New Release: Message

With more delay than expected, I’m sharing “Message”. Being working on other projects (of which I hope to give news soon) made that this album, with not complicated production, that expects to be fresh and casual, has taken longer to see the light.

This has also influenced the shape and spirit: in the beginning it was going to have more songs, with more punk-rock tension. “Rude” was the word. But, as has already happened several times in this library, the path between the initial idea and the final result is too long…

Summarizing..

12 songs, 27 minutes. Rock, garage, punk (for reference). 12 fresh and direct songs, without additives. With prominence of dirty guitar riffs and frenetic rhythms. Casual sounds and imperfect tricks. As if it was a first concert in a small club. Or we listened to a rookie rock group in one of his first reunions in a garage. When, musically, the intensity is above everything else.

Influences… Black Lips, The Clash, beer & public gardens, Thee Oh Sees, Ty Segall, longboards, Eddy Current, Harmony Korine & Larry Clark, Black Falg, 4-string guitars and 2-string basses, The Cramps, Titus Andronicus, BMX, Ex Hex, Broncho, bad kids, caps and backpacks, Parquet Courts, hangovers, Gonzo, OFF…

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New Release: Onus

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Onus is a bad day. A slump.

Surely the most gray and sad work that I ever made for this library. A step beyond melancholy, Onus tries to collect most of feelings and motivations that we can live in those times in which one is not quite right: from gloom to hope, anger, moments of simple contemplation.

When one collapses and at the same time want to get up and initiate change. When the head is going a mile a minute and yet one does not think of anything. This moments when you are blank and get great lucidity both.

Onus is melodic lines of strings and winds supported in electronic beds. With synths in the background and saturated drum machines. Guitars that appear suddenly, distant. There are broken rhythms and kicks that hit you. The result of mixing dark electronica with dramatic orchestral arrangements.
Influences… Actress, snowy beaches, silence, Arca, Haxam Cloak, Andy Stott, Ben Frost, Björk, Clark, wrong expectations, homesickness, cold snap, Theo Parrish, Herbert, violins and cellos, broken instruments, Hans Zimmer, Debussy, Britten, Shostakovich, Brian Eno, Johann Johannsson, Alva Noto & Ryuichi Sakamoto, hugs…

 

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Last night the DJ saved my life

DJI was reviewing some old works, “Bunk” specifically. Among all music composed at that time for that project, I found this song. Well, there was a starting idea, a sample. I never got to finish it without being disappointed with the result. So it never saw the light, until now.

It is certainly a necessary pause just before publishing “Onus”. Faced with the melancholy sounds of the strings, saturated drum machines and the gray atmosphere that characterizes “Onus”, this song makes a brake, relaxed and fresh. Escape of “Onus” made me most easily find the sound I was looking for for this “DJ” and close the song successfully. I needed to party.

“Dj” is also a new exercise of “DIY sample”, already used in Arbol:Small fragments of songs recorded as an independent new song and subsequently used as sample. Original cuts, not bits of other songs.”

 

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