Acoustic set in Sweden January 9, 2012

I’ve been invited by Gabrielle Grace to open for Uniform Motion in Gothenburg, Sweden, February, the 4th. Saturday night fever ?

Details are set on the Uniform Motion website.

If by any chance you’re around I’ll be glad to meet you. Or maybe later somewhere else around the world ? .

I’ll fly there with my Martin acoustic guitar and a camera. Expect a couple of pictures, of course !

Can’t wait, first time I visit Sweden.

A Strange Day January 1, 2012

Happy new year !

I added a 14th song to my Autumn Fears album project, and couldn’t help finishing it for this special day, today. And I shot a video ! So no Sad Fellows acoustic song this month. Instead…

A cover song of The Cure, A Strange Day. Weird, I realized it’s the first time I covered a song. Play it huge and loud .

If by any chance you subscribed to the mailing list you’re going to receive a download link for the mp3.

All the best for 2012 and the following years !

A strange year December 22, 2011

2011 has been a strange year for me. Las year I published a post about what happened to me in 2010. Mostly nice things around music. Untimely Tales, Ghostly etc.

It started with a new camera, a great video for A Useless Tale shot by Maria Cristina, and 13 rough songs written for the February Album Writing Month.

Then I found an apartment. A good thing of course, but many things to do for it until summer. A stressful period. I did almost nothing except shooting pictures. Well, I trained my camera skills, of course.

But I also met great artists. Mysterious Pu The Owl photography, Tamás Andok photography, Nuno Almeida multimedia projects, Isabel Gore paintings, Mark Spray paintings. And Many others I didn’t talk about yet.

Then May came with a new version of my Untimely Tales website, now a photoblog. September came with the Sad Fellows acoustic project.

And I redesigned this website a month ago or so. Still have work to do on it, such as a better video page, a detailed music page, include lyrics of the songs… Didn’t have time yet for I started again to work on music at the same time.

No release this year, except the Sad Fellows acoustic songs, but I guess something might be released next year, as long as I started to work on the Autumn Fears 13 songs again. Started pre-production and I have an overall idea of the sound and rythm of each song.

Finally 2011 was strange for I hardly made music. Only Work In Progress. On the other hand it took me 6 months to record Untimely Tales. It takes time, guess 2011 had to be a quiet year. Of course I’m now excited about what’s going to happen in 2012. Working on it.

Happy holidays, my friends ! Talk to you… next year…

Mark Spray paintings December 13, 2011

I’ve been to England only once in my life. A long time ago. Student. North, a city called Bolton, not far from Liverpool and Manchester. One clear thing I remember is the trip from there to London, listening to The Waterboys (This Is The Sea) and looking at the country. A dream picture. And the feeling I understood at that right moment why that music sounded like that.

Curiously I’ve never been there again but I definitely should. From South to North.

That’s what Mark Spray does for his paintings. Travelling the whole country. He kindly sent me the book of his series “A final pilgrim”. Wow he even told me he found some resonance in Untimely Tales with two particular paintings. Anyway…

Can’t help thinking those raw landscapes are amazing. What a long process, travelling for months in lost places around England and Scotland, then final work inside the studio. Have a look and sink into it :

Inspiring, right ? Visit his website for more… far more…