One hot summer day, I headed due south from London and crossed France and Spain on my road bike. Challenging it was, yet beautiful, emotional and colourful all at once - while pedalling thousands of kilometres, the journey brought me closer to my innermost core.

Upon my return home, I wished to express all the intense feelings and sensations I experienced on the road in my own way - the language of music.

The metamorphosis was already underway when I became aware of the duende and after digging a bit deeper, I immediately sensed that it was this feeling which touched me on my journey, giving me strength and letting me connect with people and their land more profoundly.

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‘el duende is a force not a labour, a struggle not a thought - El duende is not in the throat: el duende surges up, inside, from the soles of the feet.’

Federico García Lorca