Catalonian composer, producer and multi-instrumentalist Joan Arnau Pàmies is set to release his new album Guidelines/Fonaments on April 4, 2025 via his Protomaterial Records imprint. Lead single “Esperança” is a masterclass in layered, minimal rhythms, textures and tone. Moody and faintly luminous piano melody serves as an emotional context in which guest vocalist Martina Perpinyà’s introspective and expressive delivers lines about persevering against what seem like discouraging forces and in spite of one’s fatigue and malaise, in spite of one’s perceptions of what you thought you were struggling for and to accept changing circumstances without losing sight of what’s most important. It seems like a particularly poignant song in these times especially since the song isn’t premised on being tough. It is a quiet and downtempo piece like a bit of abstract acid jazz. But in taking that form it shows how the will to persevere can look and sound like grace and the embrace of one’s human limitations as a source of strength and resistance because it is attainable to just about everyone. Listen to “Esperança” on YouTube and follow Joan Arnau Pàmies at the links below.
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