Hey,

Is there anybody out there? as Roger Waters would say.

We made it. I say we, because it wasn´t only me trying to make it. My partner in crime and dear friend Flavie Mialon shared the burden along the way and until the finish line. When I say we made it, I don´t mean it in a capitalistic way although we were able to tour around Iceland making some income with no less help from luck itself and a God sent Toyota mechanic in the last minute our car generator broke down (just right after our performance in Húsavík a little northeastern town where most whales in Iceland meet). Also thanks to the few people but very very thankful and contributing audience that helped us carry our way around one of the most expensive and genuinely one of the most uninhabitable countries in Europe. The travel was of course astonishingly beautiful. It was a soul and heart fulfilling trip bringing us around through the only road that circles the island with a little Toyota Yaris from 2006 and a bunch of gear I´ve collected over the musical years of my life. We were definitely lucky with the weather eventhough some times, it felt we were gonna get stuck on a gravel road (lol). We made it through or shamely had to take a way back to the “safety” of a better road at times. Mistakes are often overlooked but, in our case, it brought us to some of the most beautiful places we´ve seen in our entire lifes (the road 59 close to the Snaesfellsness peninsula and the 901 which happens to be close to Dettifoss (the most powerful waterfall in Europe)). 

Our setlists at the concerts were generally tight and we shared 3 songs together at each gig, testing the response from the little audience we had at the performances. We were flabbergasted by the care and deep genuine feedback we received at every place we played from the sometimes 3 people that came over. Even I dare to say, intimacywise speaking, the less attendance the merrier. I heard someone say that he heard Bob Dylan once said that “it´s harder to perform to a few people than to a big audience” (or something like that, which might not be true after all) but in my experience, I would say, I felt very comfortable playing for not so many and just a few and I felt more connected in some way with the people attending. My songs gained more meaning as if they were being used in a therapy session which I, by the way, will be forever grateful for. It also felt like this trip was a pioneering trip for musicians like us but this, far from being true, made me realise this way of sharing my music was possible and it made me open my eyes to new possibilities and challenges when it comes to work as a touring musician playing original music. I will be forever grateful to Flavie Mialon for coming along with me on this one with her angelical voice, healing music and honesty as a way of living,

Roger that and see you on the next one!

Love, 

Jorge

P.S: DIO means “do it ourselves” ;) not the long passed heavy metal singing master :(