My Argentine-American band, Aerolínea. Debut video and fluffy web article

[polara]

https://spillmagazine.com/spill-video-premiere-aerolinea-what-moves-you/

A few deets for y'all.

Victoria and I have been writing and recording together for about 18 months. She has several albums out as Victoria Real, and is a badass player: studied under Robert Fripp doing Guitar Craft for a few years in Spain, and performed with League of Crafty Guitarists. We co-write everything.

We recorded the instruments in our home studios and sent WAVs back and forth. I mixed in Logic Pro, and then we met in Miami to do vocals. One track has live drums by the amazing Kellii Scott (Failure, Veruca Salt, Pink, Christina Aguilera) which he recorded in LA.

Gear. Let's see... she played her Sterling St. Vincent, and I did everything on my Oopegg, and for amps we either used Logic's plug-ins or Guitar Rig. We both have Aston Origin mics and Audient interfaces for vox. I played my Fender Mustang bass, and some stuff was samples of stuff we recorded in the wild, like trains or machines. In the video I'm playing a Kauer I was trying out, but I'm back to the Oopegg now.

We did the video in Buenos Aires in an old mansion. Nico was a fun director to work with, but man those smoke machines get to you after a while. The entire album comes out November 28, and we have another video dropping in November. We also did a live-in-studio-with-audience performance in Bueno Aires, which was professionally filmed, and we should have that from the editor soon: the photo below is from that performance. Started booking dates for a South American tour in January 2025.

As I'm going to be walking away from the corporate world soon, I figured I could either get into golf, buy a boat, or pretend to be a touring musician. The last option seems most fun.

Edited October 15, 2024 by polara

[mrjamiam]

Barbaro!

[Dutchman]

On 10/15/2024 at 2:09 PM, polara said:

 buy a boat, or pretend to be a touring musician.

I toured as a Tourney Pro for Skeeter Boats in the Walleye division for many years. It can be awesome and brutal with weather and big waters.

I had already done the band touring before my career as a Respiratory Therapist. Being in a band was with out a doubt the most fun adventure in my life. So 2 thumbs up 👍👍for doing the band gig. You sure meet a lot of really smart talented people!!!

Edited October 20, 2024 by Dutchman

[polara]

3 hours ago, Dutchman said:

I toured as a Tourney Pro for Skeeter Boats in the Walleye division for many years. It can be awesome and brutal with weather and big waters.

I had already done the band touring before my career as a Respiratory Therapist. Being in a band was with out a doubt the most fun adventure in my life. So 2 thumbs up 👍👍for doing the band gig. You sure meet a lot of really smart talented people!!!

That is amazing! Your careers sound like they would make a good book.

In 2025 doing original music means that unless you're an "entertainer" backed by big dollars, you'd be financially better off stocking shelves in an Amazon warehouse. I suppose I'm now sort of "touring" for a living, as I'm at about 700,000 miles on Delta and do 20 or 30 round trips a year.

But I've been very lucky professionally, and working for a wealth advisory firm has helped me understand how to invest with some success. Missus Polara and I hit our "number" in 2023 and while we feel too young to retire, screw it. Today I read that Chris Hoy, six-time Olympic gold medalist, has been diagnosed with terminal cancer at 48. We don't know how many healthy days we are given.

I love my family, music, art, and nature more than my career, and every Monte Carlo simulation we run gives a 99% chance of retiring well. For me, "touring" is going to be traveling to interesting places, punctuated with playing music for a few locals.

Edited October 20, 2024 by polara

[velorush]

Always enjoy everything you put out!

Congratulations on the new gig and having a plan!