The career of Triángulo de Amor Bizarro is the story of an absolutely unexpected success for its protagonists, highly applauded by those who became its fans, and sadly vilified (or envied?) by more people than its always excellent reviews seemed. aim. Their singer and guitarist Rodrigo Caamaño remembers that the group was formed by “a few creatures of the night” who, in record time, as soon as they released their first demo, they received a shower of compliments so torrential that they didn’t know how to fit it. “It was very beast”says Rafael Mallo (drums), who at that time had not yet joined the band and saw everything as a friend and fan. «In Galicia we lived in a time with a lot of classic rock scene, and when Triángulo came out suddenly two irreconcilable sides were formed in Galicia: those who saw the group as something refreshing and new, and those who said they had no idea about playing. “It’s something that always accompanied the group, having a lot of people against us.”
“Yes, we are the least prophetic group in history,” adds Caamaño. «Many wondered where we had come from. As we were not part of any of the musical clans of A Coruña, no one knew us and that caused suspicion. We entered like a tank shooting everywhere, but without intending to. We were just making the music we liked, and we were just discovering what it was like to be in a group. Although in reality, being in a group was not entirely that, because normally the thing is not about arriving and kissing the saint.
At that time the band was made up of Caamaño, Isa Cea (vocals and bass), Miguel Prado (guitar) and Julián Ulpiano (drums), but there was still one more member missing to complete the A team: the sound engineer and producer Carlos Hernándezwhich contributed to finding the perfect sonic envelope so that their first album became one of the most celebrated debuts in the history of the national independent scene. «For me a band is a collective and post-adolescent project of people who do not find their place in society. That’s why I’ve always had a bad feeling about those who start out very strong,” says Caamaño, who, upon seeing success’s ears, also saw the dark side of the industry. “The trips, the tours, the promos, many things that prevent you from getting your bearings, because you come from rehearsing with your friends in a basement and suddenly, with all those sudden and strong changes… well, it’s hard to get your bearings.”
It was precisely for this reason that, at the end of their first tour, they ended up so “ultraburned” that the first loss occurred in the group: that of guitarist Miguel Prado. «That also led us to a situation of creative drought – reveals Caamaño -, to fighting with Julián (the drummer, who left shortly after) over something stupid that we later fixed over the years… Many things happened that we did not intend to happen. , and that ate us. Technically it left us in a vegetative state, or almost deceased (laughs). “We entered a spiral in which it seemed almost impossible for us to make a second album.”
But there his friend Mallo appeared to pick up the drumsticks, and a new guitarist and keyboardist, Óscar Vilariño, with whom they overcame with honors the famous challenge of the “dreaded second album”: ‘Año Santo’ (2010), recorded in just five days, “crazily, everything in analogue, without any mediation of computers in the entire process, a little making heads or tails and whatever comes out”, with the single-missile of ‘From monarchy to cryptocracy’, the They rose to the altar of Spanish alternative rock and have remained there for fourteen years. In all this time there have been a couple more lineup changes (when Vilariño left to be replaced by Zippo, who in turn ended up leaving him after the emotional blow of the pandemic), another four albums received with honors by the press, an unforgettable collaborative album in which the cream of Spanish indie participated and some other more bizarre projects, such as the conceptual works in EP and maxi-single formats ‘El Gatopardo’ and ‘No estars tú’.
To celebrate their twentieth anniversary, the now trio has prepared something simply incredible, a gift for their fans. The artist Wences Lamas has created six tarot cards, one for each album of the group, and at each concert, a symbolic figure called A Moura, ‘the Entity of the Void’, throws them to the public so that they can decide which album will be performed live. “That’s going to lead us to play songs that were either never played, or played very few times,” says Caamaño, who is going to enjoy the tour as “a celebration that all this was worth something, that it was worth working hard to like it.” “to people who really like music, because money and fame were never our goals.”
REMAINING DATES OF THE 20TH ANNIVERSARY TOUR
NOVEMBER 22 – TOLEDO
NOVEMBER 23 – SEVILLE
NOVEMBER 29 – OVIEDO
DECEMBER 12 – ZARAGOZA
DECEMBER 13 – BARCELONA
DECEMBER 14 – VALENCIA
DECEMBER 20 – A CORUÑA
DECEMBER 28 – FINAL SURPRISE
FEBRUARY 1 – CDMX
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