Ismael Serrano: Hoy es siempre. Todavía

After his successful 20 años. Hoy es siempre tour, celebrating his 20-year career in music, Ismael Serrano is ready to embark on a new adventure: he, his guitar and an intimate concert in a carefully produced setting.

20 años. Hoy es siempre was recorded live in Argentina, featuring some of Serrano’s closest musician friends. It includes new versions of his all-time hits and a song that had never been recorded before.

About the album, Ismael says, ‘After Hoy es siempre and its big concerts with a big band and an ambitious staging, I needed to go back to my roots. I had never recorded a concert with just my voice and my guitar – a singer’s most rudimentary tools and the most sincere, and difficult, way of offering one’s songs.’

‘So I asked a few friends to come to a place in Tigre, in the province of Buenos Aires, on the delta of the river Paraná, to sing songs that are often left out of my repertoire but are part of me. Songs that I cannot part with, even when they do not usually find room in my concerts.’

‘We spent the whole day together. In the album you can hear the sound of song thrushes, shiny cowbirds, great kiskadees and other birds in the background, singing amidst the trees in the afternoon. When the sun went down, the birds fell silent, but instead you can hear the trees swaying in the wind, a few tingling drops of rain hitting the metal roof, the whisper of the dying day…’

The new song in the album is titled ‘Crucé un océano’. This is the translation of the first lines:

‘I flew across the ocean looking for a song,

A word that filled the vacuum you left in me,

Thanks, still, for being always…’

Ismael Serrano

Unplugged concert