Rkomithe review of decreasing.his new album released in May 2025.
Rkomi is back with the new album decreasing.published a few years after the previous record project Taxi driver and from that, a little more difficult to analyze (but we will get to the next lines), with Irama.
Rkomi It is the name of art but this decreasing. It is not his, but that of Mirko Martorana from Calvairate. It is not a specification recently but, indeed, it is the fundamental one to understand immediately that we are not faced with a simple album with simple songs.
Decreasing. It means making a journey into Mirko's life, of a child who had to face moments that defining difficult is an understatement and who, growing up, had to learn to live with rancor, resentment, shortcomings, suffering.
Telling each other and getting naked, Rkomi's 'decreasing' – the review
Listening to these 50 minutes by album is a complex operation, you cannot underestimate even a comma of this real session by the psychologist where Mirko He is the patient and we are there, to listen and understand trying to help in silence.
Finding a life story in the ears, not only songs, is something that Italian music is no longer used to and if, then, this story starts from an abandonment and continues with violence and difficulty immense then you really have to sit and be as shown.
This of Rkomi It is a need, an relief and I strongly doubt that every single studio recording has not foreseen tears and fronte at the mere thought of throwing so intimate and personal thoughts out of thoughts.
Perhaps one does not realize that this boy has put his entire existence in our hands so far, he decided to trust those who listen to him and, gracefully, asked us for the effort to understand him.
How did we get to this point?
Soon said: often wrong choices or unexpected thuds (not results in the short one, of course, but of development in the long journey) as, precisely, the joint album with Irama or experience as a judge a X Factor. All things that, yes, certainly enriched him as a professional and who showed us a man with different facets but who, on balance, have removed him from a path that with Taxi driver It seemed to be clear and constantly rising.
Here, the chapter Taxi driver It was the total watershed because from there it began, paradoxically, the “violent decreasing”.
The first Sanremothat of Unsurpassed and flexions on stage with Amadeushad brought a Rkomi Fully aware of the fact that the rap was no longer represented it as in the past and that pop rock should become the way to follow.
He tried and stopped us, perhaps taken on the counterattack by the excessive mainstream wave that hit him and who, equally perhaps, had not foreseen so powerful.
It was necessary to stop and start from yourself, from your origins, from your experience and do it by putting every single aspect on the field, even the most traumatic, of your childhood and adolescence.
A confession album
Open the album with The last infidelity It is a no small act of strength, to close it with So small It's how to say “Here, now you know everything. You know why I'm so”.
A journey that Mirko It doesn't do it alone. There are friends, true friends like Hernia, Izi, Nayt, Tedua, Bresh And they are all functional to tell the various aspects of the life of Rkomi through their experiences.
Listen 10 seconds with Nayt It makes you understand what is the path taken without anyone who indicates the road, Orphans with Izi It is the explanation of what it means to grow without a parent, Poison with Hernia Analyzes a toxic relationship and seems almost obvious it is a figure who has done and is part of the television environment (the reference to Canale 5 would lead to Paola Di Benedetto But there are no certainties).
The album is everything like this, full of lived life and expressive needs. It matters little about streaming, virality, gold and platinum records. It only matters to let off steam, let go of consciousness and put it in the hands of the listeners.
A personal recognition
For a long time there has been a work of devaluation towards this boy and, sincerity, he wants, in this work there are also those who write these lines.
It was not easy, last January before Sanremounderstand immediately The rhythm of things. Complicated at first impact, almost “useless” for the purposes of competition and with a not easy to understand melody.
I was wrong, I was very wrong because the text of that song is the best thing that this festival gave us and, unfortunately, having listened to the song the first time in a context like that of a huge Rai studio in Sempione did not make him understand immediately.
The pen of Rkomitogether with those of the guests/friends on the album, is among the best of his generation and beyond. The songs contained in this album make him understand, they exudate to reality and truth, and it is never easy for an artist to be able to give himself in this way with a lexical construction of a certain type and way.
A thousand phrases contained in every single song could be mentioned but, perhaps, what makes the idea most is the initial opening phrase of decrease:
“When my mother's partner is not the words I was nine years old and I was already learning to hate.”
At the end of the album, then, the circle closes with a song (So small) which is a further cross -section of his life, telling the consequences of everything he has lived as a child:
“My gaps drowned in a white wine. There are 29, almost 30 and the air I breathe rely on substances that I can't resist”.
Rkomi It is not for everyone, this has been known for years, e Mirko We had never known him in all probability. That moment would come, sooner or later, and it came with this that more than being an album is a real outburst.
This was our review of decreasing. Of Rkomi but This album is the story of Mirko Martorana, it is not Rkomi's album.
Daniel D`Amico for SANREMO.FM
