When there is so much to celebrate, there is so much to be grateful for.

At Casa Maracas today we celebrate and appreciate talent, collaboration, effort and authentic independence, which means determination, freedom, fortitude, perseverance and struggle.

We celebrate and are grateful that Plena Pausa (The Red Army, 2023), J's first solo album, is number 1 in vinyl album sales in the week from 09/29/2023 to 10/05/2023, according to data from Promusicae/Agedi, Music Producers of Spain, association that represents the Spanish recording industry.

We celebrate and are grateful that, having been released only in physical format, Plena Pause is number 11 in the top 100 album sales in that week , which includes downloads in digital stores and units equivalent to sales of streaming listening.

We celebrate and appreciate the invitation of the Spanish Film Library to J to set music to part of the visual legacy of the brilliant San Sebastian filmmaker Iván Zulueta , who would have turned 80 on September 29, the date of publication of Plena Pausa . Congratulations, Ivan.

We celebrate and appreciate the symbolic extension that J makes of Zulueta's cinema in Plena Pausa , the revelation of the network of artistic and vital correspondences and convergences between both, dialogue, psychedelia, experimentation, art.

We celebrate and are grateful that the creative genius of another essential artist, closely linked to the figures and works of J and Zulueta, Javier Aramburu, elevated the significance and value of the album and the project through an outstanding visual identity.

We celebrate and thank the musicians and technicians involved in the recording of Plena Pause and its live performances for their generosity in giving all the spotlight to Zulueta's work, promoting it.

Today we celebrate and thank you for your loyalty, your way of thinking and feeling, your enthusiasm and lively response to the music we share. Thank you for celebrating with us.

And we remind you that you will have the opportunity to enjoy Plena Pausa live on 10/14/23, at the Octubre Corto Film Festival in Arnedo , La Rioja; on 10/20/23, at the Seminci in Valladolid ; on 11/18/23, at the Zinebi Film Festival, in Bilbao and on 01/13/24 in Granada and 01/26/24 in Seville (venues to be determined).