We recently connected with Julio Marín Díaz and have shared our conversation below.

Alright, Julio thanks for taking the time to share your stories and insights with us today. Can you talk to us about how you learned to do what you do?

I trully believe that art is about ways of understanding a language. Music, as a way of art doesn´t get away of that idea. Understanding this statement is one of the reasons why I think that the musical journey of any artist is based in the non-stop searching of your inner language. In the initials, as any other language, you have to listen carefully and copy the masters or at least the people that you like the most and are part of your daily routine of listening to music. Your brain, body and ears start to digest this information until its absorbed without thinking. Of course, this process is not linear, sometimes you go forward for a few steps and then realized that you did four steps back and it´s completely personal. Meanwhile, I think that you should mix these with your own way being able to be understood and at the same time being yourself. Besides, I think that these kind of skills or ways of understanding music are not able to be learned in a speed way or in terms that there is a shorter path to arrive. I think that your ears will tell you the decisions to make, and the approaches to take to learn any obstacle in this process of discover the language of music.

Awesome – so before we get into the rest of our questions, can you briefly introduce yourself to our readers.

I get in the industry after being graduated in Berklee College of Music in Valencia (Spain). I performed aroun the world with different projects around the jazz scene and I have my own album called “El Retorno de Saturno” which you can find in the platforms. It´s a mix of jazz, world music and sort kinf of cuban “claves”. I also play in “Alex Conde y los Indultados” band where we mix spanish traditional songs with an ensemble of ten people and a very electric sound. In an emergent project around the leader and drummer Eva Catalá and also I´m thinking on recording an EP in 2024 and a LP in 2025.

Is there mission driving your creative journey?

My mision is to continue trying to put music where I think it should be in terms of importance in actual society. I trully believe that music is a powerfull gate that provides people ways of better understanding of their own cultures and also ways of relate with other ones. Unfortunately, nowdays society thinks that is simply and way of spend free time ignoring deeper things around that.

How did you build your audience on social media?

I must admit that I have troubles on how to think about social media. I try to share my concert shows, news about new music to release and sometimes my daily practice routines. However, I think that the algorhythm is a little bit dictatorial in a way that you have to post with a concrete requirements to be seen. If you don´t do that, you are almost invisible. So you have to wonder to yourself if you want to accept the algorhythm and not be so natural as you usually are or as I said, simply be invisible.

Contact Info:

• Website: https://juliomarinmusic.es/
• Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/julio.marin.diaz/
• Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/julio.marindiaz/
• Youtube: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCzDnIRnQkLBa3LOTu12JwgA