{"id":202390,"date":"2026-03-15T11:00:00","date_gmt":"2026-03-15T17:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/errr-magazine.com\/?p=202390"},"modified":"2026-03-14T19:55:42","modified_gmt":"2026-03-15T01:55:42","slug":"entonces-las-cenizas-flotan","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/errr-magazine.com\/english\/entonces-las-cenizas-flotan\/","title":{"rendered":"Entonces las cenizas flotan"},"content":{"rendered":"

How was this song born: with an image, a phrase, a melody... or something else?<\/strong>
The album was born in the middle of the pandemic, while I was trying to bring out ideas on the piano. I remember perfectly that I started recording some ambient layers that fascinated me; it was very different from anything I had done before, and I decided to save that demo as \u201cThen the Ashes Float,\u201d a name that really stuck with me. I realized that it had to be something more than just a song or a demo.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Before this, I had an experimental electronic music project. However, I always had the urge to bring together my training as a pianist and my deep love for folk, contemporary classical and impressionist arrangements, and jazz, which ultimately led me to completely change my path as a composer.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

I\u2019ve always had a fixation with nature: how a plant mutates into a flower, or how leaves fade in order to survive certain seasons; all of this happening right before our eyes. Its \u201cdeath\u201d isn\u2019t really death, but rather a mutation of itself, a way to adapt and look back at the past with peace. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Little by little, as I encountered more references like the films of Miyazaki<\/a><\/strong> and their music, the cinema of Ryusuke Hamaguchi<\/a><\/strong>, electronic music such as Leon Vynehall\u2019s<\/a><\/strong>, Nothing is Still<\/em>, and folk like De Todas las Flores<\/em> from Natalia Lafourcade<\/a><\/strong>, among others, I wanted to tell a story in which the main character notices a heron in the distance, among the mountains. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Strangely, something tells them they must go where it is. In trying to follow it, they face several dangers that they must leap over and \u201cfly\u201d above; they have to leave their fears behind, look back with love, and realize how fleeting the past is, so they can move with the wind, die, and reemerge as floating ashes. As a concept, I think the album deals with death\u2014not so much physical death, but spiritual death, which is necessary in order to rise again, to bloom, and to float.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Who worked or collaborated on this song and how did they contribute to its creation?<\/strong>
This entire project has been self-managed\u2014from composition, arrangement, production, recording, editing, and mixing. I\u2019ve always wanted to release a long-form project that was completely managed by me creatively. The only part I wasn\u2019t involved in was the mastering of the songs, which was done by Sebastian Garrido<\/a><\/strong>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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How long did it take to take its final form?<\/strong>
Roughly four years\u2014from the initial concept and first idea to experimenting with different sounds and textures.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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