Artist Profiles

David Clavijo

// Composer & Guitarist

DAVID CLAVIJO is a composer, guitarist, musician, and songwriter from Seville, Spain. His music is expressive and sentimental, creating atmospheres and melodies, and is full of contrasts and rhythms, where warm shades mingle from ambient, chill, ethnic, and space sounds. David’s musical influences include Beethoven, Enigma, Enya, Jean Michel Jarre, Loreena McKennitt, Mozart, Mike Oldfield, Vangelis, and Vivaldi. His albums “The Landing” (2009), “The Landing [Special Edition]” (2010), “House: The Chill Edition” (2010), “Café Del 30 Anniversary” (2010), “Puro Desert Lounge, Vol. 3” (2010), “Clorets Music – Slick Expressions” (2010), “Sufi’s Secret 2: Mystical And Hypnotic Grooves” (2010), and “Luxury Lounge Ibiza: Session Four” (2010) are all available from DavidClavijo.com.

Website: www.davidclavijo.com
Photo: Ale Mallado

Interview:

Albrecht Dürer, 15th Century German painter, printmaker, and theorist, once said: “Truly, art is embedded in nature; he who can extract it, has it.” Human beings conceive art as a form of expression, mostly with an aesthetic function; it is said that art is the “sensitive expression of beauty” which tries to produce an emotional response from the beholder. If we take these two ideas as a starting point, we can conclude that everything that comes from nature cannot be more than the result of balance, beauty, and a feeling of deep love for all that surrounds us.

How many times have we listened to a song or a piece of music when we are in an irascible state and, instantly, we hear the first notes and are overcome with an uneasiness and a discomfort that invite us to be at peace with those around us? That is why we can affirm that art has the gift of flourishing our most positive nature and leading us to forgiveness and happiness within our own being. Every time I sit down to compose music, whether it be instrumental or not, the topic that inspires me most is love, followed by a desire to create a consciousness that fights for and ensures a better world in which nature and human beings always go hand in hand. Music, as a kind of art, helps establishing a sense of relief, love, and struggle to find our purest nature.

When I am at peace with myself and those around me, music is born easily and beautifully and listeners perceive this too. However, when my mind is full of negative thoughts, the music in me is not able to flow with purity and I find composition difficult, almost impossible. So I think a peaceful and balanced mind is the best tool to create art. Art has the gift of empathy, and it comes from the depths of the heart and feelings. Whoever is able to create or feel art is able to empathise with the purest feelings of a human being; feelings which are born from their own nature.

Human nature is that of love. I mean, who else would be able to discuss what love is—the true feeling that moves the world? Art expresses this feeling, brings it closer to the men and women all over the world, and is able to generate in each expression a lesson of love and passion. Rarely do we find works of art that attempt to express an opposite feeling. For me nature is love, love is art, and art is the human being.

“Art has the gift of empathy, and it comes from the depths of the heart and feelings.”
– David Clavijo, Composer & Guitarist

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