Song Review/ Instrumental : Claudio Olachea’s ‘Hoy Como Ayer’
Claudio Olachea is a Los Angeles based musician, composer and instrumentalist who creates music like feelings form. He details progressions down to the nuances of experiences. It’s like telling a really good story. Immersing the listener in ways that they fall into this reality, this way of seeing and feeling. His latest release is ‘Hoy Como Ayer’ or ‘Today Like Yesterday’ is a dreamy instrumental that dotes on nostalgia, shapes it, gives it form and then lifts it into a romanticist story. Perhaps yesterday was the day something really special happened.
Drawing in momentous evolutions, the neo jazz flow is gradual and complete. The ambient layers reveal the luminous treasures lying underneath; as if the embers of yesterday are burning to come alive again like the fire it was. And melancholy of the fact that it cannot happen is wound into it. There is also a facet of infinity woven into the soundscape, a velvet soft promise that we will keep in going, the memory of yesterday, its magic and its light.
