Wednesday, December 27, 2023

End of Year

 Hello everyone,

The year is about to end and I wanted to make a kind of balance, but in reality there is nothing that is mostly not known. It was not my intention to talk about politics, but since it has determined our decisions throughout this year, I am going to try to be as synthetic as possible.

My country was in quite bad shape, thanks to the former Minister of Economy, the previous administration was able to reach the elections on time, at great cost. We pay part of that cost by having to redouble our efforts. However, now we are facing worse times if we do not react as a whole to the arbitrariness proposed by the new government. 

This situation forced many of us who passionately dedicate ourselves to developing any artistic task to prioritize the fight for sustenance since the basis of our personal economies was grossly undermined.

For that reason I have only published two albums this year instead of having been more fertile as in previous years. Thank God my collaborators have proven to have an understanding and patience beyond what would have been normal or logical, and I owe them a debt of gratitude and trust. 

I only hope that the times to come will be a little more benign or at least fair with the effort that one puts into the creative side of the being.
I wish us all a better year in 2024, there are new things in development, hopefully I can show them soon.

I leave you below the last album published, perhaps the one that has cost me the most to produce in a long time.
Greetings,
Puppy B. 

                              

Friday, February 24, 2023

February 2023

 Hi Everyone,

Again time passes, and thankfully we survived the global changes we faced last months. Health is not replaceable, and unfortunately some friends from the old days have passed away in this time that passed.
Lately I have been going to a friend's country house, which has helped me to get out of the city, which I can bear less every day.

I am very little by little producing something new, more based on guitars, with the addition of some unpublished material, without rush, letting the muse do her thing 🙂

Here is summer, and the heat is quite unbearable, I always wait for the sun to go down to turn everything on, I don't want to force the equipment.
Among my things I have the more or less recent addition of a Yamaha YG77 synthesizer in module format, which I trigger with a midi keyboard, courtesy of our friend Daniel Fumega, who also plays on my latest album, in which 3 other very talented european musicians also participate: Wilfried Hanrath, Marco Lucchi, and Astrofaros.  
They all really made the album, the whole idea was to establish a common ground and work together, and the results far exceeded my own expectations. It took almost six months of production work, but it was worth it.

Anyway, I don't think I'll repeat the experience of publishing two albums just a week apart again, the idea was to take advantage of the end of the year dates to boost the publications, but I ended up destroyed, I hardly slept those days...
I leave the album below, which I hold very close to my heart:

                               

Take care of yourselves out there, the world has been very crazy lately, politicians are making a mess everywhere. Let's hope things change course.

Hugs from B. A., 
Puppy