First and foremost, Gracias, I appreciate you for taking time out of your day and dropping in. Just to give a little background on where I was mentally when making this project, I want to share what it all means to me.

Frames is a project I created while trying to wrap my head around living. Lo que es la vida. Lately, it seems more real to me cause I been in this grey area where I’m not as young as I once was but I’m also not old, unc, maybe. However, the different stages of life are starting to become more distinctive to me. I see the older generation fleeting, mi mama y mi papa becoming grandma and grandpa not being able to do what they once could, while the younger generations are entering and playing into their societal roles. It’s interesting cause we tend to forget those roles don’t tell who we truly are and what we really believe in and feel with certain exceptions of course. I’ve been reading a lot of books that tap into existentialism to get a better handle on all of it and to sort of find peace in the fact that life is short, yet it comes with everything: new life, lose of life, love, heartbreak, betrayal, contradiction, and so many complexities within each one of our perspectives that brings felicidad y tristeza to our lives. To me, that’s the best part though, la crema y la nata, it wouldn’t be life without the highs and the lows. Those highs and lows make it interesting and worth living. It makes me want to soak it all in and truly enjoy every aspect and every person that comes with it. When you think about it, life is lit and the good parts really only mean so much more to us because we’ve experienced the opposite. It’s the ying and the yang.

I got to say, I still don’t got it all figured out nor do I think I’ll ever have it figured out, but this project brings me closer to accepting what it all is, and what we choose to make of it. Living is all a frame of thought and often we have to break some of those frames or patch them up, whichever feels right.

I cooked a 2 disc project because I wanted to get out of my head as an over thinker and just enjoy and actually live, so I created La Colonia to explore that duality. Side B is heavily influenced by Spanish Rock, which is different from what we usually make but it’s fire. See, something Spanish Rock has always done is lift the spirit. It’s a piece from my culture that I’ve always noticed growing up. Going to birthday parties eating tacos de asada and pizza, drinking Caguamas, Coronas, or Modelos, dancing, and leaving it all out en la pista in such a carefree way, is a top tier feeling that I wanted to relive.

Frames might be considered an introspective project; however, to me it’s just Ben and I thuggin’ it out in the studio trying to create the best music we can, all the while dealing with our own shit, but creating something that can inspire and make people feel something with meaning. That’s what a lot of the greats, growing up, did for me so it’s only right I return that to the world. We been at it since 2009, which is crazy, I don’t know if this is what I was meant for but it’s something I love and it feels right.

I want to create something that can live on forever, something that can be framed, a piece with value from the place we come from. Creating a project from scratch and presenting it to ya’ll on some upper echelon shit is the only thing that makes sense to me.