“Instability is the key to understanding this album. Of feeling out of place everywhere, a stranger to everything and everyone. It was written in the first person and, yes, it is nothing more than the long confession of a sometimes "blurry" life. I wanted to summarize this in the title. Everything was written long before the pandemic, everything was recorded during forced confinement, as if it were a confession metabolized by sounds. It all seemed too unfinished, disjointed, incoherent, unstable. Looking at it through the lenses of concreteness it seemed blurry, it blurred my vision. My Blurry Life couldn't be a new work, because it didn't seem to be anything, just a sequence of images out of place, unstable, extraneous to everything. My person was fragmented, doubly exposed to a background that rarely looked like landscape. Music has contained and recomposed, it has been a refuge for different moods, it has made the songs the distillate of a time spent collecting the remains, a glass on which the fog has condensed into singular drops, made of the same material. Eight songs that swallowed me up, leaving me powerless but which, after learning to walk on their own, immediately reclaimed their space.”
credits
releases December 1, 2023

Written, produced, engineered and mixed by Marco Giambrone
Recorded and mixed in my home studio – San Giovanni Gemini
Mastered by Giovanni Versari at La Maestà – Tredozio
“Crime” written by Marco Giambrone, Caterina Fede, Alfonso De Marco

Marco Giambrone: Vocals, guitars, drums, piano, vibes, balalaika, synth, noises
Caterina Fede: Vocals, organs, synth, autoharp, noises
Alfonso De Marco: Bass guitar
Marcella Riccardi: Vocals on “Broken Pictures”, vocals and electric guitars on “Three Veils”.
Andrea Serrapiglio: Cello, viola
Luca Serrapiglio: Tenor and baritone sax, clarinet

Photographs by Marco Giambrone
Layout Gianluca Militello

Already an active member of Sicilian bands Marlowe and Nazarin, in 2012 photographer, painter and musician Marco Giambrone started his own project “Silent Carnival”: a journey where drones, songwriting, fragile melodies, noise and silence combine and collide with one another in an intimate and sparse sonic landscape. After a mini-tour along with Carla Bozulich and John Eichenseer, in which some of the new songs were premiered, by August 2013 Silent Carnival recorded its self-titled debut, then released in October 2014 via Viceversa Records and Old Bicycle Records. In addition to band members and constant collaborators Alfonso De Marco (Marlowe) on percussion and Caterina Fede on organ/synth, the recording sessions were also joined by multi-instrumentalist John Eichenseer, (Evangelista, John Zorn, Spool), jazz musician Gianni Gebbia (sax) and cellist Andrea Serrapiglio (Evangelista). SC has since toured Europe, sharing the stage with Carla Bozulich, Amen Dunes, Alasdair Roberts, Opal Onyx among others. In August 2015 SC went back to the recording studio for its sophomore album, “Drowning At Low Tide”. It is a collection of bleeding songs about hate, love of revenge and frustration, all mixed together within a disturbed yet minimal dark-folk atmosphere. Once again, SC has recruited many friends contributing to the recordings, including Carla Bozulich (vocals on “Flood”), John Eichenseer (viola on “Sick”), Matteo Uggeri and Andrea Serrapiglio.
"Silent Carnival" was released on October 24 2014.
The song “Existence” was part of the compilation that goes with the issue of may 2014 of the berliner magazine Occulto.