About South Ignites
I'd like to say South Ignites is a band but it's just a guy named Pablo Gálvez.
South Ignites is the musical project I started in 2019 to put together an album -later released as "After the Rain". The album was comprised of musical demos written between 2013 and 2020, which I recorded in my spare time while studying in college.
Because of the long timeframe in which the demos were written, there are multiple genres mixed on it. Lots of influence of Prog and Alt Rock bands made its ambient soundscapes, while the mixing and song structure was more influenced by a more pop-oriented songwriting.
The Aural Void days
2007-2010
In 2007 I met some friends in college, which introduced me to a lot of new music. At that time my musical taste was influenced by funk, pop punk and classic rock and I dreamed for a couple of years of playing guitar like Joe Satriani.
Not a chance. I'm not that skilled. But I did recognize something in his music and at that time I wasn't sure about what it was. Later I understood what I liked about his music was the effects, the ambient noises, the layering of guitars. Basically the production of his albums.
And that's how Aural Void -a band project that never really existed- was born. Me and my friend just tracked a couple of terrible demos by connecting a pedalboard straight to a computer. I recorded riffs and solos through a DigiTech MultiFX and acoustic guitars mic'ed through a cheap and thin PC microphone, and backing tracks were often programmed through Guitar Pro 5. At that time I didn't know what a plugin or Digital Audio Workstation was.
Aural Void never had a complete song, but I asked a friend if I could use a hand wheel photograph of hers as an album cover. Which I later used as South Ignite's material.
The Cube Grayhouse
& Project 1251
2011-2018
After the Aural Void days I became part of another band project. Although music was in the range of rock, it was very different of what I was used to write, so I was more involved in performing more than anything, but I wanted to contribute more.
At that time, I had some self learned notions of recording, tracking and producing, so I made lots of experiments trying to compose for this band. However, I came up with a couple of songs which where the closest to a proper recorded demos for that band.
Between 2011 and 2017, my mixing skills improved. A lot of incomplete demos were recorded, but I was just experimenting while focusing on finishing my marketing degree. I got my first condenser microphone (a very cheap Samson C01) and a MIDI keyboard and in 2018 I dediced to upload my music as "Project 1251".
