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This front-page and inside-page article published by the Berliner Morgenpost represents the highest international recognition received by Fik. Discover the story, explore the world of the band, and stay updated on upcoming concerts by visiting our website!

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

I had some thoughts before listening, some remnants of the day, but then during Play + Rec’s Dadaist tracklist, everything vanished. To really understand this duo, though, you have to start from their idea of music and their instruments.

Stefano Cosi strikes his Caisa Drum, a sort of Hang Drum, into which he inserts a ping pong ball if necessary. Then, besides recording his boisterous laughter, he plays the drums, a distorted cello, a Kalimba Sansula with built-in Wah Wah, and an instrument that imitates the sound of the wind. Federico Ficarra, on the other hand, picks 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 their approach), and ambient (as instrumental tracks without singing).

Some passages may 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 isn’t a more right or better moment than another to press play on this album. Because there is always a thought to chase away. Of course, if you want, you can press Rec on your reactions."

Francesco Carrubba - RockIt Magazine

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

Ten tracks (including a cover) make up a structured, organic listening proposal, with interesting (and unusual) layers: the album, as the protagonists themselves say, explores new sounds, suggesting the intention to challenge themselves and leave behind creative fields already widely explored. It is natural to find episodes in the tracklist that gravitate between pop and alternative, then suddenly veer towards afro, samba, and surf rock sounds: everything is blended together through the steady and attentive hand of the artists directly involved, both in the recording sessions and in the post-production file lab.

Time in the company of Fik y las Flores Molestas passes quickly and lightly, thanks to careful choices and the push of healthy enthusiasm, far from comfortable solutions and trendy styles for the vast majority of record products. Positioning themselves in the alternative scene with a release like this is significant, and bringing “Primavera” to as many people as possible will make it possible to make the leap in quality and achieve important artistic growth."

Giandomenico Piccolo - Rockit Magazine

As the first leaves began to turn yellow, we started playing "Pissin'around" by Las Flores Molestas and, miraculously, autumn suddenly became just a mirage. Credit goes to the band from Padua, who with their load of colorful Latin jazz'n'roll made us forget the first chills of the season and embraced them with tropical rhythms and the sunshine of good music. This is a truly well-played album in which you can hear, practically in every single harmonic passage, how much fun the band members had recording it. Take the second track, "Hakuna Matata!" and tell us if you too, around 1:15, didn't feel the urge to get up from your chair and start dancing in the living room.

Here, in our opinion, this aspect of the extreme sociability of Padua's music is perhaps their greatest merit: this is an album to listen to in company, maybe even better with a group of friends or, why not, even among strangers who in the end always end up knowing each other.

After all, music serves above all to create bonds, and "Pissin'around" is certainly a great help in this. Special mention goes to the final track, "At the Station Intimate Version," which revealed to us a more romantic and tormented side of Las Flores Molestas, one we would like to explore in their future works.

Mattia Nesto - RockIt Magazine

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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 final of the Je So Pazzo competition, and was also selected along with other tracks from the album for the national semifinal of the Premio Lucio Dalla competition; the first single Stranger ranked first in the national independent rap trap chart.

Fik lived in Berlin for 4 years: he played (guitar and vocals) in several very famous clubs such as SO36 (David Bowie was acclaimed by both the audience and musicians for taking the stage at the height of his Berlin period), Insomnia-Nightclub, Brunnen70, Kit Kat Klub (Liza Minnelli, the venue where the Love Parade was born) where he directed a festival he created 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 was invited twice to play at Yorckschlösschen Home of Jazz & Blues. The main newspaper Berliner Morgenpost dedicated an article to him with a photo on the front page 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 Hotel Moresco and a few months at the Carlton Hotel on the Grand Canal, restaurant, and Top Of The Carlton Sky Lounge. With his band and previous groups (blues and jazz) he played in many venues in Padua (ex-Mame, now Parco della Musica, Caffè Pedrocchi, Palazzo Zuckermann, Osteria Barabba, Pedro and many others), Venice (Hard Rock Café, 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 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 Festival. 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, particularly comedy and improvisation, and worked with well-known directors and actors from the Teatro Verdi in Padua and the Piccolo Teatro in Milan: Lorenzo Maragoni and Giorgio Sangati. Fik obtained the Theory and Solfeggio License with Maestro S. Lanza, and 2 degree diplomas, one in “Music Informatics and Sound Design” (in particular studying classical piano with Maestro G. Di Toma), the other recently in “Jazz Guitar” studying with Maestros M. Tonolo (jazz piano, arrangement), D. Santimone (guitar) and F. Angiuli (ensemble music, history), both with top marks at the Cesare Pollini Conservatory of Padua; here he created, together with Alvise Vidolin, sound director of Luigi Nono, an audio installation with binaural synthesis and motion capture highly appreciated by Ennio Chiggio of the Gruppo N of Padua. He was admitted to the summer courses of the Berklee College of Music 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 an advanced course with jazz singer Alessia Obino.

Keep reading to hear Tolo Marton's review of Fik!

Photograph 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 doesn't hurt. Basically, he is a person who sees and plays music from his own perspective, whatever that may be, and this is not only positive, but also rare these days.”

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

Again, referring to the album Pissin'around released in October 2020:

"It seems to me an excellent album, different and with interesting ideas!"

Marton has 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.

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"The street is their stage. Passersby and Metro travelers are their audience. Berlin's street musicians are anything but amateurs looking to collect their daily tips. Some, like Federico, have attended a conservatory and played in major concert halls.
For him, Berlin is just an intermediate stop. His plan is to go to the United States."

Lorenz Vossen - Berliner Morgenpost

Photograph by Stefano Cosi

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

Andrea D’Addio - Berlino Cacio e Pepe

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Fik y las Flores Molestas

Fik y las Flores Molestas is the name that Federico chose to group together the various collaborations in the studio and live, on the street and in clubs, that have accompanied him in representing his music.

Today Fik performs as 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 collaborations with wind instruments: there are several in the album Pissin'around, and Federico has also organized numerous marching band parades in Berlin, Padua, and Venice, thus having the opportunity to collect the contacts of many musicians.

Giulio Daniele

Giulio Daniele is an eclectic singer, multi-instrumentalist, composer and producer. He learned to sing and play mainly as a self-taught musician, he has never managed to limit himself to just one 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 started singing and playing the piano, the flute, or anything that produced a sound from 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 with Alessandro Piovan. From there he started playing in numerous bands, including the Giulio Zennaro Experience as composer, bassist and singer, the Empty Brain, as co-composer, drummer and singer, then solo singer, winning the Emergenza Festival competition as best emerging band in 2012. He then played for 4 years in Solid Rock, first as drummer then as bassist.
In 2013/16 he studied Gregorian chant with Maestro Massimo Bisson. He then graduated in Arts, Music and Performing Arts. He perfected his knowledge of electric bass and double bass under the guidance of Marc Abrams in 2016/19 and with the support of Maestros such as

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

After the conservatory he dedicated 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 in order to establish human relationships and get to know cultures, crossing the nonsense of mental and geographical boundaries.

Fabio Barbaro

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

Passionate about all musical genres, over the years he has played with various musical groups in Jazz, Fusion, Rock, Metal, Bossa Nova, Italian and Foreign Pop, Singer-songwriter, Ethnic Music, and Neapolitan Music groups, performing in various clubs, hotels, events, restaurants, festivals, and private parties.