October 9th, 2014

Hi!
Well, good news on the horizon: We replace the .com site for a .tk, from which we trigger (when avalible) the .com site. We are working on a entire redesign for the .com site, which will be dedicated only for commercial matters, it means that we left the old site and its content in the now available . tk site, which can be accesed right form here through the link in the upper right. This way this blog is entirely functional with the site, as it was in the past, and we start to write updates in a more regular way, just as we did before, here.

On the music side, we are still working with the demo for the band, and soon a BancCamp profile will be available for hear and download the music, we are now in collaboration with more people in order to do this, which is a new step in our way to promote our music, and it helps in closing gaps between the composing and rehearsal stage in which we are actually and the band's live presentations and perfomances.

Anyway the site also will be updated, as well as time and economy stays in our side, we try to improve it as much as we can, so we try to provide more multimedia for a better experience and more gemeral browser compatibility, we try to make it work right on any one of them, actually it has some lacks on certain browsers, due to the fact that it was wrtitten in just plain html and doesn't have any css or java (we reduce javascript to the minimum on purpose), maybe flash will help for that in the future...

Well, it's all by now, see you soon and have a happy october! :)

Puppy & the kittens :)

August 1st., 2014

Hi everybody,

Eleven months passed since my last post here. I wasn't writing because I redirect all my news to my wordpress blog ( http://pupisenterprises.wordpress.com/ ), which is in spanish, and the music pages on Facebook (the ones for Puppy Bordiga and Zona del Punto sin Retorno).

I originally intended the use of this one as an extension of my website ( http://www.puppybordiga.com ), which is actually offline, and more or less since then (I mean my last post) I left it inactive, even I almost forgot Blogger... Great mistake! lots of things happens here, despite if one is involved on that or not.
I am evaluating the possibility of changing the language here into spanish too, and put this one in sync with the other blog, because I have not a certain date to the reload of the site, it was originally planned for September, but it depends on too much external factors to have the sureness for count with it.

The overall idea of the blog was always to interact with anyone interested in my music projects and also for general exchange of ideas, making appropiate use of the enormous Google advantages of having all the web services in one place, i.e.: if you look something that you like here, you can go to Google+ and start a hangout there, and viceversa, the same for myself...
So due to the generic use of the blog, I think it's time to say a few words on me:
I am now 54, so I'm not a child, the following lines are just to make clear to everybody how things are going on and put some light on certain matters...

My personal life can't be more complicated than in present days, it's a fact that only a few of my very close friends and my family knows, everything that any other person thinks that knows and/or speak about it outside that group is just gossip. But I'm decided long time ago to make the necessary efforts to keep the projects alive and afloat, despite the stupid ideas that some people may have about them.
Probably all that gossip starts on the generalized idea that most people have about each other: Once they have one person labeled on a task or job they can't change their minds for including that person doing something else, no matter that "new" habilty in fact were always there in the background or in a second stage.

The real thing is that I have to do everything in my knowledge to survive, from PC repairs and other IT jobs to let go some of my personal stuff, including to sell things that I've recollected through the years, things that finally and already do its part in my past...
Until the end of 2012 I use to have a certain normality in my way of life, and because of that most people still thinks that I am on a more relaxed position, but for their knowledge: I was never rich, things or money never overflow in my life... If I learn something from my elders was to carry on an attitude in life that enhace harmony and dignity, and maybe that makes some confusion in their minds.

Anyway, this state of things is not endless. At the same time that I do my best for the day-by-day living, also I am (together with other 40 persons and their families) in the list of a compensation for the time worked at the factory, where I used to have my former employment, once the bankruptcy trial has ended, and since I was 21 years there it's not a small number...
As I'm not alone in my music efforts, and things are moving so fast now, if that number comes on, it will not change me, I mean my mind, or my way of life, or the scope of my views, it just will be a hand to settle all the projects and have some rest at last, just that.

Now a little on the music:
I'm glad to say that I'm actually in one of the best creative moments I ever had! No matter that in my band now we are four since my partner and fellow guitarrist Fernando is no longer in the band, his departure generates the opposite effect than in most of musical groups, the fact that we were forced to re-arrange all the music for the new quartet fomation was the trigger of a chain of  wonderful developments in the remaing members, to the point that I can seriously say that a new band is out!

Check for news (in spanish) in the wordpress blog, through the link included above, we are totally excited about what's coming out in the rehearsals, and nowadays we are working in our first "definitive edition" demo, so we're expecting to hit the road for middle September, if things go the right way...


I hope this message as long (a little compensation for the time spent out), will give the potential (or not)  readers an accurate image of the past, present and upcoming events in this small world.
For those interested in the music projects I left the next links so you can enjoy our published material to the date:

For Puppy Bordiga:
https://www.facebook.com/JuanManuelBordigaMusic
For Zona del Punto Sin Retorno (Point of No Return Zone):
https://www.facebook.com/ZonaDelPuntoSinRetorno

Well, I think is all by now, wish you the best, peace and love for everybody ;)
Puppy

P.D.: Down here I left a pic from the past summer in my garden with my kittens Quick and Sioux.

                       


P.D.2: Everybody is welcomed to make comments or speak out about the matters on this post or whatever you like, I'm trying to make this a more dynamic place... Just remember, use the "all in one" features of Google, hope I'll see some of you in a forthcoming hangout! ;)

Views on September

Hi all,

By the side of my band, Zona del Punto Sin Retorno, rehearsals become more intensive, we are adding a lot of new material, so we are working at full gas in reward of live playing opportunities by year's end. We still have the problem of getting a second drummer, due to Danifarar's overseas job schedules, so we are trying to find another one now with certain hurry, so we can finish the working setup for the band. Meanwhile, we are doing some mastering and mixes to the present recordings (a lot more than what we uploaded to SoundCloud and YouTube sites), in order to set up a more or less accurate demo for band management and overall use.

In a personal level, I can't get what most peolpe could call a "normal" job yet, but I'm actually so busy working with the music, that I don't see clearly if really my former industry have room for me, anyway I'm still looking forward for a place inside it... My music projects are actually delayed because of the work I'm doing with the band and other in which I'm related to, for some friends living outside the country; so if everything goes fine, probably by year's end I don't have the need for another job outside the music anymore, so in the time to come, I will put all the energy to what's started out and close all the cycles needed to keep moving on.

Cheers, JMB :)

July

Well, we are five now. Our all-time friend Gigi adopt us, so we have a bass player after all the odds in the way, so now we started rehearse the way it must be done... Now we are focusing on the music itself, which is healthy and good, and start improving the areas in which we overplayed before, so the next demos we record probably will sound as originally were intended to. Really we are living an incredible time by doing this "therapy" as our guitar player Fernando said, and also getting the real way into new seas of fresh newborn music universes, the travel is just starting up...

Cheers for everyone, see you on cyberspace! ;)

P.D.: Here I left one pic with the guys (except me)

        

June 2013

After a series of failed attempts to engage in a new job, I move forward with the band, and finally get a drummer, a good friend of mine joined the band this month,  with lots of enthusiasm and energy. He's in his return to music, like me, and luckily was able to get a good piece of musical equipment so just have our first rehearsal yesterday, we are all happy and strong energy is flowing between us all. So what we do in the next steps will be done in a more easily and appropriately way; I left a meeting photo below.
All the best from here, see you soon :)

April 2013

Actually we are having a great time with the band, "Point of No return Zone", we are finishing the arrangement process, recorded some videos and editing. If we are lucky, we catch a rehearsal room in the northern zone of great B.A., the idea is not to loose our sound when moving, so we are managing all the spects on the physical details involved, also a way to be practical once on the road... In the other hand I'm still without a regular income, so I'm researching all the time I can a day in order to get some relief from the present situation...
I left a pic of the actual formation of the band...
Cheers :)

New Year

Rehearsing more than ever, without a job, thanks God we have no credits or any other bank relationship, doing at last in poverty what we intended at first... Anyway, it is going the way it was thought to go, for one time. So we are now just three, I think this is enough to make the noise required to my music, later we go to take out from the hat some other people that should be necessary to the rest of the circus... We are really having a good time now, I only expect to cancel the only debt I have with one friend of mine, so we can start our way to the shows quick!

Cheers! :)