Tercer Impacto (2019)
album
composition, vocals, production, mixing: me
mastering: Arturo Zegers
cover art: Sofía Garabito
ok this would be the debut album of my solo project i think. it's weird to think it that way because i was making music way before that (the first time i presented a composition of mine in public was a concert in 2009 lol),
but it's truly the first full-lenght album i fully produced and released with my own songs.
i think i began writing and producing the songs in 2016 and finished the whole thing in early 2019. the process of producing was also my own journey of learning about production:
i was having a couple of lessons and started to self-teach myself all along during that period.
so it was very exciting but also a lot of hard, lonely work.
the album does feel very lonely and intimate to me. i think when people work alone they can
bring their most authentic self. to me the more personal a work feels,
the more lonely it does too. and i mean loneliness is one of the big topics
i tackle on this album and on a huge part of my work in general.
and i think the album works as a way to understand why it is the way it is.
there's a lot of self-reflection on my school life, on the feelings of isolation,
on my family, on the way i struggle with human interaction and community,
with having my art being recognized and supported by others, etc. sonically i feel that i let
loose my exciment for sound design and particularly vocal manipulation. i
was just having a lot of fun. a particular high point imo is Desierto vegano: not a
song that i come back very often, but one that i feel really encapsulates that research,
by having 95% of the sounds that integrate it coming from my voice. that
reinforced an idea that i have come back to lately
, particularly as i have recognized more my trans identity and my dysphoria
: that in the black box of music production your body can be anything you want it to be.