December 18 2022 before the FIFA World Cup Final in Buenos Aires
Its has been a while since my last blog post and many thing happened during this past months so let’s get started.
I delivered to all platforms my EP “Lo-Fi Sessions” as expected. This album includes 4 instrumental songs on a beautiful conceptual format. It’s original, it’s laid back, sounds great in the background. To be honest, when you are a multi genre artist like myself who is not precisely into mainstream genres (Even tho, I’ve done it. Guilty as charge) its very hard to break any kind of barriers and get into the ears of millions.
This EP needed a strong song, with a vocal presence according to the tale. “Siento que” is the main single from the EP and got very nice results. People are still enjoying it and keeps counting modest streams.
After this project I felt like a needed a rest from music to come up with the concept from my next project, which is going to be a new full album.
I want this to feel honest to where I come from, gathering the sounds from 90’s grunge and 00’s metal into a project for Rock lovers.
If I have to talk about influences: Deftones, A perfect circle, Soundgarden, Radiohead are some bands I have been listening for years and shaped part of my sound making in it into the list.
So, in September 2022 we entered the studio at “El Ruido Records” with my good friend Pepe German on drums and Diego Estrella on Bass and recorded a couple songs for this project that are currently in post production. If you want to check a video while we were composing the first song click here
Recording drums at El Ruido Records
After that, I recorded another song by myself called “Catharsis” which is also in the line waiting for post production. I still need to compose at least 7 more songs. Sadly I don’t have time, either inspiration. But hey, this is not a race, this is art and you can be pretty sure I will keep writing song for this project during this year.
Then came the world cup and I witnessed and unbelievable display of happiness by people all around me. Argentina is again, champion of the world. I was there, on sunday after the final at the mythical 9 de Julio Avenue along with other 1,5 millions of Argentineans. It’s hard to explain, but I bet you already watched videos on the news about the celebrations. A week later was Christmas and the year was gone.
2023 came with a new variety of episodes in my fast paced life. I was hired to teach E-commerce at UISEK Business School. I already finished teaching my first course. I’m happy about this new challenge and opportunity. This is the third University in which I’ve taught.
Other than that I’ve been working to close doors in other professional ventures that will give me back time for pursuing music. But there is always a catch, I still need to replace that income with something else, so as you can see, the life of a musician not living from music is a plethora of inconveniences.
I feel this year will bring difficult times, maybe some that will take a while to recover from. Peace of mind always carries a cost.
