Shablothe review of the new album, Manifestedited by Alvise Salerno.
I made a trip to my mind, one of those who dig and remain inside forever.
I have been to a desert with a group of people and, between one trip and another, at one point we lost in a storm of sudden sand, where only the Tuaregs know how to find the right way to get out without problems.
After days and days lost in this desert and without the possibility of escaping it, suddenly, here is the salvation: an oasis that appears from nothing and that makes you say “finally something good. Waterfall!”.
I start quenching and finding refreshment, smile, I'm happy and everything is fine. I know that still the way home, towards salvation, is unknown, but at least I managed to recover the forces to continue and to start the fight against adverse fate again.
Here, move this imaginary journey to reality and here the elements begin to take shape and substance: the journey is listening to new songs, the desert is Italian music, the days to wander without construct are the Friday of the new releases, the Tuaregs are the records and the artists without ideas, and the Oasis is the new album by Shablo.
Now let's really start the journey, the real one, through this (almost) time of beautiful music and we understand what it wants to tell us about the good Pablo (real name of Shablo) with his own Manifest.
Shablo: Knowing music and explode it in the heart and mind
The producer has more than 25 years of career behind him, a sufficient period to understand that we are not talking about an improvised one who appears out of nowhere to put together two agreements and four singers who give him a status.
Shablo It is the status and it is clear, listening to its new album, that the intention was to reiterate it and with the right dose of “Dumbledore Cazzimma”.
Sanremolast February, was the beginning of a path that turned and found its evolution day after day without proclamations, without limestone. He let things happen and did well, arriving at the Independent Day prepared and ready for anything.
Chiara intention: let's make it clear how music is made in 2025 by combining past, present and future in the best possible way possible and without frills, without superstructures and without all that plastic world that reigns sovereign in Italy.
From here 17 songs are born which are the real manifesto of a 360 ° artist who gives himself to music and who sink into music.
R&B, rap, hip-hop, soul, jazz, pop, reggaeton and billions of other things change the change as if we were witnessing a 4 × 100 to the Olympics, with his captain, Shablo in fact, which covers the role of Marcell Jacobs And he leads his to the gold medal.
17 songs where the truth, the need, the urgency of throwing out ideas and concepts in music stands out which, then, are enhanced by some Italian key figures of the genres mentioned above and everyone makes this album an explosion of joy for the ears, the heart and mind.
Joshua, Mimì, the “dad” torment, the “uncle” Guè. A team of top players in “Manifesto”
Shablo He had the courage and strength to focus on names that, for the general public, mean almost nothing like Joshua And Mimìwith a more than insured future, combining them with rap background columns such as Torment And Guè.
To these names, then, other big names were joined as Inoki And Neffedsome stainless certainties such as Irama, Rkomi, Joan Thiele, Nayt, Hernia And Gaiaand prospects already of value such as Ele a And Roy Woods.
There is everything you need to be happy from start to finish, to never detach the plug, to keep the threshold of attention high. And it's nice to see how, on balance, all these artistic elements manage to mix so well.
Joshua It is a phenomenon that exploded precisely on the occasion of the Festival and thanks to Shablois a kind of his “prodigal son” with a perfect soul voice for black music, which is very good to tell this universe created in Manifest in practically all the songs.
He is the voice always guides, except in the song of Gaia And Roy Woodsfollowed by that of another pure talent, a diamond that we discovered and saw grow at
X-Factor: Mimì.
The two of them guide the others in terms of the number of songs but, be careful, because both are guided by “dad” Tormenta fundamental element to create the right vibe and the right narrative.
Guè It appears and disappears but, he too, is a key element (among other things in great dusting here) while all the others make the appearances that, however, leave their mark.
Think about Irama in Thousand Problems oa Nayt And Joan Thiele In the beautiful and almost Bossa Nova Cantautoral What story are you?all songs that with other voices would not have made how they did in the end.
A high -level manifesto
Shablo He really created a manifesto, a new way of seeing on Friday, and raised the bar of a record world at the limits of rigor mortis.
Daniel D`Amico for SANREMO.FM
