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Gone are the times that will never return. For some reason nostalgia seems to be something almost addictive for the people. What happens that we constantly return to this feeling that has actually a so sad meaning? Are not we supposed to pursuit happiness instead?

The lake recalls that old and lost memory, the day that Moon finally accepted him and swam in his waters giving herself in soul and flesh in such a way that the Lake thought he had her forever, that she will never run away (please note, in spite in german the concept Moon has a male character attached, we are gonna assume it as a female). What a great sadness to realize the mistake! The Lake saw her swimming in his waters, but couldn’t see it was just the reflection of her light over his surface. How bitter the tears are, when remembering all those illusions now completely shattered, tonight when no Moon or reflection are present, not even that ghostly pale light which announce love’s proximity in the dark and starless sky.

What if longing or nostalgia is no more than the overriding proof that we’ve been happy, perhaps not life long (because nothing is meant to be life long, in some cases, nor even the life itself) but certainly in the moments. Maybe we dive deep into longing one and over again because we suspect that there’s a clue to the happiness sunk to the bottom of its abyss. Maybe is the longing a kind of hope that the bliss exists, and it’s reachable because we’ve reached it before, and maybe is actually knocking on our doors in this right moment, and we can possibly hear it if we’re able to live and understand the moment itself. 

Dear folks,

I share with you this piece named “Was der Mond erzählt” (What the moon tells), which is one of my favourites and the one that gives the name to the album (that will be finished shortly).

Despite of releasing an album, I will uploads the tracks one by one as soon as I finish them, and I hope you to find in each one a soft balm for your ears.

Enough chatter, let’s listen:

“El Origen”, the first single from this audiovisual session we made along my band “Pajaro del Viento” at Centro Cultural Malotun, Coyhaique, Patagonia. Soon we’ll release more videos, stay tuned!

After some months away (travelling around and playing wherever an opportunity shines), I spent part of the south summer in Coyhaique, for making a couple of concerts with Aguilera and his Pussycats… Result? an amazing concert, nice venue, lot of good people around, cool vibe, the best beer ever tasted and the will to go back again next summer (or before, who knows).

“Comunión” the song that names the album, for you all, with an enormous love.

Comunion, album recorded during my stay in Coyhaique, Chilean Patagonia, in January 2018. Genre? kind of rock/pop/alternative/jazzfusion/folk not too sophisticated and quite easy to digest, just like us. It was also a good opportunity to have been invited by Juan Pablo for making a beautiful travel and having a good time with friends that time left so far in the south.

Despite of the word meaning, “Comunion”, widely used in the catholic liturgy, our meaning (that’s also the main subject in all of the songs) refers more to the simple act that gives sense to the fact of being alive: union among persons.

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This is the first release from our new album “Comunion”, which we’re gonna keep uploading within the next weeks. “A Una Estación” is a composition from our friend Matias Martinoli.

Further information at the facebook profile of Estudio Uranio, Coyhaique https://www.facebook.com/estudio.uranio

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dNSS0kYAj4A

A small collaboration with the music band Lawenkó, that set up a friendship that will hopefully remain in time

Short recording of the concert we made along my dear friends Jasmin Dominick and Nicolas Chacon on december 7th. We hope to continue with our presentations in this ensamble as it fits good to our relaxed mood. We’d like to thank to Foundation Delia del Carril and Picaporte Ediciones for makeing this concert possible.

“La Aldea”, in simple words it is a compilation from many songs recorded around 2012, which now I had the opportunity to remix and master. All the track they were recorded in different moments, different moods ands with collaboration of different people who offered me their help just for love to the music.

Despite it wasn’t intended, it finally had a clear message beyond the lyrics and now it shows itself clear for me. Beyond the music, the real meaning of this works appears suddenly in front of me as a guide, as a kind of Bible that I, without knowing, wrote to myself.

All this is very personal and doesn’t worth for anybody else but me. But the music has a meaning for everyone. So you’re kindly invited to join.

Youtube:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uaCTn52UPHs&list=PLr14CUdt44wDFRHWn4o-hcP2hiQ1wzOx7

This was the my second release in LP format and a very special one. In this album I put some songs that I had composed before, arranged into solo piano versions with small synthesiser interventions, together with a bunch of little improvised pieces that came out among the recording sessions, many of them completely free from previous ideas. It’s the magic of what you can catch in the moment.

It sounds pretty much like contemporary jazz sometimes, but is just the appearance, the essence remains lost in a hidden place between theoretically well-arrange music and land of the pure sounds, where nothing fits into mathematical functions, where just the feelings are the engine that moves the world.

More information in the website I specially created for this work, and which is unfortunately only in Spanish, but once again, the language belongs to this theoretically well-arrange land, the feelings are wordless.

WEB https://benjaminrod.com/tardeseternas/

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