VETRO (Group)

Rome, Italy / London, UK · SERA / Serafina Ricci, RESPAWN / Kojo Mensah · formed 2025 (working canon) · FARA Records

VETRO are SERA and RESPAWN, an equal Rome-and-London duo joining full classical soprano to drill, drum-and-bass and dubstep without making either register decorative. Glass, rules and fracture become a shared language for asking whether an inherited loop can be rewritten.

An unnamed producer sent each artist the other's unfinished material without asking either to soften their register. SERA answered a bass-system loop with a disciplined sustained line; RESPAWN returned a verse about who authored the loop. Their first joint session kept the seam audible and adopted VETRO as the permanent frame.

SERA carries trained soprano/classical-liturgical register; RESPAWN carries restrained drill/bass cadence and system-breaking perspective. Equal billing.

SERA protects the internal logic of tradition; RESPAWN tests whether that logic still serves the person inside it. Their sixteen-year age gap changes perspective, not status.

Build two complete registers before combining them. The seam remains audible; neither sound is used as exotic decoration. Every piece must contain one point where a rule is named and one where its consequence is tested.

A transparent central plane divides and reflects both performers until the final section changes what can pass through it. Equal brightness, no historical opera costume and no tactical drill styling.

Contemporary Rome stone and glass against London night buses, server-room magenta and wet pavement; fracture patterns remain material, not melodramatic shattering.