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Cançons per a un lent retard
“The impulse to compose this music has been to accompany the slow decay of my father’s life… one way of expressing the anguish and emptiness of seeing and living a life slip away. His death came one month later after the recording.” -Ferran Fages (2007)
Though Fages takes pains to assert that the present album is not a posthumous homage to his father, who died a month after the recording was concluded, and also dedicated it to his father’s caretaker, the music was clearly intended as a reaction to and an observation of what he refers to as “the slow decay of my father’s life”. I take it that it’s safe to translate the title as, “songs for a slow demise”.