“Duende, an idea as told by Federico Lorca about 100 years ago, is a vital concept and realization around art and practitioners of it that should be more popular. Although vague in its description, Lorca makes a great clarifying point that “Duende” is the dark matter that makes great art incredible, that makes incredible art touched by God. It absolves itself from form and is solely attainable when mortality and sacrifice has properly been addressed and executed, respectively.

“Duende” as an adjective was first brought to my attention after my panel at Harvard University by Rafael Moure-Eraso, the narrator of the project and the father of this album’s mixing/mastering engineer. It fascinated me that I had never heard of this concept before and after reading Lorca’s speech about it from a century ago I was enamored by the idea of bringing awareness to a pivotal detail of all great arts.