{"id":8280,"date":"2021-06-09T00:00:18","date_gmt":"2021-06-09T04:00:18","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/magazineampm.com\/?p=8280"},"modified":"2022-04-30T16:18:20","modified_gmt":"2022-04-30T20:18:20","slug":"love-again-flordeloto-resena","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/magazineampm.com\/en\/love-again-flordeloto-resena\/","title":{"rendered":"Love Again \/ FlorDeLoto"},"content":{"rendered":"

They say that the lotus flower grows in the swamps, that its roots feed on dirty water, on those particles of dust and clay that also make up the mud. That its spiral-shaped petals close and sink into the swamp when night falls to later emerge, with the first light of day, intact. pristine. In an act of true purification. They also say that there are those who associate it with a cosmic energy, with the awakening of consciousness, with the resurrection.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

All of this can be learned with a quick Google search. However\u2014myths aside\u2014the lotus flower is, above all, a beautiful flower. Not much to add after that. Perhaps that this symbol of creation somehow took root in a place in Havana in the most dystopian year of our lives, far from its natural habitat. And when I say \u201ctook root\u201d I use the metaphor, of course; although I would not doubt that in the house of Gianluca Magr\u00ed Rico there was a cult ritual around a pool of dark waters waiting for these herbaceous plants to open up to the world in the morning.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

I can imagine no other reason for the birth of <\/span>loveagain<\/span><\/i>. Or yes: that one day in March 2020 Gianluca and David Mart\u00ednez decided to take advantage of their free time, without live shows, and began to create music. They had the necessary instrumentation for it: cables to connect microphones, guitars, bass, etc.; so on the second floor of that house they began to record. First there were the bases, the melodies; then the sounds began to suggest things: English letters, for example. From that subconscious, sensory and also collective process, floating songs were born, which aspire to wisdom. was born a <\/span>statement:<\/span><\/i>.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

Because before FlorDeLoto \u2014the band that emerged in 2018 in the heat of live performances with a format of bass, guitar, percussion, keyboards and to which they gradually incorporated cello, alto and tenor sax, some brass\u2014 still did not speak so loud. His first self-titled EP, with songs in Spanish, recorded in the PM Records studios, had more than enough \u2014paradoxically\u2014 stridency; he lacked the calm that rests in the 10 songs of this new production.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

Gianluca will say, if asked, that the pandemic gave them the time to take that trip into the deep. Dedicated time, focused energy, more mature musical minds. And it may not be without reason if we think that <\/span>loveagain<\/span><\/i>, the album, was mixed and mastered twice. In the first the result did not convince them; They went for the second. No pressure. In the process they went to cute<\/a>, a sound engineer who helped them find their way. Only when they thought they had a compact work, they left that second floor. It would be March and 2021. Exactly one year later.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n