Ezel Blog #1: The journey

Sounds like it should be the title of my next lp right? (who knows actually) but the fact is that i am once again
setting on a life changing journey that this time will take me to a place i’ve never been before.

First of all, allow me to welcome very first blog i’ve made on my page .Basically i will be blogging a lot from now on.

reason of this? how about im leaving my home in the Dominican Republic and i am setting to leave of a foreign place that some of y’all call home and that’s Europe.  Tomorrow i will be departing to Barcelona, Spain and couldn’t be any more excited! i think it is a privilege that God has allowed this as part of my destiny and of course i feel great joy in my heart since im gonna be able to FINALLY meet some the dear friends and supporters i have in this region of the world and beyond! (hello Asia, Africa, Japan, Australia)

When one do music or any other type of art that elevates the mind, you get the sensation of going to places but its never like actually GOING places, you feel me? this is insane! so that’ how i feel.

You might wonder, why is this so special, so of y’all might even consider to think that (its about time!) why hadn’t I come b4 if im doing so well with my music and my exposure. Well, nothing is really that simple.

From a spiritual point of view, i believe there is a alignment with one’s purpose in life that must be experienced in order to advance to higher stages of blessings or whatever you wanna call the stream of wealth that comes from above.  This, of course is not always physical/tangible wealth but could be something from the invisible world.  So in that aspect and in what regards to my personal experience this past 2 years i’ve spent discovering the foundation of myself  and for it i had to go to where my ancestry lies, my family, my grandmother, father and all those who love that came before me.

In this past 2 years i’ve come to understand them (and maybe in some manner they have understood me as well)  i won’t say i consider myself unique cuz that affirmation just doesn’t make sense in my system. i just say it is implicit in my views of existence so i don’t have to go and separate it from whatever anybody thinks is “not unique” just saying this because i’ve come to life with a purpose that each and everyday i get a better understanding of it. Each and everyday all the pieces that conform me (my personality, my art, how i love, how i hate, my ignorance) compenetrate itself giving and letting go, being and then no-existing anymore, as i move into the unknown.

Anyways, as all this happened i contemplated from where i sit, all that i wanted in my life.  Anything that it is right now, came from nothing. You can extrapolate that to whatever you want cuz im talking about everything in my life.  When i started in house music ( since a lot of y’all know me from there) i had nothing, i couldn’t make a beat, i didn’t knew how to dj, and didn’t knew anybody that could help me growth or push me.

That was in 2006, so 5 years have passed, funny thing is that i feel exactly the same. What is it that i know, really? what is knowing anyway.  I’ve been doing what i’ve been doing without knowing and i think that’s perfectly ok.  Cuz there should be a higher quality to just knowing. So you don’t stop at the mere entrance of that frame of mind/existence.

It seems more that i’ve walked in alignment with my destiny.  i’ve learned how to express the precise vibration that allow great blessings to manifest in my life.  But again, if you ask me there isn’t much i’ve done to achieve it more than the act of achieving in itself.

A lot of sacrifice, hustle, struggle, deception, excitation comes and go in a process that its surely not a matter of hours, or even days or month , it could be YEARS!  actually i’ve waited for this moment for YEARS!… that’s right.  Couldn’t understand why i couldn’t go and play in places like Greece (i love you greece, im seeing you soon) or (France, Germany, you get the point) places i felt where ready for me.  Well i guess its just like everything, it is a matter of time when you are really ready to do those things.

Now is obvious (TO ME)  that ITS REALLY MY TIME, and i intend to make to most of it. So getting out of that deep monologue…let me give u some insight of what its really happening.  First of all, why am I moving to Barcelona, Spain? well,  i’ve been blessed with a full scholarship to study Audio Engineering in that beautiful city.  It wasn’t easy to get, i had to showcase what i got and defeat a lot of very talented people to qualify.  I didn’t do it alone, i had some of my best friends giving support in everything they could (some of they are filmmakers, industry people, etc just beautiful talented people) and of course i got support from some of my favorite music mentors that stood up for me (hi Osunlade, Daz-I-Kue, Paul Randolph)  i got the support from people from Europe that keep me going (hi Michon)  so i managed to invite all this beautiful energy into one single purpose and now that purpose has become a reality with me flying into Barcelona tomorrow.

What would i do first? well having in mind my classes start next monday and i that i have to kick ass, i’m setting my studio and getting my shit ready for the big challenges inside the school (for those who know i will be attending SAE Institute) next i will setup all my ID/Bank/Cellphone shit so we can all be in contact and start putting the ball rolling.  Of course i have to learn all my ways of transportation, cool spots and i also need roommates  for the next month im moving in on a spot of my own.  Last but not least i came to make friends! i came to laugh, to cry and to support with other soul searchers, brave or weak, big or small…we are all in this TOGETHER. So, this are the first bits of my “Journey”,  didn’t told this until now but since i will be completing this study program  i will stay in Europe for quite some time ( i will keep that info to myself tho) hope the universe give me the pleasure of connecting with you in the upcoming months  and of course that i can come to your city and play for you and in the end that we can share with each other gifts of love,harmony, balance and respect.

Since this is my personal blog, i won’t talk much about gigs or formal things (there are other sections on the page for that)  i’ll keep it more on a intimate/personal tip, hope u don’t mind. So expect me more me talking about some cool paintings, architectonical places, new music, people i meet (this is getting long…i mean the text LOL) Welcome to my world people!  Its the start of a new JOURNEY!

Ezel