MADRID MERIDIAN

I am happy to announce the Russian label День забытой жизни (Day Of Life Forgotten) has released my new album "MADRID MERIDIAN" of my project Sebastian In Dream. This is the link to the album:

https://thedayoflifeforgotten.bandcamp.com/…/madrid-meridian

And this is the commentary they made of the album. I have roughly translated it from Russian: 

“Album of the Spanish composer, artist and poet Álvaro Barcala. Mystical psychogeographic music dedicated to Álvaro's hometown - Madrid. Both earthly and heavenly. In creating the work, Álvaro was guided by the idea of the Russian mystic Daniil Andreev about the duality of all the great cities, the existence of a supramundane reflection of each of them, a kind of Soul. An album created with minimal resources, however, sounds rich and timbre - saturated.

Before us is a majestic picture, permeated with intense poetic experience. The sensation of the merger of the city and the person making his way, as if between the earthly and heavenly state of his native city. The names of the compositions used English, Spanish and Russian. The composition "душа " is named in Russian because for Alvaro the sound of the word "душа " reflects the nature of the soul deeper than in any other language.

The album is decorated with Álvaro photographs made especially for this edition.”

Странствия: блуждания и погружения. Городские сны

I am happy to be part of this compilation, created by the label 'День забытой жизни' (Day Of Life Forgotten).

The theme of the compilation is the City. Different artists created sounds inspired by specific locations, and others about an abstract idea.

My contribution to this compilation is the track 'Kiev', which I made under the name of my project 'Sebastian In Dream'. 

In this track I made a progressive sound impression about that city. During my firsts days there I could perceive a lot of energy, a big mixture of architectonical styles, different influences from different civilizations, etc. But as weeks passed by I could feel the deep sadness that dwells within that city. A sadness that subtly beats within the streets, buildings, parks... This progressive impressions are reflected in the track.

(When I arrived to Kiev, in the airport the security guards started to check my synths, and they moved accidentally all the knobs and settings of them. I composed the first part of the track with those random settings provoked by the security guards. I just enjoyed the dadaist circumstance to create the sound intro).

THE ADVENT OF ANGELS

'The Advent Of Angels". Somehow a second part of "A Hundred Seas Of Light". Mostly inspired

by the Persian Sufi poet Attar.  With these albums I am kind of merging modern classical music with experimental, sometimes noise, stuff.