Flying Dagger: “I took the instruments to town. “I thought nature was going to influence me, but I’m a shitty urbanite.”

For a long time I have been very underground and hence the title Los manantiales, because with this work I come to the surface and I have had the intention of taking another step with a record label that would act as a speaker,” explains Cristina Plaza, who has all life making music, in his last stage under the pseudonym Flying Dagger. “At school,” she remembers, “it was one of my favorite subjects. In my house, music was always playing at full blast. The fifth, of Mahler, in a few volumes! Then there was my older brother, who studied clarinet and tortured me with his scales…”.

Before Daga, Plaza was Gran Aparato Eléctrico, a quarter of Los Eterno and half of Clovis, these last two groups together with his partner, the also musician Fino Oyonarte, known for being part of Los Enemigos and also responsible for the final mix of this latest Daga Voladora album. “I like to do things my way no matter how much this sometimes limits me.” Plaza’s career is a path traced in a proudly personal way. “I have always taken my songs very seriously. There are groups that are not constant and I love them the same. I’m not a constant person. I haven’t always had the strength to sit down and put on. I’m going to my ball. For someone like me, making songs is for the love of the craft.” And despite the intervals, Plaza’s songs are always recognizable. Maybe because Flying Dagger is unique.

The springs (Lovemonk) was sketched in the countryside, but materialized in the city. “I took the instruments to town and started improvising. I thought nature was going to influence me, but I’m a shitty urbanite. “It all came out when I was in a damp basement and with a hammer drilling my ear.” An album in which there are echoes of Stereolab, Galaxie 500, Lou Reed, Silver Apples or Nirvana… “The springs It comes from the fact that I try to replicate the music I listen to and like without any shame. “Why deny where one drinks from?” On this album, Plaza plays. To imagined lives (I wanted to be), to a possible musical (Cristinopolis) oa femme fatale (It will happen to me with you). Along the way, Steinbeck, Kerouac, Gary Snyder, some phrases stolen from Virginia Woolf or Sonic Youth… Such a musical whim, which will also be a whim for the listener due to its precision and elegance, is finished off with the cover by Javier de Juan and design by Beatriz Lobo. A luxury.