02/06/2026
Pablo Ferrando.
Music is a beautiful thing.
It is a map. It is a bridge.
It is the kind of language that can take you from one familiar stage to a completely different corner of the world and still feel like home.
My thread to Pablo () and started through the crew in Cookeville, TN, and it has only proven one thing over and over: a DIY community reaches farther than you think when it is built on sound, sweat, laughter, and people showing up for each other.
In 2025 that thread stretched across oceans, from Rustic Stomp in Dorset to the homestead Muddy Roots back in Tennessee, and into the studio with Jason Dietz, where you get to see artists exhale and hear what they are really chasing. That is where I watched Pablo do what he did best: hold space, listen deeply, and help shape the emotion inside the music.
Then life did that wild thing where worlds collide. We landed in Los Angeles the day of an Angry Zeta show, right as my kids’ holiday break started, and they were instantly all in. Now it is road trip soundtrack status. Even my younger child will ask for Disney, then switch it up and say, “Never mind. What about some Angry Zeta?”
Later, being invited to photograph Muddy Roots Buenos Aires showed me the bigger ripple. The friendships. The hands-on work. The love that builds something real. It made me understand even more clearly how much Pablo lifted up the people around him and how far that energy keeps traveling.