Agostino Romeo, an Italian-born Swiss drummer, Agodrummer called himself on Facebook, left us on September 28, 2012.
We knew him because he was eternally present in the bacterial community with his videos, his comments on videos of other drummers.
He was there.
And he's still there, even though an incurable disease has taken away his body.
We remember the positivity and joviality, always in a joking tone replicated and commented in the bacterial field until a few days before the event that, unfortunately, unites all the exponents of the human race, together with birth.
We asked his wife Franca Monti to be able to tell the story of Agodrummer, and she agreed, though destroyed by grief, to tell the life of Ago as a Musician and as a man, two months after his departure.
Thank you Franca and thank you Augustine for crossing your life with ours.
Gigi Morello
AGOSTINO ROMEO was born in Trapani on 9/12.1950, a period when Europe emerged from the darkness of the Second World War.
In these years different musical styles are imposed, very popular in America and landed in Europe thanks to some soldiers from across the Ocean stationed in Italy, France, Germany. Many Italian musicians were trained by listening, observing and repeating what they heard and saw by those who had their fate found themselves serving in Europe.
Augustine was among those who seized the stimulus and ideas of this first experience. Then came the Beatles with their innovative, sweet and scratchy sound at the same time. Augustine, thanks to his father Mario, who, given his passion, signed promissory note to be able to offer his son the instrument of the heart, already at fourteen years old is among those who animate the evenings of Trapani, Wounded but fair city, on whose summer nights the sound of a clarinet , of a saxophone battery, silence the pain of a people: there is a strong desire for freedom and the future is not far away.
Augustine chose the drums, like many of his peers, but his talent allows him to run and overcome the difficulties that each instrument entails. At first as a self-taught, he later understood the need to learn from a master, but the talent and opportunities are such that in a short time he sails to Africa, the countries of Northern Europe, he knows the whole of the Old Continent working, or rather, playing and creating, with and for numerous ensembles with which he bastes the canvas of his musical grammar.
The battery, it was said: this instrument enters the cultural fabric, into the living flesh of Augustine, so much so that his dedication to this magnificent instrument will become, at times, almost an obsession. His "bulimia" of knowledge for the music of the second half of the twentieth century, especially popular (pop, jazz, funk, rock, jazz-rock, salsa, latin, etc.), are increasingly the sound vocabulary through which Augustine expresses if himself and his worldview. A sunny and sociable soul, Augustine has always put friendship and the sharing of knowledge before the ego, creating around him an atmosphere of sincere curiosity for everything "scented" of music and sound. 
In this sense it is possible to find in some of the many students, that spirit of openness and research that have marked its musical journey.
Augustine has always spent words of encouragement for the young musicians who were lucky enough to meet him and gather his suggestions.
Until the last days of his life, his narrative, his life, were punctuated by the precise and never trivial rhythm of his thinking. Even those who saw him in the last moments of his life, he was able to share a free spirit and still fascinated by the drums, so much so that, although weak and sore, a week before he died, he still sat behind his magnificent instrument with which went through the best years of his life.
We thank Augustine for the human warmth and for the many moments he has given us in this strange world.
Franca Monti
Wife, Fan, Friend
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