Rundle Mountain as seen from Sleeping Buffalo, at the Banff National Park, during my first experience as Artist in Residence at The Banff Centre For Arts And Creativity. This would be so deeply transformative that it would lead me even to the decision of abandoning Argentina with an uncertain course, without a plan, and without much money, in the search of ways to further my dreams of music and poetry.
“Regarding the recording, this is the song that best describes the feeling that predominated in the creation of Unterwegs. It is all about joy in this tune. I was meeting with my friend/colleague/ally Pablo Méndez, in Europe; we were meeting, as in the past, to do what we love, after a confusing, sometimes dark, period of my life. As I told you in another letter, these days with Pablo were the days that I called jokingly-and-not-so something like “our meeting at the exit of the circles of hell.”
— Excerpt from my newsletter ‘Message in a bottle’.
“Copo Vazio” is a song by Gilberto Gil, composed in the year 1974 for Chico Buarque, whose music had been banned by the last Military Dictatorship in Brazil.