C.F.F. e il Nomade Venerabile

e il Nomade Venerabile is an Italian alternative rock band formed in 1999 in Gioia del Colle (Bari, Apulia).

[1][2] The group’s debut on disc took place with the mini-CD Presa diretta, a radio live performance recorded in 2002 during the Vitamine program of Controradio in Bari.

In December 2006 they began to collaborate with the dance theater company Res Extensa of Anna Moscatelli[7] and Elisa Barucchieri[8] (dancer and choreographer who has collaborated with artists such as Susanne Linke, Franco Battiato, Carolyn Carlson) and released the second album Circostanze (Otium Records / Tre Lune Records).

[9][10] The tour starts from the Villaggio Globale of Rome and continues with 40 dates, including participation in the Festival Pigro, a tribute to Ivan Graziani, at the Municipal Theater of Teramo.

[12][13] The third album Lucidinervi (Otium Records / Compagnia Nuove Indye)[14][15] was released in 2009, featuring some of the main exponents of Italian independent music such as Paolo Benvegnù in the song Amore,[16] Franz Goria (Fluxus, Petrol), Umberto Palazzo of Santo Niente (in Un jour noir, a song that reinterprets Baudelaire's poetry Spleen), Paolo Archetti Maestri and Fabio Martino from Yo Yo Mundi (in the Fabrizio De André cover "Ho visto Nina volare"[17]).

Lucidinervi is also reviewed on the pages of Il Mucchio Selvaggio (September 2009) and supported by a tour divided between festivals[18] and music clubs.

In the summer of 2011 they are rewarded by the artistic direction of the Valle Ofanto Festival in Margherita di Savoia with the Special Prize Matteo Salvatore, in collaboration with Club Tenco.

the electro-acoustic EP Al cuore (Maxsound Records),[25] followed by a tour of about thirty dates and reviewed by Classic Rock Lifestyle - Italia.

[26] The jury is made up of Massimo Cotto (Virgin Radio), Giancarlo Governi (RAI), Andrea Scanzi (Il Fatto Quotidiano).

In 2015 they release the album Canti notturni (Maxsound Records / Audioglobe),[27][28] supported by a crowdfunding campaign on Musicraiser, produced by Max Carola (chief engineer in Capri Digital Studios, working with Aerosmith, INXS, Roxette, Banco del Mutuo Soccorso...) and featuring Roberto Angelini,[29] the son of Vittorio Camardese's partner.

From the single Come fiori dedicated to the boxer Johann Wilhelm Trollmann "Rukeli"[30] is born the theathral show My Inv(f)erno... gypsy life, directed by Maurizio Vacca,[31][32][33] illustrated by the cartoonist Valerio Pastore,[34] that opens the X edition of the International TeatroLab Festival at the Tagliavini theater in Novellara in March 2019.

C.F.F. e il Nomade Venerabile in 2008, photo by Daniela Errico
C.F.F. e il Nomade Venerabile in 2009, photo by Rosa Paolicelli
C.F.F. e il Nomade Venerabile in 2010