I Had A Major Depressive Episode And Made An Album Out Of It

Hi there, Pandas!

Mi name is Nico, I'm from Argentina but I've lived in Spain for 5 years before I got back to do my first solo album.

On september 2017 I got a Major Depressive Episode (I knew later that that's how it's called.)

I didn't wanted to talk or do anything with anyone. My body pulled the brakes for me. I was disconnected from reality.

I'm a musician, but all my professional activities (as well as my social life) suddenly stop when this occured.

When I got back home, 'rescued' by my family, I started therapy and came out this thing that I wanted to do since I was a child: my own album. I had the songs, the time, and nothing to lose. So I started going for it.

I wanted to be great, recorded at the best studios I knew, but I brought no equipment with me, so all I had were an spanish and an electric guitar that were around, a laptop, and a mobile phone.

So, basically, that's what I've used to record what I considered 'demos' first, but as time went by, ended up being the masters.

It took me a while accept that my first album wasn't what I always dreamt that it would be; but, hey, in the end, it was an album.

I made the physical copies myself (printing the booklet on my parents printer at home) and recently I've uploaded it to the major streaming platforms and it seems to go fair enough!

The album is called "Albañilería Fontanería Electricidad" (which translates into 'Masonry Plumbing Electricity.)' I wasn't sure about a title, so one day I was overwhelmed with that issue and I chose the first thibg I ran to: a plumber's van.

The 9 songs are as biographical as they can be, on their own terms and the main reason I decided to publish them was that maybe there's somebody like me out there to whom this songs may say something. It happened to me (and still happens:) when I found a song that represented what I was feeling and got to put in words and music what I couldn't express, it was an immediate bond with the artist and it's work. And I thin that that is the whole purpose of any art form, transmit emotions.

Here it's the cover (which I made myself as well, I studied graphic design on Spain) and the album on Spotify. Even though it is in spanish, I could translate the lyrics if you want me to, but, anyway, music by itself it's a wide enough language.

https://open.spotify.com/album/2LJsq5foC5tAX7HljdsG4n?si=4PCh-ySNQVCfoBM4skgk0g

Enjoy and have a great day!