WE ARE ON THE THRESHOLD OF A NEW ERA:
THE GENTLEMEN’S AGE
The Gentlemen’s Age project takes its name from the American writer Dan Winslow’s book The Gentlemen’s Hour, published in 2009.
The gentlemen’s hour is the name of the daily meeting on Pacific Beach in San Diego of middle-aged surfers, often successful professionals who are not obliged to punch in from 9 to 17. It takes place around 9 in the morning and, after surfing, the group of the most avid and reckless surfers must go to their workplaces.
As the members of the Patrol of the Dawn, we are not old enough to retire, but we are old enough to take time to do what we like, finally free from the limits of youth.
9 SONGS OF HOPE – NOW AVAILABLE
9 songs of hope tells a story that is then our story. It touches the most significant moments of our existence since we was born until about 3 years ago.
The number 9.
It is not accidental, it represents the completion of a cycle that marks the transposition on a new plane, the end of a period, and the beginning of a new era. In Norse mythology as well, the number 9 is associated with Odin, as that is how many days he hung from the world tree Yggdrasil before attaining knowledge of the runes.
Hope.
Hope is the concept that holds the album together. In every song, we talk about hope both positively and negatively. In the first meaning, hope is the possibility to go on when everything seems too hard. In the second meaning, hope is like a trap, a way to wait without acting.
WE ARE TOO OLD FOR THIS SHIT: IT’S A SAD, SAD STORY
When you are twenty, you have all your life to catch your dreams, and no stage seems too high to be trodden. When you are thirty, things can change a little bit. You may have found a real job, and being a musician could have become little more than a hobby. You still have energy, but less naivety and you start seeing success under another light.
But it is at the dawn of forty that things change for real. It’s a sad story, but we are too old for all the shit success brings with him; we are wise enough to have only one goal: play good music with the certainty to finally be in the gentlemen’s age. Beards have grown and become white, but our thoughts are clearer than in the past.
But it is at the dawn of forty that things change for real.
We have a few arrows left on our bow, but we finally know where to aim.