There's something to self-enquiring that makes us ramble to often end up back to our core,
back to our surroundings and value that sort of first glance at things.
This septet is rooted in the work I've done two years ago in Mexico as part of an art residency
at the National Autonomous University of the State of Mexico, where I arranged and produced
an Argentine Chacarera of mine to play it with a group of Mexican musicians.
The following year I resumed work on this project here in Argentina, and that's when
the production of this album began its development process.
There's been a pre-production and arrangement stage followed by six months of pretty intense rehearsal
during which the challenge has been to turn the songs I usually play in my guitar
into a group concept, then seeing what each of us had to add to that from their role in the group.
After that, we recorded for about a month here, in Nakao studios,
and were very anxious to go out and play, to see how the pieces of the puzzle got together.
– One, two, one...
– So, Javi, you recorded pi pi pi pi...
– Yes, that's it
– So, pi pi pi pi.
– Okay, from the top.
The poetic sound construction of this album, so dense and packed with instruments and relentless,
distinct sounds that bring both order and a blending atmosphere to it – well, it sort
of has to do with the idea of how, where I come from, city and yunga coexist, how the
yunga, which is basically the way up the hill that is completely fertile, very much humid
and overcharged blends in perfect harmony with the urban environment.
The city is also fertile soil.
In relation to Folklore – there's something about the quest for our inner self that has
to do with identity, and Folklore has much to do with that.
In this case, the whole thing's about departing from one's own identity, from what it is that
we have to say with our music.
Although I feed from different rhythms like Vidalas, Huaynos and above all the Chacarera,
I take also from other types of music because, well, as we make our way, we start by letting
what we have to say out and we say, 'okay, this is me',
and start working order from there.
For me, combining things the way I like is this, not only expressing myself, which is
the starting point to all these songs, but also building from rhythms and from the
Folkloricgenres that are very much present a general sonority that, rather than a discontinuing
process, it's a way of thinking how I can start building from my own place.
It's asking what is it that I want to say with this, and from there on.
It's trusting one's own idea of things, cultivating one's voice and it's also learning
that how we feel and what we have to say is as true
and valid as what everyone else is feeling and saying.
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