In ‘Gabor ’25,’ Luigi Porto cracks open the shell of family mythology and lets memory spill out in sound and light.

Think of this less as a song and more as a séance. Composed originally for his 2021 album ‘Tell Uric,’ where it appeared in spectral form through the voice of Nefer Alexandra Linde, the piece re-emerges now with Porto himself at the helm, surrounded by his band IDRA, in a version that feels simultaneously elemental and carefully sculpted. Recorded live in an Italian studio, it resists polish in favor of friction, channeling a kind of operatic garage rock that speaks in tongues both English and French. Harmonies bloom and disintegrate, guitars lurch like grief through a hallway, and by the time the song reaches its expansive final third, it has turned into a vortex of free jazz and psychic collapse.

At its heart is a story, and for that matter, a true one, buried in Porto’s family tree. It’s a story about a girl given away, raised in wealth, and fated to vanish under the weight of secrets she never consented to carry. Her beauty becomes her mask. Her whims fracture time. Her life moves through its paces like a Greek tragedy told through home video and peeling paint. The accompanying short film, which clocks in just past nine minutes, threads actual family footage with the rough grace of Giovanni Manganaro’s painted worlds. What results is a kind of reckoning. Visuals bleed together, features lose their edges, and the past transforms into pure emotion. The narrative simply dissolves into a feeling of weightless descent.

Porto has long composed music that feels like it is remembering something you forgot, and ‘Gabor ’25’ is no exception. The song has been a ghost in his live shows for years, appearing in acoustic corners and full-band storms, but here it stands complete. A noir chanson that breathes in the smoke of rock, jazz dissonance, European cinema, and the heavy air of class and inheritance. This is an idea that identity can ever be fixed.

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