In 1986 I recorded an album on audiocassette using only a toy sampler
(Casio SK1). Although it was about space, it was a pretty rhythmic affair
(hey, it was the 80's!), as opposed to a soft voyage through stars.
Back then I thought it was a real masterpiece. After a few years, when
the limits of my very poor gear became painfully apparent, I decided
that one day I would re-record it with better instruments.
For over twenty years I had the recurrent desire to give a definitive
shape to what I felt was one of my best works. In 2009 the right time
finally came and I started working on it. The whole thing was pretty
exciting for me: I was recording that great album, at last!
The first track came out fine and I was fairly confident the album
would be great. However, with the second track the problems began...
I quickly discovered that the album preserved on that old tape wasn't
such a masterpiece after all. Actually, it was a very crappy collection of
confused and undeveloped non-tracks that made very little sense :(
Sure, there were many nice ideas, but the songs in themselves were so
messy and unstructured that exctracting the good parts and giving them
a proper form became a daunting task. As a matter of fact, it took me
around a year to complete the recordings, and that is a loooong time for
my standards. I guess things started really rolling only when I finally
relaxed and began letting new ideas flow alongside the old ones.
Anyway, I made it and here it is. All things considered, I'm kind of happy
with the result and I hope you will enjoy it, too. In any case, this album
has always been a sort of milestone in my musical inner world, so my
affection for it goes beyond any objective value it may have...
I'm glad I finally recorded it.
A note about the cover: the ink drawing I used for the cover is the very
same I originally made for the old audiocassette. Back in 1986 I applied
some "special effects" by moving it around a bit while photocopying it,
while for the CD cover I used computer graphics, otherwise it is precisely
the same picture.
Mac, June 2010
Self-release
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