Manoel Macia / Rafael Pacha
Lost Diary
May 2011
This album has been pending for almost six years, long have we known.
After a brief meeting and a presentation of our mutual friend Alain Piñero, at the stairs of entry to the Palacio de Congresos de Madrid, to attend a concert a few years ago made by King Crimson until we finally met during a Guitar Craft course in Los Molinos (Madrid) in 2005.
In this course, we were surprised by the creation of a song dedicated to one of the participants, Hiroshi Iketami, manufacturer of the picks we used in the course, who could only speak Japanese, but he understood almost perfectly the gestural language of that small group of Spanish who
slept in the same room. Thus arose "Hiroshi Speaks / Hiroshi 's Pick ", later recorded.
The work has been “at a distance” through the network, transferring files and emails until we’ve polished everything.
Despite this, we noticed the presence of each other while working on our respective home studios, every time Life allowed each other to work.
Even thought we made it fast (it has been composed and recorded in two short months), the way of working has been quiet, knowing that we had all the necessary time, as we know that we do not expect any mass of feverish fans wanting to buy the Album.
Quite the contrary, the reason for this creation has been to respond to Creative Impulse, force of nature that possesses us from time to time and by experience, we know that it is impossible to silence, and if we answer to it, and call us back to imaginary places that has no time or space and takes out us as songwriters from the reality of normal life.
From all this and much more, arouse this LOST DIARY
(All lyrics and texts by Rafael Pacha)
Manoel Macía /Rafael Pacha
Diario Perdido.
Mayo 2011
Este álbum ha sido una asignatura pendiente desde hace casi seis años, el tiempo que hace que nos conocemos.
Tras un encuentro y una presentación fugaz de nuestro común amigo Alain Piñero, en las escalinatas de entrada al Palacio de Congresos de Madrid, para presenciar un concierto de King Crimson transcurrieron unos años hasta que realmente nos conocimos durante un curso de Guitar Craft en Los Molinos (Madrid), en el año 2005.
En este curso, nos sorprendimos creando un tema dedicado a uno de los participantes, Hiroshi Iketami, fabricante de las púas oficiales que se usaban en el curso, que sólo sabía hablar japonés, pero que comprendía casi perfectamente el idioma gestual del pequeño grupo de españoles que dormíamos en la misma habitación. De ahí surgió “Hiroshi speaks/Hiroshi’s Pick”, que posteriormente grabamos.
El trabajo, ha sido a distancia, a través de la red, transfiriéndonos archivos y correos electrónicos hasta que hemos pulido todo. Pese a esto, hemos notado la presencia del otro mientras cada uno trabajaba según su vida le permitía hacerlo.
Pese a la rapidez (se ha compuesto y grabado en dos meses escasos), la forma de trabajo ha sido tranquila, sabiendo que poseíamos todo el tiempo necesario, ya que no nos esperaba ninguna masa de enfervorecidos fans que quisieran comprar el cedé.
Muy por el contrario, el motivo de esta creación ha sido responder al Impulso Creativo, fuerza de la naturaleza que nos posee de vez en cuando y que por experiencia, es imposible acallar, y que si se responde a su llamada, nos transporta a lugares imaginarios carentes de tiempo y espacio, y que nos saca, como compositores de la realidad a la que nos fuerza la vida.
De todo esto y de mucho más, surge este Diario Perdido
(Letras y textos de Rafael Pacha)
credits
released May 22, 2011
Instruments used:
Manoel:
- Fender Acustic guitar JG/12CE
- Ovation Custom Legend 1869
- Gibson Howard Roberts Fusion
- Paul Reed Smith Standard 24
Rafael:
- Fender Strato American Special
- Epiphone Les Paul Custom EB
- Alhambra CWJ Acoustic guitar
- Ibanez PF50-12 Acoustic guitar
- Johny Guitars Florentine Mandolin
- Karina Tenor Banjo
- 10-Strings Bouzouki by David Freshwater
- Rock Bass 4-Strings
- Drum Set Jin Bao
- Pluggins: Xpand, DB-33, Vacuum, Addictive Drums, Mini Grand Piano
- Appalachian hourglass Dulcimer (self constructed Kit)
- Hohner soprano recorder.
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