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Dedicated to Joana, Zahara's mum, who suffered an aggressive lung cancer diagnosed shortly before lockdown, and which the three of us experienced in isolation until the end of 2020.
Phil Spector meets VU, with sunshine expansiveness and an underlying twilight, carried through with Tom Marsh's grooving drums and Dave Campbell’s touch of electronic space textures, a starting point for a new music project of the duo in collaboration with other artists.
In the turmoil of treatment and under pandemic fever in Spain, Ben's father passed away, followed by three more close family members. Through 24hr palliative care at home we managed to write this love song to Joana, who astonishingly kept her sense of humour and sweetness and full acceptance of everything as it came, becoming a true zen master. The song, written in Spanish, depicts a process otherwise unbearable with rawness, with transporting illusions full of care and wonder – it talks about bringing the sea to her when she couldn't go to it any longer, setting up cushioning seaweed to fall into, letting go of walking, and jumping onto a space ship floating through infinity to confront everything together.
The whole thing truly was a psychedelic journey... and the song had to be quick, it was going to be Joana's last birthday and her brain metastasis was relentless.. in the nights, with a baby monitor switched on to keep checking on her, we managed to stay minimally creative and recorded this song with a really shitty guitar which is all we had. Zahara had to sing quietly to not wake her up. It was all very lo-fi. We then sent it to Tom in New York who went straight to his studio and the next morning as we woke we had the drum track in our inbox! He had spent our sleeping hours recording, also with the basic equipment he had access to at the time. The following nights Ben kept adding lead guitars and keys arrangements in the early hours after Zahara had gone to sleep by her mother’s side. We just managed to play the rough cut to her before she lost most of her sense of reality.
In the same way we kept optimistic for her, the song matches Joana's personality, it has that kind of brightness inspite it all.
lyrics
Todo lo que hago lo hago por ti Joana Joana
si me pides el mar lo traigo hasta aquí Joana Joana
...si las tormentas caen sobre ti, en ningún sitio mejor que aquí contigo
Traigo brisas de amor y suelo de alga mullida Joana
para caer las dos sin mucho dolor, te quiero Joana
Eres una mujer cañón y yo lo hago lo mejor que puedo
Tienes la fuerza del sol y eres luz en mi camino
Contigo iré a donde quieras ir
Flotaremos juntas en el infinito
Cógeme de la mano, no te preocupes por tus pies
todo está bien
todo está bien
Combatiremos lo que venga, día a día lo que venga
uah uah uah
uah uah uah
Reina del día y de la noche
súbete a mi nave espacial, te llevaré a donde quieras
uah uah uah
uah uah uah
uah uah uah
credits
released October 14, 2022
Zahara Muñoz-Vicens (vocals, rhythm guitar)
Ben Hardy (lead guitar, keys, bass)
Tom Marsh (drums, percussion)
Dave Campbell (production, electronic textures)
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