Two years after the acclaimed debut “Hrudja”, Massimo Silverio returned with “Sorgjâl”, a 10-minute suite that lays the groundwork for the Carnia artist’s second solo work.

In Silverio’s music, contemporary and popular intertwine in an unprecedented seamlessness where post-rock, trip-hop and electronic experimentation meet folk sung in Cjarniel – a minority language of the Carnic Alps.

In Cjarniel, the “Sorgjâl” is the dry, severed stem of the maize plant, what remains of it after the harvest. It is a symbol of the interrupted, of what is rotten. The new song is a song/prayer born of urgency, of the blackness encrusted, hidden and concealed in every voice. It is the Shadow that would like to be the highest plant and dwell higher than any other voice, any other prayer, and that towers over the severed purity claiming it as the mother of its intentions, but that cannot listen to the lament of life except when its echo has died out. The Shadow that believes itself to be reason in the deepest naivety.

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