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Federico Durand - El estanque esmeralda (2014)

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Purchase the album at http://naturebliss.bandcamp.com/album/el-estanque-esmeralda

Released 3 April 2014
Mastered by Chihei Hatakeyama

I usually like to talk about the memories of my childhood. One day, when my grandparents took me to a trip to the southern mountains and forests in my country, I met these wonderful landscapes for the
first time - larches and the beautiful green colored lakes. During that trip, I suddenly caught a cold but nevertheless, my grandparents took me for a walk around the pond. In my blurry memories, the emerald
color of the water, the wooden bridge and flowers remained inside of me as if it was a dream. Many years later, I visited the Museum of Decorative Arts in Buenos Aires with my wife Lucia and we sat in a
cafe inside the garden. Near our table was an ornamental pond, with lilies and reeds. While looking at the flowers, I suddenly had this vivid impression, and flashback of the old pond that I saw in my childhood
so clearly."El estanque esmeralda" (The Emerald Pond) was made in remembrance of that vision. For this album, I used different kinds of instruments, but I wanted to keep music very simple:
little melodies and cassette tapes, some of them from 30 years ago that I found lying on the streets of my city, Buenos Aires. I hope you will enjoy this wander to the Emerald Pond.
Federico Durand

Original photograph by martinak15, https://www.flickr.com/photos/martinaphotography/10716998823/, released under creative commons license https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/2.0/