Italian songwriter Massimo Silverio has announced the release of his debut album ‘Hrudja‘ on 24th November on OKUM.
He writes and sings in his native language, a minority language called “carnic” spoken in the Carnic Alps of the Italian region of Friuli Venezia Giulia and parts of Slovenia. Between the charm of the borderland and the tradition of an ancient language, Silverio has created his very personal aesthetic made of poetry and sounds, mixing classic and contemporary, folk and experimental, acoustic, electroacoustic and electronic.
Today he shares first single ‘Nijò‘. He explains: “Many years ago my father saved and developed some negatives found in our hometown containing a series of portraits of people who lived at the beginning of the 20th century, our direct ancestors, people who lived at the time of my grandfather. I felt something. Over the years I browsed through the photos and looked at them deeply, I got lost in them and later I wrote ‘Nijò’ using the language of those faces. “Nijò means ‘nowhere’, a word that my grandfather always said every time I asked: “Dulà vastu, nôno?” (“Where are you going grandfather?”), he replied “in Nijò”‘. Later someone told me that “in Nijò” has a double meaning: “nowhere” but at the same time “everywhere”.
LISTEN TO ‘NIJÒ’ HERE
He continues: “We shot a video in memory of those faces, laying them in places of my country that no longer exist but in which their essence probably still lives. In the present. In Nijò”.
WATCH ‘NIJÒ’ VIDEO HERE
Starting at a very young age, Silverio has created an imaginary world made of places, mountains and rivers, faces and ancient rituals translated into music through the use of classical instruments such as the cello, double bass, prepared percussion, piano and folk ones such as the guzla (instrument of the Dinaric Alps), but also synthesizers, guitars, organs and above all the voice which becomes the guide with its light and intimate timbre, mixing Carnic and English to tell a minority yet universal story.
The album, produced by Manuel Volpe (Rhabdomantic Orchestra) with the participation of Nicholas Remondino (Lamie, Stefano Battaglia, Vieri Cervelli Montel) is entitled “Hrudja” and will be released by Okum on 24th November 2023.
PRE-ORDER DEBUT ALBUM ‘HRUDJA’ HERE
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