"Canções de Ninguém"- New Album- Marc Planells

"Canções de Ninguém"- New Album- Marc Planells

An acoustic journey through my musical universe on my first album of original music. I ask your collaboration to help finance this album so that it becomes a reality

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An acoustic journey through my musical universe on my first album of original music. I ask your collaboration to help finance this album so that it becomes a reality

"Canções de Ninguém"  translated as "Nobody's Songs '' is the title of my first solo album. A dream that I wanted to realize for a long time. A set of eight original musics, some are songs and others are instrumental music. The influences are quite diverse, but maybe Música do Mediterraneo would be the best label for this record.

I decide to start this Crowdfunding campaign to help cover some of the many expenses involved in the process of recording a fully self-produced disc. The campaign works as a pre-sale system for the album, it is in a way an advance purchase of the album.

Your help will make all the difference. Thanks!

I leave some more information and details of the album here for the most curious.

 

Where does the music come from? Are we creators or mere receivers, channeling the intangible, that which vibrates in the heart of consciousness and that only art can communicate? “Canções de Ninguem” gives name to this vision of music as being uncreated, immanent from the nature of the soul simultaneously organic, in eternal becoming and recreation. This album is born out of the need to compile and record some of the original compositions that have come to me in recent years. Some instrumental and others sung, in song format.

My career as a musician is quite unique. I have a strong connection with the ancient and ancestral through the traditions and ways of doing antiquity, the peoples and cultures that once inhabited these lands where we now live. These are some of the reasons that led me to travel to places where ancestral cultures still live, being part of everyday life, hence my desire to travel to countries like India, Turkey, Egypt and Morocco .. All these experiences marked my artistic identity intensely, creating an impact on my way of perceiving art and music.  This imagery that creates my musical reality was not only stimulated by the various trips to the East, the fact that I have lived in Portugal in the last eleven years and all the tours that have emerged here has also had a great impact to enrich my musical vision. In Portugal I also absorbed the different forms of traditional singing from Adufeiras, Alentejo singing to fado, which soon made me establish bridges with traditional singing such as flamenco, khayal from India, or Arab voices.

Through the instruments from different parts of the world, which I play and which have become my means of expression, the unique sounds of these compositions are born. Without looking for any kind of superfluous exoticism at any time. The instrumentation I use is based exclusively on acoustic instruments and from different cultures, such as Sitar from India, Robab Afghan, Saz or Oud from Turkey and the Middle East… Instruments that I have studied and deepened over the years and that now they are my main means of expression, incorporating and respecting the aesthetic forms of each culture, but at the same time trying to transcend them, thus creating my own language and musical aesthetics.

This project unites several musicians who have crossed my path, musicians that I appreciate as artists and performers. The musicians who are going to participate in this album have very different origins, each with their very different culture as well, but with something in common: the need to express themselves through music. They are: the Spanish singer Laura Santos, the Indian singer Shibani Sur, the Portuguese singer Mariana Root, the Ney (Arabic flute) by Fernando Depiaggi, the Bansuri (Indian flute) by Sunil Pariyar, the Double Bass by Francesco Valente, the Persian Santur by Nuno Silva, Percussions by Ricardo Passos, Baltazar Molina, Alex Guitard, Francisco cabral, Nataniel Melo, Pep Terricabres and Sebastian Scheriff to Lyra and Yalil tambur by Carlos Ramirez, Percussions and Dilruba by Miriam Encinas, Dave Bodd's Irish Bodhran, Violin by  Mariam, and Adriano Diaz's Clarinet.

Have a good listening!

 

About the author

Marc Planells Safont

Born in Barcelona, in 1980. He lives in Portugal since 2009. He is a multi-instrumentalist, plays different instruments such as: Sitar, Oud, Lavta, Afghan Rubab, Saz, Fretless Guitar, Jaltarang.
He does musical training and studies modern music at the Conservatory of the Liceu de Barcelona. At the same time, he studies singing and vocal technique with several masters. He integrates several groups in Catalonia where he works as a musician and composer for various groups and plays. In Portugal, he participates as a musician in the last theater play directed by Maria João Pires, “Dream of a summer night” by W. Shakespeare, which was presented in different national auditoriums.
He has already made countless study trips around the world, especially to the East to deepen his musical studies, it is in India that he has been doing intensive residences for several years under the tutelage of some Hindustani music gurus (Singing and Sitar) and Jall Tarang . Due to his interest and passion for world music, he also travels to Egypt, Turkey, Morocco, Germany where he studies several instruments: Oud, Saz, Robab Afgão, Lavta…
He plays and collaborates with different groups at national and international level such as: Terrakota, Orquestra Todos, Selam, Anaidcram, Yogi estragong, Terraignota, Trobadors, Musicians of the Tagus, Ludovice Ensemble. He has developed a self-taught work in the visual arts: in painting and drawing. As well as in the construction of musical instruments, and the reconstruction of string instruments.

Budget and due dates


I will be Sending rewards from the end of June 2021

The amount obtained will be to reduce the expenses of:

Recordings 1400 eur
Cachet Musicians 1200eur
Mixing and mastering 800 eur
Graphic design 250eur
Industrial replication of CDs 1200 euros
200 eur licenses
Promotion 200 eur
PPL commission 295 eur

Total expenses 5545 eur

Value requested to the campaign 3200 eur

 

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OBRIGADO !!!

Obrigado a todos os que ja ajuadaram para fazer este disco possivel. Grato Thank you to all of you who allready help to make this album come true.

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    OBRIGADO !!!

    Obrigado a todos os que ja ajuadaram para fazer este disco possivel. Grato
    Thank you to all of you who allready help to make this album come true.

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  • Anonymous

    31/05/2021 - 14:33

  • Marc Planells Safont

    31/05/2021 - 14:25

  • Ali Shahrokni

    31/05/2021 - 06:53

    Good luck brother

  • Cat Raiz

    30/05/2021 - 22:54

    Querido Mark... muitos sucessos e lindo caminho! <3

  • Josep Sangenis

    30/05/2021 - 20:32

    Sort pel nou disc

  • Filipa Alves

    30/05/2021 - 19:40

    Marc, I wish all the best and hope you can share your album with the world. We all need that in our life’s. Thank u for be present in Manu’s YTT ?

  • Paulo Rodrigues

    30/05/2021 - 17:21

    Grande Marc é com prazer que te envio um abraço e uma ajudinha

  • Rishi Ji

    30/05/2021 - 15:11

    thank you for your Music!

  • Shiv Kumar Singh

    30/05/2021 - 12:20

    bom trabalho

  • Cid Carmo

    29/05/2021 - 22:30

  • Manuel Cubero Cid

    29/05/2021 - 16:51

    Para que tu camino musical siga siendo fructífero. Felicidades Marc!

  • Alzira Melo

    29/05/2021 - 16:35

  • Xenia Kern

    29/05/2021 - 08:24

  • Marc Planells Safont

    28/05/2021 - 09:44

  • Maria Bernhofer

    27/05/2021 - 16:46

  • Anonymous

    27/05/2021 - 08:51

  • Anonymous

    26/05/2021 - 18:44

  • Ana Plantier

    25/05/2021 - 19:05

    Molte Força Marc! Que vagi tot molt bé!

  • Marc Planells Safont

    25/05/2021 - 09:51

  • Ana Teles

    24/05/2021 - 21:32

    Muito sucesso com o projector, Marc! Sou alunas da Diana é já te ouvi tocar algumas vezes.