AGUA SALÁ

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In 2016 I went to Colombia, I arrived in Bogotá with no plans and a few weeks later, having followed a chain of friends of friends of friends I found myself in an apartment in colourful Cartagena on the edge of the Atlantic ocean.

 

I was lucky enough to be staying with Cristhian Salazar Rivera, a talented bass player and composer, and one day he came running into my room, inspired. "I've got a melody in my head I need you to sing". He played some chords on an acoustic guitar and I sang over them, the words flowed out easily and improvised. It was almost as if the song existed in the ether and we tapped into it.

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We recorded the full version a few weeks later with Mario Evans in his Cartagena studio, and recorded the footage for the video on a GoPro camera a friend had lent me to document my journey.

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In Summer 2017 I returned to Colombia to do a mini promotional tour for the single and my EP Tropical Soul and we launched 'Agua Salá' with a concert at the Hard Rock Café.

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This song is very special to me. It's a kind of testament to the power that music has to open doors into different worlds, to unite people across cultures. Everywhere I traveled in Colombia, new friends would reiterate that musicians are magicians. This song is a little bit of that magic.

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