Chatting with Ariel Rot is like uncorking a good bottle of wine with a friend, toasting the moments lived, winking a mischievous eye to nostalgia and letting yourself be carried away by wise reflection, delicious conversation and the wisdom of someone who has lived and sung. of (almost) everything. Whether it was in his stage in bands as fundamental as Tequila and Los Rodríguez or in a solo career full of major works, the Argentinean, excellent guitarist and composer and very personal singer, is a sure value if we talk about elegance, style and musical greatness anchored in the coordinates of the seemingly simple. For his new adventure, motivated after his television experience with the wonderful ‘A country to listen to’, Rot has hit the road with another illustrious, Kiko Veneno, thus forming a truly dreamy artistic couple that lands next Saturday at 52 edition of the San Javier Fest. We talk to Ariel.
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What
Concert by Ariel Rot and Kiko Veneno at San Javier Fest. -
When
Concert by Ariel Rot and Kiko Veneno at San Javier Fest. . Saturday, August 20, at 10:30 p.m. -
Where
Almansa Park Auditorium (San Javier). -
How many
30 euros.
–They began the tour in January of this year and, since then, each of the concerts they have performed has been received with tons of love and admiration. From the inside, how have you lived these first months of experience?
-With much happiness. It is a very new and different project, it is not like anything I have done before. It’s like when I started doing radio and discovered a new way of communicating or the experience in the program. For me it’s not just a tour, it’s an event. Why? Because I’m playing with different musicians, who don’t come especially from rock, although they also play it and I’m participating in the fusion with Kiko’s band. All that musical part that is put together interpreting our songs is surprising and innovative. We refresh our own repertoire and create a new common one in which new things are constantly happening. Also, getting into Kiko’s world is fascinating. And, of course, there is also the same spirit of the project, which is to have two or three guests who contribute, integrate and play with all those cards that we offer them.
ABOUT KIKO POISON
“I love hearing him sing verses of my songs. On a musical level, it is a very nourishing union»
–Before continuing to speak in strictly musical terms, and since you quoted the fabulous ‘A country to listen to’, do you think there is a solution to the battered relationship between television and music in our country?
–It gives the feeling that we are not making much progress because instead of maintaining a program that worked, or replacing it with something similar, they have directly abandoned it. Music on television has not been treated, it has been mistreated. They have made us lip-sync for years, which does a disservice when it comes to creating a scene and a country that continues to grow and where music occupies the place it deserves. It is really inexplicable. I’m not very optimistic on this issue because I’ve been at it for about forty years, more or less, and I haven’t seen a substantial change at any time.
–Going back to the tour, I will tell you that it reminds me a bit of Bob Dylan’s mythical Rolling Thunder Revue because of its free, unprejudiced, playful and festive experience. In addition, they share that intention of breaking the topics that surround the so-called ‘concerts with guests’. How do they do it to avoid this characteristic direct model?
– It is part of the spirit. On the one hand, in my experience as a guest, I always get the feeling that going up to play a song doesn’t end up being entirely satisfactory. It’s always very short and it takes a long time to feel comfortable on stage. Personally, when I enjoy it the most is when they let me play several songs. For this reason, those of us who like to enjoy that moment want the guest block on this tour to be a moment in which they take over the stage and can develop their full potential. Logically it is very important to find people and this project has that little complication, especially now that it is a stage of complicated agendas for the summer. But the official crew of this project are music lovers, we enjoy it and we want that ceremony, that kind of trance, both on and off stage. we want to recover [en San Javier] the old ceremony of rock and popular music.
A REFLECTION
«Music on television has not been treated, it has been mistreated»
Improvisation
–Regarding that freedom you referred to earlier, what role does improvisation play in these concerts?
–We cannot afford to rehearse at every concert and have everything absolutely controlled, so we have to leave a space for surprise, chaos and confusion (laughs). And I think people also feel that atmosphere in which there is no fully stipulated arrangement, things are invented and we have very good resources to be able to let go. I always give way to instrumental improvisation, because there is a safety net that is a song that I have already performed many times, but of course, here we are playing a song many times for the third or fourth time and that feeling of vertigo is generated from creating at the time. We feel as if we were jazz musicians and we let ourselves go, especially because, obviously, all the musicians who are there have the solvency to be able to do it.
–How has your way of working with other artists evolved over the years?
-Each situation is different and new. There are collaborations that have a narrower margin, but I always try to try to surprise and at the same time that the song grows. The program has given me the opportunity to greatly develop that capacity for improvisation and that instinct to understand the song almost in real time. It has a lot to do with what we have done all our lives beyond the stage and that for me is the most important thing in music, that is, getting together with people and playing after eating or having a glass of wine at home.
ABOUT THE TOUR
«For me this is not just a tour, it is an event»
–How has your work been as a guide when it comes to introducing a personality like Kiko Veneno in a musical universe as characteristic and personal as yours?
-Kiko has total freedom to do whatever he wants in my house (laughs). We are talking about a tremendously defined, clear and surprising personality. The truth is that I love listening to him sing verses of my songs. On a musical level, it is a very nourishing union in which I really believe that we both grow a lot and the songs too. Obviously we have worked long before to find the common points in which we feel comfortable with each other and the extent to which to participate in one or the other topic. In any case, it’s a pleasure to be with Kiko, chat, design each concert and think of each song with him.
Patience
-Finally, as a huge fan of your music, I can’t help but ask you about your plans for the future with regard to your solo career. It’s been six years since the publication of the formidable ‘La manada’, are you already thinking about a next work that will quench our thirst for new songs?
-I’m sorry (laughs). Let’s see, it goes in stages. Since the split from Los Rodríguez I have had constant creative battles and have been totally plugged into songwriting, but lately I have relaxed. I get the feeling that it is something that also responds to the years, because I am not the only one that happens to it. I hope that at some point I will have the patience to organize and finish all the music that keeps playing in my head. Knowing that there are people waiting for a new album is always good news, because I always think the opposite: does the world really need one more Ariel Rot album?
MAGIC
“We have to leave a space for surprise, chaos and confusion”
-Man, I can’t speak for the world, but I would love to (laughs).
-Well we’ll see. At the moment I have been with other things and I have not achieved that level of concentration and capacity for work that I had at other times. I am very sincere in this. But I would like to update my story a bit, to see if it is possible.
–In any case, if you decide to rest, you have left us a collection of works more than enough to make you full of pride and with your head held high.
–The truth is that I really like my repertoire (laughs). And that also imposes a certain respect on me when starting to work, because when you start a new process you do it with bad ideas (laughs). Getting to the point where you reach that training and something really interesting starts to emerge is a job that involves some suffering. And sometimes I feel like, well, I already did it, so if it doesn’t come out in a smooth, natural way, why get into that match?
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