El demà, by Balago

El demà

by Balago

supported by

	/

Streaming + Download

Includes unlimited streaming via the free Bandcamp app, plus high-quality download in MP3, FLAC and more.

Purchasable with gift card

€5 EUR or more
Record/Vinyl + Digital Album
Vinyl LP

Includes unlimited streaming of El demà via the free Bandcamp app, plus high-quality download in MP3, FLAC and more.

ships out within 6 days

Purchasable with gift card

€14 EUR or more
Compact Disc (CD) + Digital Album
CD

Includes unlimited streaming of El demà via the free Bandcamp app, plus high-quality download in MP3, FLAC and more.

ships out within 6 days

Purchasable with gift card

€10 EUR or more

1.	Àvol 04:07	buy track
2.	Fins a l'últim moment 03:41	buy track
3.	Entornar-me'n 05:25	buy track
4.	L'evidència 01:59	buy track
5.	La consciència de les altres coses 03:34	buy track
6.	El buit 05:49	buy track
7.	Negació 05:13	buy track
8.	L'estrany a qui va imitar 03:05	buy track
9.	El record inclòs 03:28	buy track
10.	A l'exterior 04:43	buy track

about

Five years after “Darder” and seventeen since his debut, Balago starts from scratch again. More alone and isolated from his music surroundings than ever, although this must be seen as something positive and inspiring, David Crespo, with the invaluable help of his inseparable companion Guim Serradesanferm, offers us in “El demà” a complete rethinking of his ideas, culminating in his most imaginative, lucid and dazzling recording yet. Leaving false steps behind, accurate as a sniper, moving to the point of tears, the album features all the most recognizable elements in Balago’s universe –an ambient starting point, the combination of electronic programming and an analogue obsession, flashes of ravishing melancholy, a strong influence of science-fiction, religion and philosophy…-, from a serious, deep and specially inspired point of view, as if Crespo had found that creative excitement which is essential to redefine the course of his band.
A soundtrack for an hypothetical tomorrow marked by alienation, loneliness, despair, misanthropy and the failure of the human being, “El demà” is closer to the ideas of Aldous Huxley, J.G. Ballard, Charles Darwin, Philip K. Dick or Arthur Schopenhauer than to the latest flavor of the month from the electronic scene. Unlike what most people would expect, seclusion and isolationism, both sonically and existentially, feed and power Balago’s musical inspiration. And the result is his gloomiest, most disappointed recording yet, but also his most emotional and seductive one, a disturbing reflection of a dystopian world doomed to disappear.
“El demà” conveys feelings of unrest, defeat and concern to the beat of dark ambient, neoclassical music, cosmic electronica, contemporary music, library music or soundtracks. There are echoes and references to Coil, Oneothrix Point Never, Leyland Kirby, Brian Eno, Burial, Bach, Arvo Pärt, John Carpenter, Angelo Badalamenti, Harold Budd, Forest Swords and many other names that, at some point, have fed or still feed the band’s musical universe. But more than anything else, “El demà” sounds like Balago, who now sounds closer than ever to its own music personality.

David Broc

credits

released May 25, 2018

Produced, recorded and mixed by Balago

Mastered by Guim Serradesanferm

Artwork by 11Invisibles

Foehn Records, 2018

license

about

Balago Barcelona, Spain

discography

Els altres

Oct 2020
El demà

May 2018
Darder

Apr 2013
Extractes d'un diari

Dec 2010
D'aquii

Dec 2008
El segon pis

Dec 2004
Erm

Nov 2001

contact / help

Contact Balago

Streaming and
Download help

Report this album or account

If you like Balago, you may also like:

10: Hope
by One Half Of Bent

featured on Bandcamp Radio Nov 18, 2014
go to album
Hot Plate Only
by Honestly Same

This Chicago quintet use classical and contemporary instrumentation to craft this beautifully contemplative ambient release. Bandcamp New & Notable Nov 2, 2023
go to album
Induction
by Tim Shiel

Tim Shiel’s 'Induction' soundtrack combines the game’s signature theme with ambient work inspired by a time-bending premise. Bandcamp New & Notable Mar 7, 2017
go to album
Duet: Original Soundtrack
by Tim Shiel

Navigating orbiting spheres past a complex maze of falling obstacles is difficult, liking the soundtrack is easy. Bandcamp New & Notable Nov 5, 2013
go to album
New Pleasures
by Arp

featured on Bandcamp Radio May 10, 2022
go to album
Tearing at the Edges of all Restraint
by BLACKLIGHT CHAMELEON

Blacklight Chameleon voyages to the dark side of electronic music, writing songs full of tension and grim intensity. Bandcamp New & Notable Feb 12, 2021
go to album
Nearest Neighbour Tape/Graphic Novel/Download
by Sculpture

featured on Bandcamp Radio Aug 14, 2018
go to album