Silvio Mauro
Amanti eroi

LA RECENSIONE

SILVIO MAURO - Amanti eroi

(Self-produced)

Amanti eroi is the title of Silvio Mauro's first album, debuting with a profound work produced with extreme care.

The album consists of eleven tracks that trace the evolution of a relationship between two people, amidst hopes, illusions, dismay, and silences—a relationship that draws heavily from a personal story but is easily shareable by everyone.

Questo effetto opens the record with a stylistically harsh atmosphere, starting with a simple acoustic guitar, accompanied by percussion and essential bass lines, closing with an almost bluesy solo.

The atmosphere changes as soon as the melodious acoustic guitar of Vetri d’alcol enters, a singer-songwriter-style song dominated by a faint, almost whispered singing, continuously building ready to explode and become rock by the end.

Posa le tue armi continues in the same style, intensifying in mood, even more disenchanted. It speaks of couple conflicts, pride, and distancing.

I tuoi sentimenti and La tua visione talk about relationships through two very different styles, the first through a very aggressive rock, showing awareness, while the second in a much slower, melancholic, and painful manner, conveys suffering.

Occhi is instead the most experimental and sophisticated track of the album, where the guitars echo accompanied by minimalist drums, all set against the backdrop of poetic, almost recited spoken word, that bursts at the end into post-rock followed by a sort of artist's "scream".

With Io e Martina, the spoken word continues, anguished, but this time followed by more "classical" guitars, while with A Roma non dimenticherai it returns to a simpler and lighter singer-songwriter style.

In You Make Me Feel Better, Mauro experiments with composing in English, resulting in a harsh track but with room for improvement.

Cambiamento and Cominciare close the album with a more marked sense of peace and tranquility, a tenderness that was missing and helps to make everything sweeter.