L’aire del sur from Pablo A. Quiroga Prendes on Vimeo.

That’s the case of Bed, the track that opens “4 naked songs 4 autumn rainy days”.

I was going to enjoy 15 relax days at Santander beaches. To disconnect from work, enjoy the company, and if I got lucky, maybe gather some motivating and inspirational experiences. Travel was on bus, a bit more than two hours.

Most times, at least for me, tunes come up when they want. You have been days chasing an idea or a concept, getting your mind around it, and when you least expect it the thing starts working. So the melody came to me in the first five minutes of the travel. The bus started, drove a bit around the city, and when merging into the highway… There you go, that guitar started resounding in my head. And hey, after all, you are not telling the driver “Excuse me, can you stop the bus at my place for a minute?”. Fifteen wonderful sun days with beach, sea, conversations, relax and long walks were waiting for me. And fifteen days of keeping those notes from going away.

Clear it is that I made it

Just as soon as I arrived I recorded the tune as good as I could. Maybe for that reason the sound is not clean enough. Even though, I chose not to rerecord the guitars once the song started to grow. I liked that oldie feeling. It was like picking up and old recording and instrumenting it today. (”Free as a bird”, you know). Two hours and ready to go.

The down side of this things is having so much time to think about the song. The good part is that by the time you get home the tune is almost finished, and in just a moment you record it.

“Smoke Factory” is eight new folk-rock songs, inspired by Dylan, Pink Floyd, Springsteen, Wilco, The Band, Neil Young, Van Morrison…with influences of the Celtic music. And The Pogues, of course…

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