Video premiere: Isaac Martinez reflects the pain of a missing family in a lively folk rock melody “Cedar Road”

“I am working on becoming a better person for my wife and son. Music is the big side quest, do you know?”

The musician Isaac Martinez, based in Denver, is the man behind this open remark. It is a convincing truth about the reality of life for every successful father who is also a songwriter who is looking for success.

It is almost impossible to summarize Martinez 'creative and complicated career. He began to compose songs at the age of 11, prepared the guitar that his father had bought for his sister shortly afterwards, and studied the instrument in a conservatory from the high school.

Martinez is productive until the confusion, and his tendency to compulsively work on material in a variety of genres for years, then release it and then wipe it out of the Internet in a mysterious way is part of his artistic charm.

Regardless of this, some melodies are too important so as not to last.

For the first time, after years of the operation under Aliasse, more than a dozen DIY publications since 2016 and a detour to Los Angeles, which produced a Brockhampton and Beatles-inspired band, which had enough momentum after four years to justify an implosion, has finally released the work that he is most proud.

He should be.

10 Country songs is the first recording that Martinez is worth it to be dropped everywhere under what he calls his “government name”. The album was produced by Martinez together with the A-List support of the engineers Andy Flebbe (Green Day) and Grammy® winner Jerry Ordonez (Bon Iver, Waxahatchee).

True Martinez 'versatile nature is the title of the album a tiny red herring, since the record is less than ten country songs.

It is an amalgam of the unort -sanctuary and ubiquitous intellectual and emotional influences on Martinez (including that of his wife, son and his relationship with God) and his fair musical. It represents what is most important for Martinez, that is, not for “side quests”.

Her eyes could glazed while you listen to Martinez Gush about influences on his sound, which is as different as Shoegaze, Garage Rock, IDM, alternative, Americana, Math Rock, Hip-Hop, Pop and, yes, country. There is a lot to take. Better if you have the water while listening to Martinez's music. There is also a lot to take, but in the best way.

“How much can I tell you that you should show yourself that I love you? Everything I could say! How much could I give you to show you that I meant it? Everything that could do!”

TodaySlide Offers an exclusive premiere of the video for the outstanding track “Cedar Road”, an acoustically loaded work by Volksrock, which feels deeply personally, and also bears topics that make up. The singing of Martinez is steamed and layered for a strong effect, which borrow the emotional power of the texts. With sparse but layered instrumentation, the song carries a kind of lightness that feels hopeful, which fits the family in view of its focus.

When I was 15, I wrote 'Cedar Road'. My therapist asked me to write about the pain of the missing family and it captures a certain moment of my youth. I tried to make the video like a tour through my family life. I don't have as many pictures as I thought, but there were enough. I grew up as a rating chess player. This was the influence of my mother. She is a best -selling chess author, so chess was a large part of my childhood. But then the music entered the picture and they see that I grew up pictures of her and our son in the youth symphony of violence, grew up, my wife, zoe and my childhood. My father said this video was too confusing what is a strange thing because he knows everyone in the pictures! “ – Isaac Martinez

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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=81nfnjam8ye