December 2024

Hi all, 

Just wanted to say hello and to tell everyone that we still do music, and that we still fight against all the weirdness of actual society in order to have a decent life. 

This post will be followed by another with more data about our music publications and else. Today was just a test from my cell phone. I hope all of you are well, see you soon. 

Regards, 

Puppy B.

P.S: My new profile on the Bluesky social network.

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. 

                              

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I am very little by little producing something new, more based on guitars, with the addition of some unpublished material, without rush, letting the muse do her thing 🙂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

June 2022

 Hi All, 
After a long time we're here again. Things continue being complicated around the world after the pandemic, but we're still trying to be productive.
Since the last post we manage to still keep doing music, which in our local economy means a lot of effort. 
You can check the releases we made since september 2021 in our bandcamp, I left the link here: 

https://puppybordiga.bandcamp.com/

And this is the cover of my last album (with link to it): 

I hope you like what you can find there. All the music was made with all the love of our heart. 
Meanwhile we will try to continue living in the concrete jungle, trying to earn our bread day by day and running our home as best we can.
I know there are people that doesn't understand a bit of what I do, I know that there are people who are faster to judge than to talk, I have already found that unfortunate human subspecies on social networks, but beyond their sad lives, ideas and destructive opinions, we will continue to strive to do what expresses us as human and sensitive beings. 
Fortunately, I also found really inspired and talented people, like Cousin Silas, EISENLAGER, Marco Lucchi and others, so we can enjoy their friendship and make fruitful collaborations. My gratitude to all of them for so many years of sincere friendship, affection and shared music.
We're working on more new material, so stay tuned, especially to our page on facebook, which is the 1st place for news.
I hope all of you are well, my best wishes for everyone.

Take care, cheers ☺
Puppy

September 2021

Hi Everyone,

Again a lot of time has passed since the last post. Life wasn't easy for nobody, and I'm not an exception. Said that, as many of you may know, I managed to produce music anyway, so I recommend to visit my Bandcamp to see the albums I've done throghout the year, in case you have missed some music from me.

I know I displayed a good sort of ideas in the process of passing this particular year, I hope that reflects my personal journey in life, is the best way to do and show music, I think. 

I'm old now and I'm trying to get the best of all of the multiple worlds that life shows when one walks through it with a loving view. I''ll try to do my best to musically express my own ideas about as long as I can, the better I can express, as always with my personal touch, using whatever I have in hands, no matter what.

And, speaking of life, this is at this point certainly uncertain as issues come and go constantly. but at a point I know mankind can do a possitive step into a better state of things, so I have my hope for a better times, I know the best is still to come.

Regards, 

Puppy ☺

A Few Words

 Hi all,

This year I did a certain abstinence from writing here, for reasons known throughout the world. This was probably one of the worst years of life for a good portion of people around the world.

Anyway, I managed myself well enough to produce more music, meanwhile constant adaptations in my private life took place to overcome the changing reality we lived in.

A lot of music has come to life since the last publication, so I leave here my last work to date, if you want to search more, use the links page on the right.

                                     

I hope that all my friends and family are well, and doing things, I believe that just that, doing, being in motion, is key to our future as people and as a society.

Happy holidays to all, best wishes ☺

Puppy

January 2020

Finally the new year arrived, and here we are, now something better after suffering casualties of technical and musical material in the studio, trying to stay on track, as who says, and organizing things for the future.

Despite having hit the bottom of the local economy, the year that went by we release a great album with Eisenlager and Cousin Silas on the end of last October, which remained, except for a video preview of December, as the last thing that could be done in 2019, given the chaotic circumstances in which we found ourselves submerged as well as the rest of the people here in Argenland.

I leave here both publications for those who have not yet seen them:

                                                                  (Bandcamp)

  (Vimeo)      

At this time we are developing the new album, which will include the music of the previous video, and that should have been finished before the end of the year in 2019, but that for various reasons could not be published before.
The album will be called "Second Star to the Right" and will include, in addition to new music, collaborations made for other labels and artists. I leave here the cover of the album, next to be published:

We hope that this new stage will find us more productive, and slowly recovering from the disaster that 2019 left us in the economy, forcing us to sacrifice a good part of our study, only in order to survive.
Our best wishes to all,

Puppy (and the team) ☺

October 2019

 Small upgrade on how things are going:

Finally we have published our new album "Voices of Distant Stars", with the collaboration of such talented musicians as Scott Snee, Daniel Fumega and Eisenlager, the later was a collaborator of ours in a couple of previous works, "Engrave" and "Altenative Ambient".
The album revolves around the vocal discourse and the various sound landscapes that are brewing thanks to the contribution of each one. As a friend mentioned in a post on Facebook, "Internet allows musicians to work remotely, strengthening ties, intermingling styles, enriching potentials, opening roads", in this case gathering people from places as distant as the United States, Germany and Argentina .

Here below I leave the player & link of the album's Bandcamp:

In the realm of the life in our beloved country, we are only days away from the elections that will determine who will be the new elected president that assumes in December, but society is still partly influenced by slogans, and although the youth little by little start to react to the fundamental questions, and analyzes things a little more objectively, unfortunately people from 40 years and older are still very attached to the old speeches and / or believe that changing the political sign is throwing the vote, although the alternatives are better at least in their philosophy.
The Argenland political class will have to make the greatest sacrifice in its history, if they want any chance of generating better living conditions for the rest of the population, the old paradigms must now be changed to have a unique opportunity to change towards a positive future. Otherwise, we will have to suffer more so that at some point later these lessons are learned.

Hopefully in the time to come we can see the beginning of that better time we wanted so much, and that drives us to continue being productive in this that fills our soul so much, which is music.

Greetings to all,
Puppy ☺

Are We in the Titanic or the Yamato?

Hello everyone,
It is not my custom to talk about politics or religion, but this time I will make a slight exception given the active status of our beloved country.

In these months that have passed, as far as the local reality of Argenland is concerned, everything gradually fell apart, until the PASO elections detonated a situation that was already unsustainable.
We are currently trying to survive the anxiety in which the economy has plunged, which has finally finished destroying thousands of projects that so many people (including us) had to get ahead even with the crisis that began last year.
I only hope that those who follow take advice from those who know most about economic matters, and for a change, leave the comfort of their slogans and really make the structural changes in political matters that are needed right now and that have already been successfully applied in other countries of the region, so that we can get off the endless carousel that we have been subjected to for decades.

Changing the subject, in the world of music, I could publish several more works since my last post, the album “Dances on Heavenly Grounds”, which has a more calm and meditative orientation than the previous ones, and “Engrave” a collaboration with our friend Eisenlager, which would be the other side of the coin of my album "Walking the Way", much freer and more complete.
At the moment I am preparing my next album, to be called “Voices of Distant Stars” with some collaborations of other artists on some tracks, it is a work that was coceived around the different possibilities of vocal timbres. Below I leave a preview of one of the parts, in a preliminary version.



With the band Zona del Punto sin Retorno we have released a new album, "El Tercer viaje" (The Third Journey) recorded live, as if to give some testimony of the group and individual evolution in recent times. There is also material in process to publish from an intermediate stage, including sessions with guests such as Dario Goggia and Javier Pajarola, still awaiting for editing and/or  mastering.

As some already know, on the 5th of this month, our dear cat and buddy "Quick", went to the stars, it has left us with a broken heart. But as if this were not enough, just four days later we learned that an important member of the Community of ambient musicians, Candy Lozier, a beautiful person, who has helped us many in one way or another, has also gone to eternity. At this moment an album is being prepared in tribute, “A Last Sunset - A Celebration Of Candy Lozier”, in which we participate. At bottom of this entry we leave links to her Bandcamps.

I would like to overflow with optimism and say that we will continue at full steam with musical productions, but the current situation has us all in a state of permanent alertness and with the prospect of having to continue making more sacrifices just to survive.
I estimate that the upcoming October elections will define whether we are in the Titanic, with a mortal wound, or if we are in the Yamato, who at least died fighting it..     
             

           

         The RMS Titanic

The Yamato

And of course, if politicians leave their ego aside for once in history, we may be successful in this test of destiny and change the paradigm once and for all.

Regards,
Puppy Bordiga

Candy Lozier links:
Studio 4632: https://studio4632.bandcamp.com/
Candy L: https://candyl.bandcamp.com/

Middle March 2019

Hi everyone,

In the music field, lots of music were added to our Bandcamp these days since our last post, the last one was published today, "August Perseids" (a single), a collaboration with Glenn Sogge, a great and talented musician, for his project "Impact of Dust". More stuff is ongoing, so this period is undoubtedly marked by the productivity.

Previously we do a collaboration album together with Eisenlager, another talented musician, and more are on the way. Also we do "Somewhere at the Quadrant's Edge", a single, which thematic probably have an influence in other jobs to come, later we publish "Walking the Way", a  recollection of my collaborations along time, with the presence of Cousin Silas and Wilfried Hamrath, and "First Expeditions", my last solo album, an homage to Sci-Fi, for the inspiration and different perpectives it gives about the future.

We also are working in the mastering of the sessions done with my band, Zona del Punto sin Retorno, at the beginning of this year. Soon there will be more news about it.

In a personal level, now here in B.A. we enter in autumn, so we hope things improve as well as we get closer to the winter, we already had enough bad winters locally. We are doing as most as we can in order to keep this productive level and stay afloat of the sea of problems that we face as a daily basis here in Argenland.

Remember to check my Bandcamp for my music (first link to the right), as well as other interesting links, including the Zona del Punto sin Retorno's blog and Bandcamp, and others.

Regards,

Puppy Bordiga

March 2019

Hi all,

Well, we have now a new album published (link at bottom of this post), with the collaboration of Cousin Silas and artwork of Andreas Schwietzke, this one is something that reflects various sides of my music, with some material that was waiting its moment to came out and finally does it.

Next works are on the way, but they still needs time to be released. There are another instrumental  ambient project named "Worlds of Water", a long time prepared one, with some old timer material, and also a solo piano album. Actually there is on its way a collaboration album with other artist too, but I can't disclosure details until things were more advanced.

In other matters, living in the city lately start to become a little daily fight, things are not "cool" in B.A. these days, if you notice that entries in this blog or other things related are delayed at some point, that would be because of that, as anyone else we at home must to prioritize the maintenance of our home, to feed the kittens and ourselves, and everything else related to that, things that nowadays are a hard hill to climb...

This entry was a short one, but it is what we have for now. I hope all of you are well, kicking and alive, my best wishes for everyone, regards,

Puppy


                          

                          Link: https://puppybordiga.bandcamp.com/album/hidden-passages

February 2019

Hi all,

This post is being made in a rush, we're on the go, first time I post while in middle of a trip to downtown.

We are very happy with all the musical movement that took place at the end of last year, the good reception of my last album, the collaborations that luckily could be made, and that is why we keep betting on the future, even though the day-by-day has the custom to put obstacles in the path.

Currently we redouble the bet and we have more projects underway, more collaborations underway, and soon we will do another upgrade to the micro-studio. 

Also we have added here in this blog the Info & Bio page, and the (actually nearly) All Links page too, that we previously had on our website, for the information of who may be interested.

We hope to have many more news in the time to come, so stay tuned!

Puppy

P.D.: I leave you here an advance of the forthcoming album, still unnamed:

P.D.2: The blog has been redesigned, hope you like it as it is now. Background pic by Project Genesis (gtgraphics.de).

November 2018

Hello everyone,

We have an issue with our hosting, so our website is offline right now. We try to find a solution for this as soon as we can. Meanwhile, good things also happen, we have a good reception to our last work, and at this time we're working on the next, with publication date around end of the year. This new album would be something less processed than previous works, not entirely unplugged, but with a simpler (not only acoustic) approach.

Also a new item for Mixcloud is being prepared, with a demo version of an old piece, that belongs to an already planned album called "Worlds of Water". This album would be a mix between old recordings made on analog from the 90's and new music. Publishing date for this one is planned for january/february 2019.

Locally things go as always, we try to survive doing any kind of tasks, but trying to make room to make music as much as we can. I hope all of you are doing well,

see you soon ☺
Puppy

P.D.: Remember, you can find my music here: https://puppybordiga.bandcamp.com/

August 2018

Hi all!
Well, some time has passed since the last post. At this time, in the refered to the music, we have recently released five Albums, a Maxi and rescued on the track of the German compilation Midnight Radio on Bandcamp. All this was possible thanks not only to my personal dedication in the matter, also thanks to all those who are always helping and in my musical work, and also to the effort made by many friends and family in the past, which has come to our days

In the scope of our Studio/Mastering Lab we have been able to close the gaps that were previously imposed by some techniclal handicaps, matter to us today. thanks to the incorporation of new technology that at this moment we are putting in tune to start working with a little more flexibility and naturality. This also allows us to not only work better in our music, but also offer services in better conditions and with greater agility.

In the remainder of the year, we will continue to do our IT coverage service for those who request it, so we will also be available to produce for third parties and offer consulting to orientate in the field of musical production to those who require it.

As you will have noticed our NetLabel Solar Ship Records some time ago began to publish works of our friend Patricio Migliazzo through our YouTube channel, in a dedicated playlist, we will see more things and maybe more artists associated to the label in the time to come. Also soon S.S.R. it will have its own space outside of Facebook, and the same will happen with the Enterprise Sounds Lab.

The publication of the band of the Band Zona del Punto Sin Retorno in Bandcamp is still delayed, but it is only a question of little time, until we finish again the whole team here to be able to realize the final masterings of the tracks of the band.

For the rest, we will continue to surviving the current state of things of society as best as possible to continue being productive and continue to make projects a reality as they should be.

Without more, see you next time, greetings to all and thanks for always being there.
Puppy ☺

February 2018

Hello everyone,

Things kept going, and we already have our second album in the Bandcamp. In these days that follow we will see the reopening of our Study / Mastering Lab, more new collaborations with our friend and colleague Patricio Migliazzo, to whom we gave a special space on our YouTube channel through a dedicated playlist.

This year we will be prolific in the music, since we will also publish the works that were in Demo format in the Mixcloud, plus a couple of things that were already finished but not yet published.
As for the band, there is also the project to open their own Bandcamp, we are leaving that for when the studio is fully installed so we leave all the material mastered, so that it can be downloaded in high quality.

Personally there are not many new features, this year I may take a few days of vacations after more than a decade, as they will have read on Facebook, our cat Griselda had to be operate in her tail for an accident ...

The current situation in which we live in our country is not pleasant, but I have faith in the people. It is the only variable that neither the economy nor the policy can change, and I hope that among all of us we will go ahead, each one contributing his bit from his daily work.

Greetings to all :)
Puppy

November 13th Update

Just a few words about these present times :)

Finally our Bandcamp is open, our music is finally published. This generates a good wave of positive comments all around, and have a really good reception. Also we do a new technical collaboration with Patricio Migliazzo, named "7 Preludios (Piano Solo)" (you can find it at our YouTube channel: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XJnjJmPWy0I&t=19s). It seems that things in the music field are beginning to enhace its rhythm finally.

The local economy, however, still makes no sign of changes in a perspective view. As we are planning to produce more music for publishing before year's end, anyway we have some reserved optimism... Our land do not cease of surprising us with bad news for the average local inhabitant, maybe we are among the most taxed countries in the world...

If things go right, and the actual impulse through our Bandcamp keeps on, probably we are able to made some long time planned improvements to our studio and instrumentation (fingers crossed).

In a personal plane, I'm still recovering from my hand injury, this is maybe what slows the most the making of new music, but I'm doing my best effort to overcome the present handicap... Patience, and more patience. As confucius said: "Patience is the mother of Wisdom". So we're aplying it to the daily life...

That was, in short, by now. I left a link to our new portal in the Bandcamp (it is also in our Merchandise page), so you can be able to listen and/or download our music:
                                             https://puppybordiga.bandcamp.com/releases

As always, thanks to be there,
see us in the cyberspace, cheers! :)
Puppy

October 2017

Hi everyone,

A lot of time passed again since my last post. This year my life was in a very complited situation since I was injuerd in my right hand by late february. Since then I was forced to stop almost everything that i use to do in a daily basis. Also, my mother pass away at the end of march, what was a kind of earthquake to the family.

In the music field, as well as I began to recover some movility in my hand I start continuing the works that were delayed, and preparing to resync all te data of my networks, including uploads, website upgrades and some other tasks pending.

Thanks God some good news also happen, like my collaboation with Cousin Silas, and the opening of a new space for holding my music in Hear This! with some new material. In the studio side, after a long time, a video work for my friend Patricio Migliazzo was done, with great impact. Also, one of my uncles has the kindness of making a gift in the form of a digital piano, which extends my studio capabilities and also help me with my hand recovery.

If everything keeps the actual direction, probably my so announciated Bandcamp opening will be true in a short time now, and music projects will shorten its release time.
It was a kind of devastating year so far, and I'm really can't predict the future, but I start see some light at the end of it. We at home are still keeping a very spartan way of life, so I think that all the efforts that we were making for having some success in moving our music can have a good end this time.

Well, a final line just to say thank you to all of you that are always supporting me and my projects, from wherever you are, my sincere gratitude from my heart.

See you soon,
Puppy :)

                                                     My Mom smiling when entering home, a time ago... :)

P.D.: I always write with the (unconscious) idea of having a more or less decent english vocabulary or grammar. If you find any  inconsistency, please let know and I will change whatever is necessary. thanks a lot :)

November 2016

Spring came,
And there is little left for the summer. Today is 15, one quite heavy day in Buenos Aires, since he is undecided between rain and sunrise. Life lately has been rare, the social environment is strange, everything expensive, and everything is more and more linked to the networks than ever, but to conservatives as always they do not like to see it like this, and to top it off, in the U.S. elections won the republicans, with the media and global tsunami that was expected if this happened.

Personally, in the field of music I could to come up with some ideas that I had been bringing for some time now, I could publish my works, both Guitar Works like Life Impressions, at least in Demo mode, thanks to the opening of my account in Mixcloud, where I will surely add more new material. It is ideal to show things since it has no time limit, although it does not accept albums or loose themes, so although it is a little extra work, I am generating the Mixes to upload then there.

I also posted new material, which will grow, since I'm trying to take advantage of my current creative situation, even if I do not have all the resources I want available, prior to the next expansion of my home studio, for which little time remains. There are also in Mixcloud a monetization mode that I have not yet activated, is something that surely I will do these days, since I want have more time and peace of mind to do so.In terms of daily life, we are managing in the most spartan way possible at home, trying to fill some deficiencies with creativity as far as can, sometimes times have to be extended, other times recycling things, I'm cool because I know that we are putting the best of each one.

Our friend Roberto Sampere, who was part of the home team for more than ten years, there's a time now that he does not live with us, but he manages himself to visit us and collaborate with something, whether it be the house or level info on techno that we use usually at home, as well as with his expert photographic eye.
Life continues to flow and we try to adapt to all necessary changes so that continue to advance and grow.

I do not know when I'll be back in these sites, but for you maybe I'm late, I wish everyone to spend some good and happy Christmas and New Year, and that the prosperity reach us all,

Sincerely from my heart,
Puppy B.

June 2016

Hi everybody,
Winter is coming soon as well as my birthday, by this date we upgraded the site and the SoundCloud page, also there is some more music to upload, in which I'm working. I am trying to complete the set of pieces for Guitar Works so I can move with the material closer to the live experience in the next months, anyway we are still fighting some issues at home like the economy and the lack of a decent working space and others, but I'm managing the situation way to minimize all that issues and keep myself in a productive status.

I have to thank to all my friends and relatives for their support, this year started complcated and it still is, but we're not giving up to the external conditions, fortunately some new things are happening, like the possibility of an acoustic set of my music, and in short time the opening of my BandCamp; this and other little daily good things are giving us a certain hope for the time to come, some light appears on the horizon at last.

Another couple of acknoledgements should be done, as you can see in the site, we have been mentioned and posted by ArtistTtrove, and also posted by a great musician like Cousin Silas, no more no less; so guys, many many thanks from my heart :)
We (me and the people who are helping me in my projects) will continue seeding the work, so we can, if things go right, harvest those efforts in the next future.
Blessings and we are in touch, best regards from B.A.,

Puppy
Cheers! :)

Mid-May 2016

Hi everyone,
These passed times I was getting a kind of war with the surround situation, life is not easy here. Anyway I managed to keep working with music, two more tracks were added to the Guitar Works preview, after all this time the "framework" of the album probably ends in nine tracks, eight of them are already finished in the compositional stage,
I left a last one to finish later, just to keep things fresh enough :) . If things go right, I would add two more tracks to the recorded set before mid year, so those interested keep in tune, specially at the facebook page, which by the moment is the place were I am posting first...

If we are lucky enough, things began to slowly move forward this time, when you reach the rock bottom then you have where to kick to change direction towards the surface and then stay afloat...
Best regards from B.A.,

Puppy  ;)

P.D.: Last march my cat Rita passed away, in an unexpected complication after a surgery. At home we're deeply saddened for her depart, we know she's in cat's heaven now... My present work would be dedicated to her. I left a pic from the times she was 4/5 months old, she lived 2 years but this one is pretty nice, she was in company of her human mother, Karina Flowers.                                                                                                                                                                                                            

P. D. 2: As well as I continue uploading tracks to my SoundCloud profile, automatically they will appear in the preview of the previous post, so you can hear directly from this blog without the need to change the page. I hope you enjoy it, cheers :)