Canicas

Canicas is a collage of my recent lives, brought together in the shape of a quartet. The album is one more step toward facing the concrete urge to share.Lots of late evenings fine-detuning ideas with my guitar and my voice, making recordings, and then trying out the music with the band and seeing it come to life is probably the best feeling there is. That moment in rehearsal when, for the first time, you hear all the elements coming together, and all the expression that the musicians bring to the music, is one of the most satisfying / disappointing experiences.As a collage, the pieces have very different influences. Canicas means marbles in Spanish. As a child, I used to play with them with my friends. We would try to hit each other’s marbles in order to win them. They all had different sizes and colours, and we were fascinated by their uniqueness. They were probably the most precious things we could possess.These pieces are, in a way, very precious canicas for me, and now I’m offering them to everyone to have and play with.
- Martin Theurillat

Line up:
Martin Theurillat - Guitar / Compositions
Jaka Arh - Saxophone
Nadav Erlich - Double Bass
Iago Fernández - Drums


Features: Francesca Gaza - Voice on "Canicas"
Milda Mačiulaitytė - Voice on "Tides"
Ana Çop - Voice on "Kakor v mraku svelta luna"

Artwork: Maria Von Rütte

Mixing and Mastering: Patrik Rosso
Except on "Mildux" (Jaka Arh/Martin Theurillat)