In a very entertaining and great spinning choral story, the web editorial branch Muzikalia He has dissected the scene of mostly young musicians who keep the Guitarus flame alive in Spain, whose leadership is usually awarded by comfort to Carolina during when there have really been many more key groups for the birth and development of the phenomenon.
‘We don’t sound bad’ (Title that refers to a verse from, Ahem, Carolina during), prepared by Dani Vega, Enrique Zamorano and Víctor Terrazas, focuses on what happened on the scene during the last ten years, while still making the relevant reference to other bands Previous as a Bizarro and Biznaga love triangle, which did not assign themselves to any concrete current, and also those belonging to the pearless burst around 2010.
These last groups, who almost always sang in English, reached quite success outside Spain, and although here they did not consolidate and many of them disappeared, the ethical bases (so to speak) and logistics of a new infrastructure ‘indie’ that they As of 2018 they took advantage of the protagonists of this book. As The Parrots said in an interview with RockdeLux: «Many of the things we did in those years have had a very deep impact on the things that are being done now. We believe that, in many areas, there was a strong blow to the table and confidence in new projects and in the young people they grew ».
That confidence effectively grew exponentially, generating the birth of countless sustainable guitar projects, but ‘we do not sound badly, it emphasizes that this has not served to correct the scourge that ravages these musicians: the precariousness. And in some way, it shows that the bands have more than digested the fact that we must live with it, as with housing prices and other generational trouble, while criticizing the situation, but with a spirit of bathed bathed of sarcasm.
The one who best synthesizes it in the book is Fernando Naval, singer and guitarist of camels: «« This is not new, the people who have dedicated themselves to music in these last twenty years have assumed it. It sounds terrible now that I say it in plane, but it is so. Those who dedicate themselves to music assume it or leave it. For me this in Spain is something to assume. I want to change it, but are people willing to pay what is worth a record to an album? You have to be willing, and this will change and someone will enjoy it, but most we will not see it ».
Daniel Belenguer of the Alavedra group goes further and ensures that “being a musician is a utopian thing.” For this Barcelona singer and bassist, try to live from it «It is a mental and economical suicide that will end your life And that of the people around you, “and confesses that his psychologist told him that” if you dedicate twenty percent of your life to your own artistic project, you will end very badly. “
‘We do not sound bad’ it also serves as a demystifying agent, opening the eyes of those who relate to this industry only as clients to make them see that everything that shines is not gold. «People believe that pasta is taken in the festivals But many times we do not even go on account, ”says Sixto Martín, from the Trinity. «And on top of the five in the afternoon and almost pay you in kind … all festivals move after all on the same margins, but the most perverse dynamics of all is that of the shit of Mad cool, I shit in the mother that gave birth to them. These people set up concerts waiting for the fucking bus in the parking lot. Well, and spring too. That is no longer a concert, you are a fair of fair ».
The keeping appearances and making people believe that little that you succeed you will live with glamor, it is an image that falls apart before speeches such as Ismael Camera, Acapulco apartments. «It makes me funny when there are groups that claim that they can live from music», Says the guitarist. «Music does not live or Christ. Like many the planets or Lori Meyers. It makes me angry that bands that I know at the interviews saying that they are professionally dedicated to it. In the face of the public, it is Guay, but it is not true ». The data supports its disquisition: the report of the Society of Interpreters or Executors (IEA), reveals that almost sixty percent the musical artists do not reach the minimum wage, and forty -four percent need another work to survive.
This rampant precariousness is one of the fundamental elements of ‘We do not sound bad’, but the book to address many other problems, such as the struggle for visibility in networks, the struggle to seduce the spotify algorithm, the fight to get a seal, the fight for promoters to treat you with dignity … They are so many, that it seems miraculous that guitar bands continue to be born. They are screwed but there are still, and the vast majority, making good music. From here, an applause for all of them.
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