Italian drummer, composer and sound artist Nicolas Remondino announces the release of his new album Hìeratico, a work that delves into the borderlands between ritual, abstraction and contemporary experimental music. The record presents a radical reimagining of the drum set and percussion as an autonomous sound-world, where pulse, noise and silence continuously collide and reconfigure. On Hìeratico, Remondino treats rhythm as a living architecture rather than a mere time-keeping device, building pieces that move like shifting sculptures: precise yet unstable, ascetic yet fiercely physical. Across the album, he expands the drum kit through prepared objects, extended techniques and subtle electronics, carving out an atmosphere that feels at once ancient and hyper-modern.

“The idea behind Hìeratico was to work with the drum set as if it were a choir or an ensemble,” says Remondino. “Instead of thinking in ‘beats’, I started from breath, gesture and resonance, letting patterns emerge slowly until they take on a sort of ceremonial intensity.” The album unfolds as a sequence of sonic rites, where sparse, hieratic figures grow into dense polyrhythmic storms before dissolving back into detail and grain. Metallic resonances, rubbed skins and distant hums coexist with sudden eruptions of energy, drawing a line between free improvisation, contemporary composition and electroacoustic research. The result is a listening experience that rewards close attention, inviting the audience inside the micro-structures of sound.

Known for his work in the fields of improvised and adventurous music, Remondino has developed a distinctive language on drums and percussion, informed by jazz, noise, minimalism and sound art. With Hìeratico, he pushes this language further, focusing on form and space as much as on impact, and crafting an album that feels deeply personal yet open-ended.