Atypical

«The hardest thing about ADHD is that it’s ‘invisible’ to outsiders. Living with ADHD is like being locked in a room with 100 televisions and 100 radios all playing. None of them have power buttons so you can’t turn them off and the door is locked from the outside.»  Sarah Young

Argentinian composer Andres Guazzelli releases his first album, “Atypical“, on October 31st 2020, last day of National ADHD Awareness Month.

After going public about his ADHD diagnosis in his blog entry “Living With ADHD“, Andres Guazzelli has announced the release of a brand new album, “Atypical” to aid him get treatment for the disorder and donate its profits to ADHD charities.

“Atypical“, conceptually conceived as “A Day Inside An ADHD Brain“, conveys the disorder’s symptoms into musical pieces: inattentiveness, impulsiveness, hyperfocus, excessive mental and motor activity, restlessness, sensory overload and others.

ADHD is poorly understood by the general population, and the album’s ultimate goal is to raise awareness and understanding of how the ADHD brain works, how it processes random thoughts and how it perceives its surroundings.

The album features six tracks, each one portraying a symptom of the disorder. The first four named after the acronym of ADHD: Attention, Deficit, Hyperactivity and Disorder. The following two are named Hyperfocus and Neurodiverse.

Progressive in nature, “Atypical” dances between genres, textures, odd time signatures, atonal synths, sweet lullabies, sound design and overall controlled chaos.

Since his public outing and as a highly functional ADHD adult, Andres has become a local spokesperson for the disorder and its struggle, while raising understanding and comfort for ADHD parents.

Once the expenses of his own ADHD treatment are covered, all album profits will be donated to different charities and organizations and who raise awareness and do research about ADHD.

«ADHD. I have more thoughts before breakfast than most people have all day.»

The Album, explained:

●1  Attention: Short attention span, distractability, frequently switching from one activity to another.
●2  Deficit: Those periods of calm between bouts of hyperactivity or hyperfocus.
●3  Hyperactivity: Excessive mental and motor activity, restlessness. May be physical, verbal, and/or emotional.
●4  Disorder: Sensory overload (the overstimulation of one or more of the body’s five senses), and the interpretation or fixation on patterns that may or may not exist, and if they do exist, may or may not be intentional.
●5  Hyperfocus: the ability to focus so intensely on a single element while blocking everything else.
●6  Neurodiverse: A day inside an ADHD brain: all symptoms together, combined and or/layered.

Album credits:

●  Andres Guazzelli: piano, keyboards, synthesizers and programming.
●  Nacho Sosa: bass and electric guitars.
●  Nahuel Arrúa: electric guitars .
●  Federico Tarquini: electric guitars.
●  German Desia: bass.
●  Mauro Romero: bass.
●  Jack Dimensions: clavinet and Rhodes piano.

Additional guitars courtesy of LenoxBeatmaker, Rokz Beatz, Sushilbawa, PureTones, Minor2Go, mileslucre, MXMUHD, Olai and BassT.

Recorded at REDRUM, Estudios DCI, Estudio Aléa, Estudios Rotar (Mar del Plata, Argentina), and Habitación Espacial USA, Carolina, Puerto Rico.
Mixed by Andres Guazzelli at REDRUM, Mar del Plata, Argentina.
Mastered by Fernando Richard at Genoma Mastering, Buenos Aires, Argentina.

Artwork by Maite Suarez, Mar del Plata, Argentina.

Produced by Andres Guazzelli.