Work on compositions for Blind River (working title for my next release), which will be a group of linked instrumental guitar pieces, with one vocal track, has started in earnest now that I have assembled the right equipment and got a little beyond the intrusions of necessities from 2016.
Collaborating with my good friend and fellow musician Diego Vargas, who will add vocals to one track that we are collaborating on composing, gives me huge enthusiasm. The song is in Spanish & English, with the bilingual lyrics allowing us to play with meanings.
Personally I love the use of language in songs as pure sound as well defined and understood words. So using 2 different languages for a song allows us to divert attention and of course we don’t know if the listener understands one or both.
I’ve spent many a happy hour listening to beautiful music in languages that are foreign to me, happy with the sounds of the voices and totally secure in that sound, without any need to understand what is being said. Perhaps this displays one of the reasons why music is often called a universal language.