous formations (blues and jazz) he has played in many venues in Padua (ex-Mame, current Parco della Musica, Caffè Pedrocchi, Palazzo Zuckermann, Osteria Barabba, Pedro, and many others), Venice (Hard Rock Cafè, Al Vapore, Forte Marghera, Paradiso Perduto...), Vicenza (Vinyl, Rive Jazz Club), other cities in Veneto, Friuli Venezia Giulia (Trieste, Sofar Sound), Trentino, Lazio (Rome) and Lombardy. He has played in 2 editions of the Sherwood Festival (one as a soloist, one in a marching band) and other local festivals such as Yucca, Navigli, Oktoberfest, or Folk Festivals. In Italy, he collaborated with Alberto Pretto, Glauco Benedetti (Jovanotti), Giovanni Perin, Giulio Tullio (Elio), Michele Uliana, Edoardo Brunella, Alessandro Brunetta, Stefano Cosi, Sergio Gonzo, Tommaso Piron, Amedeo Schiavon and many others.

In the past he studied theater acting, in particular comedy and impromptu, and worked with well-known directors and actors from the Teatro Verdi in Padua and the Teatro Piccolo in Milan: Lorenzo Maragoni and Giorgio Sangati. Fik obtained the Theory and Solfeggio License with Maestro S. Lanza, and 2 degree diplomas, one in "Computer Music and Sound Design" (in particular studying classical piano with Maestro G. Di Toma), the other recently in " Jazz guitar” studying with Masters M. Tonolo (jazz piano, arrangement), D. Santimone (guitar) and F. Angiuli (ensemble music, history), both with top marks at the Cesare Pollini Conservatory in Padua; here he created with Alvise Vidolin, Luigi Nono's sound director, an audio installation with binaural synthesis and motion capture that was greatly appreciated by Ennio Chiggio of the N Group of Padua. He was admitted to the Berklee College of Music summer courses at the highest level (IV), studying with Jon Damian and Jim Kelly at the Umbria Jazz Festival. At the Gershwin school in Padua, he attended a specialization course with the jazz singer Alessia Obino.

He reads on to hear Tolo Marton's critique of Fik!

Photography by Sven Lambert, Berliner Morgenpost

Photography by Stefano Cosi

"When you realize that your foot is tapping the rhythm and you feel like singing it means that the music is entering your soul, Federico Ficarra is one of those performers who makes you feel these emotions..."

Andrea D’Addio - Berlino Cacio e Pepe

Federico Ficarra, in art Fik. Italia. Foto by Stefano Cosi.

Photography by Stefano Cosi

“His songs confirm the idea I have of his musical approach, imbued with a sensitivity free from particular influences. A lot of expressiveness and a relaxation that does not hurt. Basically he is a person who sees and plays music with his own perspective, whatever it is, and this is not only positive, but also rare these days.”

Tolo Marton is the greatest rock guitarist in Italy according to Repubblica.

Always him in reference to the album Pissin'around released in October 2020:

"It seems to me a very good album, different and with interesting insights!"

Marton collaborated with Ian Paice, Roger Glover, and Don Airey of Deep Purple and received the Jimi Hendrix Electric Guitar Festival Prize in Seattle (USA) directly from James Allen Hendrix, Jimi's father.

Photography by Stefano Cosi

"The street is their stage. Passers-by and Metro travelers are their audience. Berlin's street musicians are anything but amateurs who want to collect their daily tip. Some like Federico attended a conservatory and played in large concert halls.
Berlin is for him just a way station. His plan is to go to the USA."

Lorenz Vossen - Berliner Morgenpost

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BAND

THE BAND!!!

Fik y las Flores Molestas

Fik y las Flores Molestas is the name Federico has chosen to group together the various collaborations in the studio and live, on the streets and in clubs, that have accompanied him in the representation of his music.

Today Fik performs in a trio with Giulio Daniele (drums and vocals) and Fabio Barbaro (bass), and collaborates in the studio with multi-instrumentalists Amedeo Schiavon and Massimo Zago. There is no shortage of featuring with wind instrument players: there are several in the album Pissin'around, and Federico has also organized numerous parades in a marching band in Berlin, Padua and Venice, thus having the opportunity to collect the contacts of many musicians.

Photography by Stefano Cosi

Photography by Stefano Cosi

Photography by Stefano Cosi

Giulio Daniele

Giulio Daniele is an eclectic singer, multi-instrumentalist, composer and producer. He learned tosing and play mostly self-taught, he has never been able to limit himself to a single genre or instrument, but has always approached music with curiosity and a desire to go beyond what was already familiar to him. He currently sings and plays: drums, percussion, electric bass, double bass, guitar and piano. He began singing and playing the piano, flute, or anything that made a sound at a very young age.

At the age of 8 he took keyboard courses at the state school held by Luisa Trovò for a total of 3 years, then he attended, again through the state school, a guitar course under the guidance of Alessandro Nalesso for 2 years. He then took individual drum lessons for 2 years followed by Alessandro Piovan. From there he began to play in numerous bands, including the Giulio Zennaro Experience as a composer, bassist and singer, the Empty Brain, as a co-composer, drummer and singer, then solo singer, winning the Emergenza Festival contest as best emerging band in 2012. He then played for 4 years in Solid Rock, first as a drummer then as a bassist.
In 2013/16 he studied Gregorian chant with Maestro Massimo Bisson. He then graduated in Disciplines of Art, Music and Performance. He refined his knowledge of the electric bass and double bass under the guidance of Marc Abrams in 2016/19 and supported by Maestros such as

Francesco Angiuli, Daniele Santimone, Davide Ragazzoni and Marcello Tonolo.

After the conservatory he devoted himself to learning music production and mixing, and began a career as a busker, performing in the squares of Padua, Ferrara, Milan, Florence, Rome, Rijeka, Krk, Zagreb, Basel, Baden-Baden, Berlin, Rotterdam, Amsterdam, Harwich, Guilford, London, Paris, Lyon, Barcelona and Valencia. Singing and playing guitar as a busker, as well as dedicating himself to production, he developed a more intimate relationship with music, seen not as a gift dedicated to those who understand and appreciate it, but as a good to be shared to establish human relationships and learn about cultures, crossing the nonsense of mental and geographical borders.

Fabio Barbaro

Electric bassist born in 1991, born under the sign of Rock but electrocuted on the road to Damascus by Jazz, he studied at the Gershwin Music School in Padua, at the Thelonious Monk Music School in Mira and at the Padua Conservatory with Masters such as Alessandro Fedrigo, Franco Testa, Giorgio Panagin and Marco Privato, and received private lessons from various professionals.

Lover of all musical genres, over the years he has played with various musical formations in Jazz, Fusion, Rock, Metal, Bossa Nova, Italian and Foreign Pop, Songwriting, Ethnic Music and Partenopean Music groups, playing in various clubs, hotels, events, restaurants, festivals and private parties.