SILENT CARNIVAL - Liminal

It's been a linear journey, the one that has led the Silent Carnival project from their self-titled debut to "Liminal", a gradual development oriented towards a more intimate dimension, an increasingly direct writing style, free of unnecessary ornamentation. A territory where silence carries as much weight as sound and merges with it to express the full range of emotions of one's own experience. The evanescence of dreams and the weight of memories are still perceptible presences in Giambrone's music, but the threshold suggested here is made above all of concreteness, of sonic density.

Electronics remain a founding element, even though they now move to the margins, adding emphasis through their measured nuances, seeping into the slowly expanding electroacoustic melodies. Deep tolling sounds carve their way through the darkness to shape an aching substrate over which a whispered vocal glides, speaking of pain and gratitude, of acceptance and moving on.

As usual, Giambrone isn't alone: joining him is the ever-faithful bass of Alfonso De Marco, while Marcella Ricciardi/BeMyDelay returns after already appearing on the previous "My Blurry Life", and Cesare Basile also takes part.

The sonic matrix is a dark-toned folk streaked with psych touches, a practice that fuses the hypnotic shadows of Black Heart Procession's folk-blues ("Daze") with the crepuscular songwriting of Matt Elliott ("November"), often converging towards a Mediterranean-toned slowcore with Low lodged at its heart ("Clouds"), while always remaining a full expression of a wholly personal signature. An essential vocabulary, into which Ricciardi's lap steel fits magnificently on the mesmerizing "Song For A Mirror", just as Basile's contribution proves precious on "Vertige". All of it comes together to create an emotional landscape offered up with every possible filter stripped away. Touching.

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29/01/2026