I first encountered Eric after I looked for music venues whereas I stayed in Corralejo round 2016ish and got here to search out the “El Piano de Cola” bar. Weirdly sufficient that interprets in Spanish as “The Grand Piano”.
https://www.twitch.tv/eric_corralejo
A little bit context
Corralejo is in Fuertaventura, one of many seven Canary Islands, a Spanish territory that’s indifferent from mainland Spain simply off the coast of Africa. It’s a very lovely place the place I hope to discover extra. The Island is understood for a lot of issues together with windsurfing, goats, aloe vera, lovely seashores, and naturally musicians. Musicians are quite common all through sunny vacationer locations as a result of it’s good and sunny and it’s the place the vacationers are lols.
The phrase Fuertaventura interprets to one thing like “robust wind” and though it’s noticeably extra blustery than a few of the different Canary Islands, you shouldn’t let that put you off. With the Canary Islands being close to the equator you get close to sufficient sensible sunny climate all yr spherical. In truth the higher time to go to any of the Canary Islands I’d say is within the Winter in order that it’s not too scorching.
Corralejo is within the North of the Island and is taken into account to be considerably the English vacationer vacation spot in distinction to the South of Fuerteventura which tends to draw extra of a German crowd. There may be mentioned to have been a German struggle base shaped there again within the day (which continues to be there) and so the Germans have a tendency to say the South as their very own. I’ve been to each and I’d say the North is the higher place to be (together with the gorgeous seashores of El Cotillo) though there are lovely seashores and heat hospitality all through the area.
Fuertaventura Musicians
Eric is the lead host of the musicians that kind round there and I’d spend my nights watching him and others play. The bar has since modified possession and has encounter troubled occasions with the lockdown and I believe this was the principle catalyst that made Eric take to the web to proceed his performances.
He and his spouse Melody who does lots of (in addition to their daughter) the behind the scenes manufacturing have been grinding away on the scene for fairly some time now, maybe a yr or two, and slowly however absolutely, and never surprisingly because of the expertise and nice manufacturing, I believe he’s going to take off. As a minimum, he’s now rising to a good and dependable fan base. I believe his persistence in persevering with to do what he does by means of his ardour for music deserves respect and extra success now. It’s virtually bemusing that so many individuals will watch playing channels (responsible), fortnite/fps gamers, and scorching tub irls and so few have but discovered Erics streams.
Eric performs guitar primarily and sings however is an completed classical musician and performs just about something together with piano and a bizarre form of digital saxophone kind factor that I overlook the identify of which may be programmed to sound like many alternative woodwind and different devices. He can even stream outdated footage of himself performing and enjoying lead excessive. As nicely, his inexperienced display band is hilarious, the place he takes the function of each musician within the band and layers all of them collectively to carry out a full band efficiency.
Melody (his Spouse) has completed an incredible job of setting the inexperienced display backgrounds and simply altogether quirky manufacturing results that basically add one thing particular to the standard of the streams, one thing that personally I’d say, from the stuff I watch, it’s virtually unequalled.
Not all of Erics performances are to my style, however like every completed musician he has an enormous vary and you can’t fail to search out him play some form of music that you just like. As a guitarist, I personally take pleasure in his instrumental guitar performances. Usually he’ll simply sit on the seaside stream himself enjoying guitar. That’s my favourite as a result of I stay the place the solar doesn’t shine a lot and I take pleasure in as a lot as something to only see the solar shining, hear the wind and waves, and the candy music. It’s type of like taking a vacation out of your bed room.
I might go on however I’d suppose many haven’t even bought this far to learn me blabbing on about Eric enjoying music on Twitch, go and test it out. You may watch his earlier recordings and provides him a comply with to indicate assist and you will get a notification to look at him going stay at any cut-off date, typically at the least just a few occasions per week, if no more.
https://www.ericsijpestijn.com/
https://www.twitch.tv/eric_corralejo