The work of Lagartija Nick has an expansive power beyond the mere discography and concert history, which is embodied both in the vast universe of influences that they collect in their music, as in the multitude of references that others take from them. To outline an analysis of the role of the Granada band in the audiovisual culture, the SGAE Foundation has organized ‘Lizard generation’a cycle of concerts and documentaries inspired to a greater or lesser extent in the history of Antonio Arias and company, which will take place in the Berlanga room in Madrid (Tickets) from March 25 to 28, 2025.
The tribute starts with a projection of cinematographic titles inspired by this fundamental band of independent and alternative rock of the 90s: ‘Quebrada Alma’ by Gonzalo García Pelayo; ‘Splendor and Fall: The Garlic Phantoms’ by Juan Pérez Fajardo; ‘The importance of being called Ernesto and the asshole of being called Eric’ by César Martínez Herrada; and ‘Naturala Morta, the story of Sexy Sadie’ by Toti García and Lluís Prieto.
A brief acoustic by Antonio Arias and Juan Codorníu, from Lagartija Nick, will close the audiovisual list on Thursday, March 27 at 7:30 p.m. Behind them the documentary ‘Lizard Generation’ of César Martínez Herrada will be screened.
In addition, Arias himself will star in a new session of new territories, a cycle of concerts in which consecrated bands have emerging bands that drink from their music. On this occasion, the bassist and founder of Lagartija Nick, head of the mythical album ‘Omega’ together with Enrique Morente, recommends four groups that share His radical vision of Andalusian folklore: Black Lima, José Puebla, the pair formed by Antonio Fernández and Pedro de Dios and Mawlid will perform in the Berlanga room in Madrid (C/Andrés Mellado, 53. Tickets for 6.50 euros. For sale at the box office and in tickets.com +gg) on March 28 and 29, 2025, starting at 7:30 p.m.
The movies
‘Quebrada Alma’ by Gonzalo García Pelayo Fourth work of the series «The year of the 10+1 films» where Gonzalo García Pelayo returns to tour different landscapes of the Iberian Peninsula, as he did with this with a broken soul, this time with a less carnal and more intimate and spiritual vision. An artist and film director undertakes a trip in search of locations for her next movie. Admirer of Resnais and experimental cinema, intends to create a story in which their own mourning existence is mixed and that of a man with whom he had a relationship in the past: a singer who retired from the world to lead a monastic life in an attempt to repair his injured consciousness. In this initiatory trip, two young people who feel the flame of love and heartbreak will be accompanied.
‘Splendor and fall: The Garlic Phantoms’ From Juan Pérez Fajardo, he is a rockumental that tells the story of The Garlic Phantoms, a cursed band formed by Edu Molina and Alacrán Fajardo (Juan Pérez-Fajardo himself who directs the tape) that triumphed with a single song and whose meteoric career lasted only six months. The concerts of his mythical One Hit Tour tour were only four minutes. The tape is produced by César Martínez Herrada and shows the ins and outlets of the industry and how a poorly digested success can end up in the fight of egos and all kinds of excesses derived from rock.
‘The importance of being called Ernesto and the asshole of calling Eric’ De César Martínez Herrada is a biographical documentary about Eric Jiménez, drummer of the planets and lizard Nick, a film portrait of a unique artist within the Spanish music scene. He was born in Granada, the only city in the world with explosive name. With ten years he entered the Falange because he wanted to play the drum. His greatest musical influences have been Holy Week and his first host, which he was given at birth. He married 16 years. A little later he began to consume drugs to evade. He should have died before 30. For 40 years he has hit the battery as life has hit him, with all his might.
‘Naturala Morta, the story of Sexy Sadie’ Toti García and Lluís Prieto try to answer several questions. What is success? Sell album or make the music you want? It is a documentary about the footprint of the Sexy Sadie group, one of the most important of the Balearic scene, the proof that friendship and stubbornness can be the way. An audiovisual report that recovers hours of footage recorded by themselves throughout their career, a private and unpublished archive that demonstrates the memories of what was alive. What remains, and what reminds them of who they are. Your music. Its history. A documentary to reflect on an era, the environment and how the group itself represents it today.
‘Lagartija’ generation of César Martínez Herrada transports to a surreal and innovative place, touring its conceptual discs inspired by the historical avant -garde of the twentieth century. Through the films in 16mm, poetry and, of course, the most roquera and innovative music of recent years, Lizard Generation will make us known not only to its members, but also to characters as loved as García Lorca, Val del Omar or Luis Buñuel.
The bands
The Rioja Javier Sola and Juan Carlos Ruiz had to leave to London convinced that only a solid musical career could be formed, and they succeeded. They formed The Gulps, signed the mythical Alan McGee at Creation Records and embarked on a tour that took them throughout the United Kingdom, Europe and the US. Now they are momentarily separated from their English matrix and search in their roots making an inverse musical journey that leads them to disrupt Latin America rhythms from their particular vision. Black Limahis new project, he puts himself precisely this March with the presentation of his debut album ‘Dangers’ in the Berlanga room on March 28 at 7:30 p.m.
Next, it will be the turn of another unlikely merger product (and the study of José Sánchez in Dangers, Granada). ‘Damn songs’ is the debut album of the joint project of the Granadino singer Antonio Fernández and the electric guitar of Pedro de Diosof the dark border band Guadalupe Plata. A solemn encounter between two worlds, the depth of the flamenco jondo and the mortuary and funeral darkness of the twilight western and that pays tribute to classic figures such as the girl of the combs at the blow of continued, zambras, soleás and peteneras … They accompany them on the stage Antonio García Cruz (to the drums) and José Antonio Sánchez Sánchez Sánchez Sánchez Sánchez.
José PueblaOn the other hand, it will deploy on March 29 from 8pm its ambitious and direct audiovisual ‘to Sun’, composed during the palliatives to his mother and inspired by the mysticism of San Juan de la Cruz: an immersive sound design experience that combines the dystopic sacredness of the electronic genre, the noise, the ambient and the IDM, with the structures, patterns and rhythmic elements of the flamenco.
Antonio Arias himself closes the cycle at the head of his project with Ramón Fandila, Mawlidin which using the Guembri, ancestral instrument of the Morocco area and the characteristic Atlas of the Gnawa people, explore the union links between the Arab culture of North Africa and the flamenco tradition.
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