{"id":22392,"date":"2025-02-24T19:35:31","date_gmt":"2025-02-24T19:35:31","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/castthedice.org\/?p=22392"},"modified":"2025-02-24T19:35:31","modified_gmt":"2025-02-24T19:35:31","slug":"joan-arnau-pamies-set-to-release-new-album-guidelines-fonaments-in-april","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/castthedice.org\/?p=22392","title":{"rendered":"Joan Arnau P\u00e0mies set to release new album, Guidelines\/Fonaments<\/em>, in April"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Photo: Iolanda Sebe\u0301<\/p><\/div>\n

Born in Catalonia, and raised in Boston and Chicago before returning to Catalonia, Joan Arnau P\u00e0mies<\/a> is a composer, producer, and multi-instrumentalist with a vast and diverse work that includes live electronics, acoustic instruments, atypical forms of music notation, electroacoustic pieces, and free improvisation. His 15-year career encompasses a huge range of music; from classical and modern music to jazz, from glitch to avant-garde pop, setting himself apart as a versatile musician who eschews genre conventions in favour of cultivating his own voice through a liberating musical space.<\/p>\n

P\u00e0mies has announced the release of his new album Guidelines\/Fonaments<\/em>, a deeply personal and genre-defying record that expands his own sonic explorations and blurs the lines between solo piano music, ambient, contemporary classical music, and free improvisation. \u201cIt is an intensely personal exploration, inviting listeners into a meditative state to reflect on the synthesis of diverse sound worlds and experience yet-to-be-known aesthetic perspectives,\u201d P\u00e0mies reveals this insight. He continues:<\/p>\n

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\u201cThe album\u2019s title, Guidelines\/Fonaments, reflects the principles I\u2019ve developed since returning to Catalonia\u2014foundations for what I see as a groundbreaking evolution of my aesthetic. The bilingual title\u2014in English and Catalan\u2014is deeply personal, a reflection of my own life (my wife is American and my kids are dual citizens), and a metaphor meant to express how I see music: a historical product in constant struggle between past traditions and present aesthetic concerns. The pieces that form this record are my \u201cguidelines\u201d as well as my \u201cfoundations\u201d: they present ideas that have been important to me for many years but also show new principles upon which to create future music.\u201d<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n

In his commitment to exploring his own creativity and reflecting his vision on the album, P\u00e0mies performed, recorded, produced, mixed, and mastered Guidelines\/Fonaments<\/em> himself, over the course of four years, in various places.<\/p>\n

Preceding the album release on April 4th through his own Protomaterial Records<\/a>, he has shared two singles, ‘Esperan\u00e7a’, which means hope, featuring guest vocals from his former student Martina Perpiny\u00e0, and ‘Pes’. Of the latter, P\u00e0mies says:<\/p>\n

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“In Catalan, \u201cpes\u201d means weight. I think of this as an apparently simple piece of music, similarly to the famous prelude in C Major by J.S.Bach of the Well-Tempered Clavier. The weight here refers to the importance of harmony as a grounding element of music.”<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n

Immediately enthralling, both tracks display the boundless scope of the upcoming Guidelines\/Fonaments<\/em>. Take a listen below.<\/p>\n