Tip:
Highlight text to annotate it
X
My first approach to music was as an instrumentalist.
I longed to become an artist.
Later on in life I began to share,
to combine artistic projects with production endeavors.
I always think of myself as a person who can juggle several roles at a time...
yet I consider myself a team player.
Uruguay, where this project was born, is an immigrant country
and it's heavily influenced by Argentina, Brazil and mainly Europe.
It was here where a clash of cultures came together.
The American continent’s essence at its finest: a new land built on an array of mixes.
From the get-go CAMPO was based on the idea of collaborative efforts,
it's several people coming together...
from different fields of work: composition, arrangements and production.
It’s definitely not an easy task to self-produce your own music,
that’s why it’s great to count on someone like Gustavo Santaolalla to come in and say:
“Hey, I think this should be more like this", or "This is great" and so on.
We recorded the album at LA’s Sunset Sound, a classic recording studio in LA.
To do that in LA, a city with such history and tradition in sound recording...
It gave me a completely different vision,
when I listened to CAMPO’s music here in Uruguay, the tracks sounded a bit too serious to me.
When I went over the songs again in LA with these guys...it all sounded so fresh.
I got to listen to it from a North American point of view, from a different context,
it sounded fresh and almost naïf.
Each piece of music is an interpretation, like a search.
For La Marcha Tropical we got together with Ellen at a studio and improvised.
From that improvisation and other stuff I brought in,
together with the music base we created with the band
and our interaction with her...
it all blossomed into La Marcha Tropical.
Sometimes the process by which CAMPO’s music is made has so many layers and so many moments
It’s great when you hear the final result of what you consider a well-rounded track...
You think:"If you knew where this music actually came from!"
1987 is a track that we made several versions of, the one that made it to the album
has this cha-cha-cha original rhythm
mixed with a drum sample with a sort of twist quality.
On top of this background lies a construction of guitars and keyboards,
adding an 80’s vibe that evokes new wave and British dark ambient music.
And even on top of that wall we worked with Jorge Drexler to deliver a melody filled with alteration
and those jazzy touches he enjoys so much
The sensitivity of the music you’ll find in CAMPO is not the sort of retro-sensitivity of going back to a place.
On the contrary, it’s about creating a space that never existed.
By mixing elements from very different worlds we’ve created this new reality...
a new way to comprehend beauty.