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Independent press and the difficulty of reading a debut that refuses closure
I didn’t approach In via di sviluppo expecting resistance. Most debut albums, even those that claim to avoid definition, ultimately ask to be framed. They might complicate genre, blur authorship, or stretch form, but they still cooperate with the basic ritual of reception: identify the sound, locate the references, draw a trajectory.
By The Global Verge19 days ago in Journal
A debut that refuses exposure: Piergiorgio Corallo and the anatomy of a first step
Piergiorgio Corallo did not step into music. He emerged from it the way some objects are found rather than made. Before In via di sviluppo, his name circulated quietly in Italian visual circuits: painter, sculptor, photographer — someone for whom matter has always mattered more than exposure. The shift into sound was not a conversion but an extension, the same gesture of removal and incision carried into another frequency.
By The Global Vergeabout a month ago in Journal
Piergiorgio Corallo — In via di sviluppo (out November 10)
There are debuts that sound like a starting gun, and others that arrive quietly, almost by accident. In via di sviluppo, the first album by Italian musician and visual artist Piergiorgio Corallo, belongs to the second kind. It doesn’t shout. It unfolds. On November 10 2025, through CD Baby, Corallo releases a record that feels lived-in, built over years of sketches, guitars, and the long silence that comes before you finally decide something is ready.
By The Global Verge2 months ago in Journal
“Non si vede”: an Italian alt-rock track becomes the heartbeat of Berlin’s raw adolescence
When Italian musician and visual artist Piergiorgio Corallo released “Non si vede”, few could have imagined the song would travel north and return transformed — refracted through the lens of a German filmmaker capturing the restless adolescence of Berlin’s margins.
By The Global Verge3 months ago in Journal
The Men — Piergiorgio Corallo’s human landscapes at the Museum für Fotografie, Berlin
Berlin, September 18–29, 2025. At the Museum für Fotografie, Italian painter Piergiorgio Corallo presented Gli uomini (The Men), a cycle of paintings that reinterprets European expressionism through a Mediterranean sense of structure and restraint. The exhibition, part of the museum’s autumn program dedicated to contemporary figurative languages, quickly became one of the most visited solo shows of the season.
By The Global Verge3 months ago in Journal
Cybernetic Boy — Piergiorgio Corallo’s digital alter ego
There’s a reason certain songs feel like mirrors. They don’t flaunt virtuosity; they hold it back. They don’t drown you in metaphors; they choose a few sharp images and let them echo. “Ragazzo cibernetico,” from Piergiorgio Corallo’s project 'In via di sviluppo', is one of those pieces—an electronic rock miniature that uses economy as a form of clarity.
By The Global Verge3 months ago in Journal
When music genres collide
Albums used to live within borders. They were defined by genre, expectation, and the kind of fidelity that kept rock guitars on one side and drum machines on the other. But the best contemporary records — the ones that stay in your bloodstream — are those that blur those borders, crossing soundscapes the way cities blend languages at dawn.
By The Global Verge3 months ago in Journal
The painter who brought a guitar: on multidisciplinary artists and the case of Piergiorgio Corallo
Every few years, the conversation returns: can one artist be credible in more than one field? The suspicion is oddly durable—especially when the second field is painting. Yet the history is crowded with musicians who reached for brushes not as a hobby but as a continuation of their listening. If sound is time made visible on a DAW screen, painting is time convinced to hold still. Piergiorgio Corallo enters this lineage not as a dilettante but as someone who composes with a visual brain; the album title In via di sviluppo already reads like a gallery placard: in progress, under radiation, caught mid-becoming.
By The Global Verge3 months ago in Journal
Where Corallo's “Non si vede” lands in the family tree of Heavy & Alternative Rock
There’s a moment in “Non si vede” when the guitars stop behaving like furniture and start behaving like weather. Not just overdrive in a rectangular pattern, but a force that pushes air, pulls against the drums, and drags the vocal line across the bar like a magnet under a table. That sensation—the kind of muscular pressure you feel in your ribcage before you parse words—is the real ancestral signature here. It connects Piergiorgio Corallo’s track to a family tree that runs from Deep Purple’s highway engines to Verdena’s humid fog, cutting across American and Italian dialects of heaviness.
By The Global Verge3 months ago in Journal
Between Future and Fractures: the britpop heart of Piergiorgio Corallo’s “In via di sviluppo”
When a debut record sounds like both a confession and an architectural sketch, something rare happens: form and feeling collapse into one another. 'In via di sviluppo', the first full-length by italian multidisciplinary artist Piergiorgio Corallo, lives inside that collision. It’s a rock album that distrusts certainty, borrowing britpop’s melodic clarity only to distort it through an existential lens.
By The Global Verge3 months ago in Journal
A room built outward: listening to 'In via di sviluppo'
There are debuts that arrive like press conferences. This one walks in and sits down. 'In via di sviluppo' keeps its shoulders narrow, lets arrangement do the talking, and asks you to listen rather than react. Guitars are placed like walls, electronics run along the baseboards, and the voice keeps a straight line through the middle. If you wait for spectacle, you’ll miss the point. The surprise isn’t volume; it’s patience.
By The Global Verge3 months ago in Journal
