Oral_Abyssal 2LPs

2LP Edition.

Silvia has new songs. Three years have passed since her last album of original songs, Toda la vida, un día (Sony Music Spain, 2023). The artist usually combines albums of original songs, where beyond her voice she shares her compositional imagination, with cover albums in collaboration with other artists, in which she explores the free singing animal and champions the creative act of interpreting.

This spring brings her new album of original songs.

Oral_Abisal is a dual album. Two textures are explored here: origin and search; wood and metal; flesh and bone; warmth and abyss; hand and infinity; pink and blue…

Oral [pink] is home, is song, is table, is collective singing, is the love story, is the mother, is the woman, is heartbreak and flower. Compositionally, it is built on more complex but luminous harmonies, with strings, voice, and guitar as main elements; drums also appear.

Abyssal [blue] is the search, is the deep, the dreamlike, introspective singing, crystal, the seas, the unknown, the nights. Musically, it is broader, deeper, fewer chords, more cyclical, more fluid. The main element here is brass: horns; transverse flutes also appear.

Oral_Abisal is a swing between the known and the unknown; between where we come from and where we would like to go: “If you don’t want to get lost, always think in spirals, remember where you come from and you will heal all your ills.” This duality arises from a constant search, from investigating extremes to find the grays, the points of connection, the fluid, the water, the voice. A search that already began in Género imposible, a show that became a song a few years ago. “Naming is impossible” (there is no good or bad, no up or down, no sides or edges, no limits or center…) Sílvia returns to produce, and in this search, she has tried to work with two spaces, without losing the sponginess in the sound. In Oral it is a real, palpable space; Abyssal is a cathedral of different times and spaces, with new textures, new creatures, all the seas, where no edges are visible.

Elena Córdoba, magician of movement, anatomy, and poetry, “who with her lucid vision has helped me understand the curve of my journey, our journey,” says: “This album has something of a gentle leap between the coldness of the abyss and the warmth of a mouth. For a long time, Silvia has sung to erase boundaries, to make them porous like membranes, and that search is one of the currents that I believe runs through Oral_Abisal. This work mixes categories and antagonisms, traveling from metals to lips, from wood to thirst, as if everything were made of the same matter, because in reality everything is made of the same matter, and Silvia knows it.”