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There are many other ways to name this period of time of Jesus about which we do not know anything. Some people call it “occult years”, but I like the name of “silent years” because of what the word ‘silence’ evokes. Silence evokes humility and meditations, and I think the relevance those years in which Jesus didn’t make any public appearance rely precisely on humility and meditation. Jesus is God, so he didn’t need to mature his spirituality and wisdom along the years, all that spirituality and wisdom is within him not just since he was born, and not just since the beginning of the times, but since always, eternally. So, he was not waiting all those years before making his public appearance in order to maturate his wisdom before teaching it. He was waiting and in silence because of humility. He teaches humility to us through his years in silence. We don’t have to rush in our spiritual development, we have to be patience and mostly humble. We have to be silent and find that silence within us.

Under such thoughts I tried to make a very simple and humble melody in this mediative musical piece. To give it a more humble character I have not used polyphony in this piece but a very simple monodic structure, plain chant.

This chant goes through three different phases. The first one with the voice of a child. The second one with the voice of a teenager. The third one with the voice of a man. Doing this I try to evoke the human maturation of Jesus (as I said his divine condition don’t need to mature).

He doesn’t vocalize the melody. Instead he sings with a humming voice. I did it this way to evoke the silent condition of this period of time.

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from Meditationes Vitae Christi I -Generation and Childhood Of Christ-, released March 5, 2017

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Alvaro Barcala Madrid, Spain

Artist and composer. Barcala bases his compositions mostly on the piano, going through a range of sounds from post- classical, ambient and experimental.

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