In 2012, compelled by what he’d read in the news and seen on the TV, Chilean musician Juan Pablo Abalo
decided to write an album that would confront the sexual abuses
perpetrated by Catholic priests in Chile that had recently hit the
headlines. “In Chile it is a problem because the church has power,” says
Abalo today. “It has been hiding [things] and manipulating [people]
through faith.”
The result of Abalo’s need to meditate on this subject became Canciones de Misa, an 8-track album whose song titles (“El Pastor”, “La Confesion”, “Padre Nuestro”) clearly show where Abalo projected his songwriting. His voice and guitar-playing take centre-stage on the album, pushing these songs – full of misplaced trust and abuses of power with mutliple biblical references and a constant sinister underbelly – forward but he is joined by strings, piano, organs and bass for a multi-layered production that adds a sense of grandiose, and power, to these intimate portraits.
http://www.soundsandcolours.com/articles/chile/holy-week-exclusive-juan-pablo-abalos-canciones-de-misa/
The result of Abalo’s need to meditate on this subject became Canciones de Misa, an 8-track album whose song titles (“El Pastor”, “La Confesion”, “Padre Nuestro”) clearly show where Abalo projected his songwriting. His voice and guitar-playing take centre-stage on the album, pushing these songs – full of misplaced trust and abuses of power with mutliple biblical references and a constant sinister underbelly – forward but he is joined by strings, piano, organs and bass for a multi-layered production that adds a sense of grandiose, and power, to these intimate portraits.
http://www.soundsandcolours.com/articles/chile/holy-week-exclusive-juan-pablo-abalos-canciones-de-misa/