Bio

The EP contained five songs, all written over the span of 3 years, and focused on the topics of loneliness and abandoning one’s roots, something very prevalent in Cabanas’ life at the time. The EP was released in February 2017. Later that year, in May, The Attic Band played their last performance together, before splitting up – this was due to the majority of the band leaving Switzerland to attend university. That same summer, Cabanas performed his first ever show in Spain, at the Sala Galileo Galilei in Madrid, to a sold-out audience. This marked his first time onstage since the split of The Attic Band. Cabanas also conceded his first TV interview, where he revealed what had led up to and encouraged this performance outside of Switzerland.

Merely 10 months after the release of his first EP, he was back in the studio, but this time in Spain, to record a second album. With the help of producer Raul Puente, as well as José Bulevar, Cabanas managed to assemble a group musicians with backgrounds within the music industry – this included musicians for Jose Luis Perales, Revolver, Lou Marini, and Rosa.

In his own words, “Unlike the first EP, where I limited myself to a classic ‘studio-like’ recording, here I’ve tried to maintain the raw, compact sound of a live show – the only way to determine the quality of an artist is through his performance, and a recording doesn’t reflect that. But we can approach that by avoiding Spector-like recordings and additional effects that can’t be recreated in a show. That’s why the EP sounds so raw yet so powerful: guitar, bass, drums, piano, and organ. That’s it.”

The album was completed in 5 months, and was recorded at Iya Estudios (Las Rozas, Spain) and 1180 Studios (Tannay, Switzerland). Solitary Nights was released on June 5th 2018. The album was presented on September 7th, in a sold-out show at the Honky Tonk Bar in Madrid. This day also marked the release of the first physical copies (CD) of the record.

During 2019, Cabanas only played sporadic shows. He later revealed that he had taken time off to focus on other endeavors (including songwriting), but that he had started recording his third album. Titled “From The Town of Lincoln, Nebraska”, the album was released in December 2020, after over one entire year of production.

“This album is my attempt at conveying social stigmas that unfortunately still live amongst us today. I’ve tried to place a little bit of everyone on the record, so that each and every listener will, in one way or another, be able to see himself reflected in the music. It is my personal collection of songs about love, death, and self-reflection.”

Highly inspired by the music of John Prine, Colter Wall, and Townes Van Zandt, the album takes a 180° twist on previous works, to let the stripped-down lyrics do most of the talking, as they become the centerpiece of the record.

Summer ’22 rolled around, and Cabanas joined his native Switzerland’s Air Force as an Aircraft Rescue Operator, where he will seasonally serve until 2028.

In early 2023, Cabanas finished mixing a new full-length projected which is expected to be out by mid-year. Flying overseas to the US East Coast, Cabanas also played his first official show overseas, at the Transparent Clinch Gallery in Asbury Park (New Jersey), accompanied by friends Jake Thistle & Bobby Mahoney, to play acoustically for a sold-out crowd.