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Dear everyone, here I am trying to catch up on all the content I was able to post on Instagram because it’s a way faster platform than WordPress… At this stage I am not even trying to keep this in chronological order! :-))) So here are the posts I wrote when I came back from Waking Life festival last week, as well as the reel of the Public Records show that started my US tour on May 2nd, which I only published last week as I was recovering from a virus.

But first 2 of the very few interviews I did on my last album Libres antes del final, one for Radio Primavera Sound from mid-June which you can watch or listen to on Soundcloud, Mixcloud or Spotify, and one for KLOF magazine – READ HERE from late May

WAKING LIFE, OR THE TOUR ENDING I WASN’T EXPECTING – WRITTEN ON 23rd JUNE 2026.
Yesterday I played my new album Libres antes del final @thrilljockey live at @wakinglife.pt near Crato, Portugal, for around 6000 people, closing a festival that is a unique moment of the year for around 12000 people who gather there year after year. I had been invited to play since 2017, but only last year did I feel confortable and confident enough to go for it, when I started to feel that the new album was going to translate to a powerful live show.
I never would have imagined that the end of the festival, on a Monday evening, is *the* moment of strongest attendance at the main stage, with all other stages closed, everyone exhausted and happy from the previous 5 days. I had such an amazing time and feel so grateful to Ellen de Nys for insisting for so many years and giving me this opportunity to close the festival. I also won’t forget the complete silence before I played the last song, “Amor”.
The heat was brutal, dust everywhere, the site stunning, the architecture blending in, eschewing screens and conspicuous lighting, letting the music, the place and the people be the centre pieces.
The sheep who were allowed to enter the hotel grounds were suffering from the heat too, and the scenery bears the mark of drought, so it is also sad to see this and the consequences for all living things.
I also met people from the Middle East and it was heartbreaking to see their sorrow, and a reminder of how relative my problems are.
Thanks to the whole @wakinglife.pt crew and volunteers for being so adorable and professional and to everyone who felt the music, made me feel you were with me as I played and told me so afterwards 🙏🙏🙏

PS: the festival has a no photo policy which I tried to respect at the maximum, hence no photos of the show or crowd.

MEMORIES FROM LONG PLAY FESTIVAL, PUBLIC RECORDS, NYC, 2nd May 2026 – WRITTEN ON 3rd JUNE 2026
The tour is over, and sure enough, my immune system went down and I caught a virus last week that has made me feel in the flesh how close to an actual burnout I’ve operated for the past few months, especially taking into account the special circumstances of my dad passing away just a couple of weeks before going on tour. 
I did it though, 31 000 kms just for the tour, and today this footage from my show at the mind-blowing  @publicrecordsnyc in New York brought a big smile to my face, because seriously, even with a phone recording, if you put on headphones you can hear how potent that soundsystem is 😍
Thank you so much Francis Harris @francisscissor Sruly Lazaros and Bang on a Can @bangonacan for having me for the second time and this time as part of Long Play festival and Chris Weingarten @octavedowner for the amazing sound delivered with the kind of enthusiasm and good humour one does not forget (and great lighting too!!!)  
A huge thank you if you came to the show and special for the 📷 @glasser_ @daddy_garbage @swbain @wkc.ckw
Gear: @moogsynthesizers Matriarch #moogmatriarch

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