How necessary friends are when you have to take an important step in life. TO David Bustamante It would have been very, very difficult for him to do what he has done in ‘Unpublished’ without them. He sensed that he might be able to make an album by writing all his songs, but it was his brother, his colleagues Antonio Orozco and Pablo López or his right-hand man in the studio Pablo Cebrián who removed his doubts with a stroke of a pen. “When I showed them the songs I had, they told me not to think about it, to go for it, that they were gems,” proudly exclaims the Cantabrian singer, who in his eleventh album talks about love and heartbreak, more or less the same as always, but this time from the inside, from its truth.
“I have put a lot of time and a lot of love into this album, and I am sure that it is the best of my career,” says the Cantabrian singer. «I did not dare to take this step, I did not see the moment, nor did the environment encourage me. And now that I’ve done it, I’ve realized that composing is what I like most in the world. The creative process fascinates me, and I feel much more fulfilled. “I started writing lyrics as a therapy during the pandemic, and little by little, playing with pen and paper, I found my own language.”
Bustamante regrets that in the music industry, performers “are not encouraged” to create their own songs. «As far as I know, it even happens to some singer-songwriters. No matter how good they are, in the offices of record companies there is always the temptation to pick up the phone and call the ‘hit-makers’. But you’re not stupid, and when you make a suit, you make it to measure. Furthermore, by doing this I have also found a new way of singing.
The first song he composed – and which opens the album – is ‘Hello, how are you’, a kind of welcome to the world for his nephew. And then more, more and more were born, many of them focused on the pain of the breakup and toxic relationships. Themes that seem to have come gushing from his pen as soon as he decided to compose. In ‘Thank you’ he gives the same thanks to someone who finally walks away from him, taking the bad energy with him, in ‘El día que te vas’ he goes to party to celebrate the end of a relationship, and in ‘Calma’ he sings: «After I got tired of giving you everything, the little good, you buried it under the mud. “Who hasn’t it happened to?” says David. «We all get hooked on toxic relationships, and it is necessary to open our eyes to get out of there. Because when a door closes, a window opens.
To your current partner, Yana Olinadedicates ‘La Siberiana’ to him. And to himself, he dedicates ‘I am capable’, a self-criticism in the form of a ballad in which he forgives his mistakes. «The worst has been being too noble and trusting, and that is why they have given me blows in life, I have taken hosts like bread! But I’m not going to change, the one who has to change is the one who uses you.
With ‘Inédito’, which by the way will almost certainly have a sequel because Bustamante has many other songs saved, the artist from San Vicente de la Barquera feels “like starting over,” he says. «When I had discovered that I like to write, I focused on the technical: the verse, the prose, the meter… I’m not going to tell you that the choruses fell out of my hands because I spent a long time looking for myself… until I found myself. And now I feel full, fulfilled. It’s as if I were now in the middle of my career and I had met a new person, who has the same name as me.
Bustamante has already announced the first 2 dates of his concerts in 2025, a theater tour throughout Spain to present this new album: February 10 in Barcelona (Teatro Apolo) and February 17 in Madrid (EDP Gran Vía). Tickets will go on sale soon.
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