I read a review I found:
Le punk tells us about the night, rogue, impossible loves .. . leads us to an imaginary one ... How about staging and how much of reality? ... Or the villain gets off the stage and take the Metro to get up early because the next day a meeting of the APA has
Joe: (Laughter) It is always so delicate. In our case, what happens is if we lived well. Apart from sharing the group, the Pins, Alfredo and I are people who we go up together. Dani has a bar, Alfredo had a bar. So that there is a point that is very real. Alfa
: Especially when I came Punk. Joe and I started writing for Le Punk in an era convulsed emocinal a bit ... I had the bar and Joe came at eight o'clock when opened and close it at eight o'clock, completely drunk. We got a tape recorder and we recorded there when we closed the bar. Actually, I think in 'The Lodge of Canalla "There's a tremendous weight of this philosophy, it was real. And now I think that is something that is moving too, but hey, we remain Añaza trentaypico uncles who live there, in an apartment, and continue with the same forms of life ... because the truth is we have not changed in almost anything.
Joe: We Curran, because none of the music live ... currando of what we can to keep doing this y. .. does exist that way of life, somehow. Of course, not surrounded by aunts live with black stockings. Alfa
: And once you create that image, also created a world around you. It's incredible.
Joe: also influenced by what we read, movies we spend, so
Can not stop a prisoner slightly projecting the image? That is, there is a part of the public who can not distinguish fiction from reality. How to position ourselves in this double-edged sword?
Joe: With enormous sense of humor. We are not a group to go out there to pose. We are laughing all the way from us. The way we deal with this is that. As of many people, I guess. We try not tomarno very seriously what the group itself.
Le Punk "would belong to this recent merger moda'de 'Balkan', within the broader fashion 'merger'? Alfa
: do not realize it, really. For there to be a trend I think there must be a scene, an aesthetic, a number of things.
Joe: is true that from time to time with the roll of the merger, we ask this. The truth is that we do not feel anything in this world. Alfa
: is that we have nothing to do with the manner of those people. A level musical puede que en un momento dado Le Punk se parezca a alguien, pero a nivel personal... nosotros hemos estado de juerga con Los Delinquentes y con esta gente y... no tenemos nada que ver, nada que ver. De hecho nosotros utilizamos el adjetivo 'perroflauta' con saña.
Joe: De hecho hubo un momento en Virgin en que Liñán dijo algo como 'vosotros, para ese público' y tal... le saltamos encima, se quedó un poco flipado.
BUENAS NOCHES ROSE
La eterna pregunta: ¿qué pudo haber sido BNR que no fue?
Alfa: Buenas Noches Rose nació, como todo grupo, de la casualidad y el encuentro entre people, particularly at a college. But for a few years we were in danger, that is, we were in danger of becoming something monstrously large. We were about to be a huge band. Only the feeling that this could happen, this cabal of vultures had around you, how rarefied the atmosphere around us ... for kids who also had twenty to twenty-one, sobrehormonados and prone to using drugs ... that feeling, just that feeling was what the group fucked.
But the start could not be better: The first album received excellent reviews and, for a debut, has a production excellent. Alfa
: Buenas Noches Rose was cool that you shit when he was a group 'underground' and when we hit two years in Madrid playing in dens as the Sirocco and the Laboratory and places like that for two hundred, three hundred or one hundred fifty . This was monstrous. Then, I dunno.
Are you aware that the cursed history of Goodnight Rose is raising the group to the category of myth? Lately I've seen a web page issue, an article in the journal EFE EME, has sounded over the loudspeakers of Extremúsika ...
Joe: Viewed from outside, it is curious that he is rediscovering very young people. People twenty years and under. Alfa
: Currently there is affecting me much, but I met a journalist from Rolling Stone a couple of months ago who told me they were going to do a story on Goodnight Rose, roll 'group damn, the best rock'n'roll band in the history of Spain 'and this and that. And I:
"Well. Well "
" What do you think? "
" Well I guess I'll have to wait fifteen years to do me a story on Le Punk "
course, because it all now" a tale of what ... but well, I guess there are people who feel you have to do justice.
And the badness is well
Alfa: And that is so cool, yeah, people love it. I think if the thing does not leave mother (who do not think it will) we can benefit us. I really think that because my past and what I have more than thought and beaten, and now what I would really like is to move forward this. I thought, mind you, since I did The Legend of Wolf Singer, who was seventeen years old and living with my parents in a flat next door ... Seventeen years have passed.
And just think where were those who now want to do interviews. Alfa
: No, no, no! I have no rancor toward anybody at that time. Things go or not go, and what did not work out. I think there was a turning point when we finished the preparation of the Spider Dance ... we did something very nice, in theory, that is to take all belongings and go to a house in the desert of Almeria and just get there to prepare the disc. Thereafter there was a time when we were not happy with ourselves. We were not happy, is not spent well. Peron I have any resentment toward anyone. Yes it's funny you remember the clique of characters who were always around you, eating cock, which soon leave as it took to leave Jordan.
We can say that Spain has, in short a lot, two streams of hard rock, urban rock, son of Rosendo and Leno, and Anglo-Saxon, sung in English with Anglo-Saxon patterns. Goodnight Rose Rock was more Anglo-Saxon descent, very debtors, for example, Led Zeppelin, but sung in Castilian. Why in Spain has cost both groups singing in Castilian? Alfa
: It is very difficult to make letters in Castilian that molen. Few people know them do, to communicate true because a song, regardless of sound, aesthetics, of guitarrazos of aesthetic standards that are supposed to be a rock song ... above that is the song. I know of no group that has been observed that it has a song. There are groups 'sound' that have become number one in the U.S. as the Great Funk Railroad, but who now remembers the Grand Funk Railroad? Nobody. However, everybody remembers the Stooges, which sold five thousand records. Fito
Platero left and went to Fitipaldis, Rubén and Leiva will be Pereza, Bunbury Heroes left and moved to Latin American rhythms, Barricada make acoustic Josele Enemy becomes singer and Alfa BNR passes and Straw Dogs Le Punk ... Is this that is menopause rockers? Alfa
: I think it's a disappointment. Many people have suffered a disappointment compared to the rock. Because I do believe me when I was in those years that the rock was the epitome of human communication, and yes I thought was a rock and roll star. Because I thought it was the best that could be in life. What happens then, when you gain some perspective, you realize that the personage of the rock star gives very grim. In the background gives a lot of grime and especially for people who have lived, you have things to regret, as Bunbury. Bunbury suppose, when you read an interview of Heroes del Silencio has to think, but how could I be so stupid?
He has already said in an interview. Alfa
: It is also true that what they did was good and weird and English music critics pounded him. Bunbury had to win a fight to the point that has not won any singer in music in Spain.
Returning to the Rose, is there a chance that Punk will touch a topic of Goodnight Rose? Alfa
: do not know. The other day I was thinking at home now that we have a horn section could be placed in the funky rhythms and pick a song as The Farm and do something. I thought the other day and above.
Joe: Indeed us, Patillas, Alfredo, and Robert, the drummer of the Rose, we played songs of the Rose in a couple of concerts there. So it is a very viable
Alfa: It is within the feasible. ________________
Many thanks to Alfredo and Joseph, Le Punk, for your kindness and for their good work in the music world. We hope you enjoyed the interview, which ends here.
hope to return soon Mystic Load Fallacy, a Upon regaining internet connection and ended guillotine Mayojunio exams.
Saluz!
Links the issue of piracy has changed many times an enemy ... There is one thing and that's it and that's it. No turning back. Alfa : And always there, eh.
Joe:
The other day we talked about, now you sell a zillion thousand computer memory so that you download movies and CDs because if not, what are you going to use all that storage capacity. Is there, and there is no struggle possible. Is the top blanket?, It is already lost, that was diverting attention. Alfa
"His music is a rich mixture cocktail aroma emanating from Buenos Aires and New Orleans, with a gypsy streak that sulky Delta blues or classic rock and roll guitar by Joe Eceiza. But Alfa which calls the shots with his cockiness and his look of a loser, the same as that of some of the characters in his compositions. "
Le punk tells us about the night, rogue, impossible loves .. . leads us to an imaginary one ... How about staging and how much of reality? ... Or the villain gets off the stage and take the Metro to get up early because the next day a meeting of the APA has
Joe: (Laughter) It is always so delicate. In our case, what happens is if we lived well. Apart from sharing the group, the Pins, Alfredo and I are people who we go up together. Dani has a bar, Alfredo had a bar. So that there is a point that is very real. Alfa
: Especially when I came Punk. Joe and I started writing for Le Punk in an era convulsed emocinal a bit ... I had the bar and Joe came at eight o'clock when opened and close it at eight o'clock, completely drunk. We got a tape recorder and we recorded there when we closed the bar. Actually, I think in 'The Lodge of Canalla "There's a tremendous weight of this philosophy, it was real. And now I think that is something that is moving too, but hey, we remain Añaza trentaypico uncles who live there, in an apartment, and continue with the same forms of life ... because the truth is we have not changed in almost anything.
Joe: We Curran, because none of the music live ... currando of what we can to keep doing this y. .. does exist that way of life, somehow. Of course, not surrounded by aunts live with black stockings. Alfa
: And once you create that image, also created a world around you. It's incredible.
Joe: also influenced by what we read, movies we spend, so
Can not stop a prisoner slightly projecting the image? That is, there is a part of the public who can not distinguish fiction from reality. How to position ourselves in this double-edged sword?
Joe: With enormous sense of humor. We are not a group to go out there to pose. We are laughing all the way from us. The way we deal with this is that. As of many people, I guess. We try not tomarno very seriously what the group itself.
Le Punk "would belong to this recent merger moda'de 'Balkan', within the broader fashion 'merger'? Alfa
: do not realize it, really. For there to be a trend I think there must be a scene, an aesthetic, a number of things.
Joe: is true that from time to time with the roll of the merger, we ask this. The truth is that we do not feel anything in this world. Alfa
: is that we have nothing to do with the manner of those people. A level musical puede que en un momento dado Le Punk se parezca a alguien, pero a nivel personal... nosotros hemos estado de juerga con Los Delinquentes y con esta gente y... no tenemos nada que ver, nada que ver. De hecho nosotros utilizamos el adjetivo 'perroflauta' con saña.
Joe: De hecho hubo un momento en Virgin en que Liñán dijo algo como 'vosotros, para ese público' y tal... le saltamos encima, se quedó un poco flipado.
BUENAS NOCHES ROSE
La eterna pregunta: ¿qué pudo haber sido BNR que no fue?
Alfa: Buenas Noches Rose nació, como todo grupo, de la casualidad y el encuentro entre people, particularly at a college. But for a few years we were in danger, that is, we were in danger of becoming something monstrously large. We were about to be a huge band. Only the feeling that this could happen, this cabal of vultures had around you, how rarefied the atmosphere around us ... for kids who also had twenty to twenty-one, sobrehormonados and prone to using drugs ... that feeling, just that feeling was what the group fucked.
But the start could not be better: The first album received excellent reviews and, for a debut, has a production excellent. Alfa
: Buenas Noches Rose was cool that you shit when he was a group 'underground' and when we hit two years in Madrid playing in dens as the Sirocco and the Laboratory and places like that for two hundred, three hundred or one hundred fifty . This was monstrous. Then, I dunno.
Are you aware that the cursed history of Goodnight Rose is raising the group to the category of myth? Lately I've seen a web page issue, an article in the journal EFE EME, has sounded over the loudspeakers of Extremúsika ...
Joe: Viewed from outside, it is curious that he is rediscovering very young people. People twenty years and under. Alfa
: Currently there is affecting me much, but I met a journalist from Rolling Stone a couple of months ago who told me they were going to do a story on Goodnight Rose, roll 'group damn, the best rock'n'roll band in the history of Spain 'and this and that. And I:
"Well. Well "
" What do you think? "
" Well I guess I'll have to wait fifteen years to do me a story on Le Punk "
course, because it all now" a tale of what ... but well, I guess there are people who feel you have to do justice.
And the badness is well
Alfa: And that is so cool, yeah, people love it. I think if the thing does not leave mother (who do not think it will) we can benefit us. I really think that because my past and what I have more than thought and beaten, and now what I would really like is to move forward this. I thought, mind you, since I did The Legend of Wolf Singer, who was seventeen years old and living with my parents in a flat next door ... Seventeen years have passed.
And just think where were those who now want to do interviews. Alfa
: No, no, no! I have no rancor toward anybody at that time. Things go or not go, and what did not work out. I think there was a turning point when we finished the preparation of the Spider Dance ... we did something very nice, in theory, that is to take all belongings and go to a house in the desert of Almeria and just get there to prepare the disc. Thereafter there was a time when we were not happy with ourselves. We were not happy, is not spent well. Peron I have any resentment toward anyone. Yes it's funny you remember the clique of characters who were always around you, eating cock, which soon leave as it took to leave Jordan.
We can say that Spain has, in short a lot, two streams of hard rock, urban rock, son of Rosendo and Leno, and Anglo-Saxon, sung in English with Anglo-Saxon patterns. Goodnight Rose Rock was more Anglo-Saxon descent, very debtors, for example, Led Zeppelin, but sung in Castilian. Why in Spain has cost both groups singing in Castilian? Alfa
: It is very difficult to make letters in Castilian that molen. Few people know them do, to communicate true because a song, regardless of sound, aesthetics, of guitarrazos of aesthetic standards that are supposed to be a rock song ... above that is the song. I know of no group that has been observed that it has a song. There are groups 'sound' that have become number one in the U.S. as the Great Funk Railroad, but who now remembers the Grand Funk Railroad? Nobody. However, everybody remembers the Stooges, which sold five thousand records. Fito
Platero left and went to Fitipaldis, Rubén and Leiva will be Pereza, Bunbury Heroes left and moved to Latin American rhythms, Barricada make acoustic Josele Enemy becomes singer and Alfa BNR passes and Straw Dogs Le Punk ... Is this that is menopause rockers? Alfa
: I think it's a disappointment. Many people have suffered a disappointment compared to the rock. Because I do believe me when I was in those years that the rock was the epitome of human communication, and yes I thought was a rock and roll star. Because I thought it was the best that could be in life. What happens then, when you gain some perspective, you realize that the personage of the rock star gives very grim. In the background gives a lot of grime and especially for people who have lived, you have things to regret, as Bunbury. Bunbury suppose, when you read an interview of Heroes del Silencio has to think, but how could I be so stupid?
He has already said in an interview. Alfa
: It is also true that what they did was good and weird and English music critics pounded him. Bunbury had to win a fight to the point that has not won any singer in music in Spain.
Returning to the Rose, is there a chance that Punk will touch a topic of Goodnight Rose? Alfa
: do not know. The other day I was thinking at home now that we have a horn section could be placed in the funky rhythms and pick a song as The Farm and do something. I thought the other day and above.
Joe: Indeed us, Patillas, Alfredo, and Robert, the drummer of the Rose, we played songs of the Rose in a couple of concerts there. So it is a very viable
Alfa: It is within the feasible. ________________
Many thanks to Alfredo and Joseph, Le Punk, for your kindness and for their good work in the music world. We hope you enjoyed the interview, which ends here.
hope to return soon Mystic Load Fallacy, a Upon regaining internet connection and ended guillotine Mayojunio exams.
Saluz!
Links the issue of piracy has changed many times an enemy ... There is one thing and that's it and that's it. No turning back. Alfa : And always there, eh.
Joe:
The other day we talked about, now you sell a zillion thousand computer memory so that you download movies and CDs because if not, what are you going to use all that storage capacity. Is there, and there is no struggle possible. Is the top blanket?, It is already lost, that was diverting attention. Alfa
: not know anyone who do not get off the emule things to anyone. Included
you
Alfa:
So you have raised the possibility of distributing the disc otherwise? Type give it a few days (Ivan Ferreiro), put it on download (Radiohead), hang yourselves eMule (Alamedadosoulna), etc ...
Joe: is marketing, that Alfa
: But we will, we will. What we will do at first is trying to collect a few copies suicientes which guarantee a bit of work because, despite the industry and its crisis, you need to play live.
But it is as intended or is already decided? Alfa
: We have here a conversation, Público types want to make a platform for downloads and stuff.
Joe: Inevitably, the music has to end there. Alfa
: The problem is in the music world is not a problem that guys like you generate, you download albums and then go to concerts. It is a problem a sector of the population which is what makes a group is great, who really gives a shit about music and they buy the record of El Canto del Loco, go to the concert in the festival of the people and that is your relationship with music.
On the way to consume, we are seeing a cultural change also with respect to the positioning of music. At one point, the device had some history of rock and roll and roll emerged was something artificial, not artificial. That of creating superstars around a song ... I think now people are on another roll.
Joe:
But it also forces you to emulate and this is all abusing the music. There is no mystery to discover a song.
But having data downloaded to your computer and use them does not hurt anyone (except the person who wastes his space)
Joe: not hurt, but it does in the sense that lost the charm of listening to a disc. Is a more artistic than economic, but people who are not accustomed to listening to music, suddenly you hear a triple hard disk.
But the fact that music is there, available to all, does greatly increase the potential listeners, then anyone can buy your album or go to concerts. Alfa
: In this regard, would be cool to get to a point where the culture of triumph live on the culture medium. And that is not the direct culture of Spain's patron saint. That has rooms that people have some custom.
Joe: That does not hurt people pay six euros for a concert.
What greater involvement of institutions? Le Punk is a group that has been playing to Krakow invited by the Cervantes Institute, which, apparently seen, I almost becomes privileged. Is it positive or is to stay away?
Alfa
: Culture should have provided some sponsorship, if it had not been painted or a picture, never. If the guy who was going to hunt would not have allowed the ugly and skinny guy to stay in the cave painting and I had not fed, no one had painted. What happens is that clear, put the institutions in the world of music ... institutionalize the music is a bit dangerous
Joe: is that it sponsors have to be intelligent and know that you can not get a sack. And the institutions I think everything that want to get want to get something.
Kill: the new work, Slated for this Fall years Where does the new job going? Is it continuous, there is some evolution? How are you what have you raised?
Joe: album is more direct, has the power of vitiating the previous one, and the musical pattern not much different from what we have done. Alfa
: has six or seven very very good songs. And then the other six are ... incredibly good (laughs). No, has six songs that have a huge level and we've got that arrangements are up to.
The first album was more widespread, more 'tango', the second most 'European' ... Is there any new stick or direction in this third party? Alfa
: there are touches of folk, more U.S., more blues.
Joe: course, more Bob Dylan, most folk. Building
perhaps the horn section.
Joe: Yes, even a little Soul. Suddenly we've gone to this wave,
Alfa: But it has a cabaret pace too. The album starts with a super rate cabaret.
Joe:
and tango, and swing, and everything always.
Who's in charge this time of production?
Joe: What has
Juan de Dios, Deluxe guitarist, who is a friend. We have recorded in his small studio.
are with Virgin, despite the self-production of first job. How does a major label is set in a group is not large audiences? Alfa
-
We have fired! Virgin was sold and laid off everyone. This album we're going to do is self-produced again. What happens is that we have reached a very nice agreement with Warner, which will distribute. We have made bobbin lace and going out with decent conditions, large disk.
However, the question remains: how does a multinational company such as Virgin might be set in a small band of alternative circuits? Alfa
:
Well, Virgin had a character, Javier Linan, which is for example that was with Manu Chao when he hit the pitch. It is a somewhat nerdy guy who occasionally liked to get out of the lane. Saw the group a few times, liked it and even thought I was going to get a performance of music at mass.
And what ye believed? Alfa
:
We were in full emotional crisis.
Joe:
When he left the second even during recording, we were in crisis. Alfa
:
had very different views.
commonplace in the Chronic power right in front of the nuances of the disc. Have you raised record something live? Alfa
:
Yes, we're at it. A super nice project. Is there, but we have to develop it. We can not say anything more, but it will be something different and very nice. ______________________________
In the next part: The actual image and the figure of Le Punk and a look back at Goodnight Rose.
Links Part I honestly and from a personal standpoint.
met Le Punk two or three years ago. The thread was easy: after having discovered
Goodnight Rose, that great band that could be and was not (talk about it with Alfa in later parts of the interview), I drew closer to see what he was busy singer. To that point I knew the singer, George, had 'fled' from the band in mysterious circumstances, which triumphed with
Ruben Pereza, band I raised a few passions, and Alfa, after
Straw Dogs, had set a group that was said there that was "different."
I can not count how many laps did 'The Lodge of the mob' on my mp3. Turns metaphorical, of course, that the CD era has passed. I was and I'm sure it sounded in my headphones was novel (despite being made of sounds 'old'), which was good, intelligent and different from the music scene and has offered English.
I have the memory of a summer working at a pajama factory (...) Soria for which 'Tango', 'Sadness',' Winter Sun ',' The crime of love 'or' As dead as alive 'were soundtrack. I know, is not the place for nightlife songs, scum and bohemian. He was young and needed the money ... He
with a sufficiently 'fusion' to be more than enough rock and rock to avoid falling into the 'buenrollismo' country fusion. With the letters Alpha and instrumentation much more elaborate than in previous groups. How not to fall into sin.
Within months she went out 'Do not shoot the pianist. " If the first job, the criticism was great, was the tango, the third long sounded more 'Balkan', more rock. If the first seduced me, the third I was hung. How not to surrender to songs like 'The Virgin of Solitude' or 'the wrong enemy', to name two.
few weeks ago I had the opportunity to talk at length with Alpha and Joe Eceiza, germ Le Punk.
We invite you both to know the band and those who do not, engage in a little closer to the universe of this band
.
Over the three or four posts that divides the interview is to discuss the line-up changes the band's new album to be released after this summer, Goodnight Rose, piracy of their albums , etc. ... Hope you like it. Began:
Please ... Le Punk
define
Joe -
is a rock band, except that now, apart from the classical guitar, bass and drums, have a horn section. But the songs were assembled like a rock band that gets into other styles of music: swing, tango, and so on.
Why should the outputs of Tuli and C. Pop?
(Sax / clarinet and pianist / accordionist who left the band after recording the second album) Alfa: Tuli Caesar and went basically playing at Deluxe and Sloth. Caesar went to Deluxe Sloth and Tuli. It was motivated because Deluxe and Sloth are bands that work ... earning more money than us, and they went to make more money. But not only that, it was indeed a musician Tuli environment, a musician of ours, here, the neighborhood, with whom we had lived all my life were friends since childhood. Theirs was a little different, had another character because somehow he was imbued with the interpretation that Caesar made at the time of the situation and decided to leave as well. On the other hand, when working with a group of people, in local, long locked up, there is much emotional core of the matter. So that part was also that.
Suddenly, the situation reached a point where it was better to change it. And it was better.
Joe: is marketing, that Alfa
: But we will, we will. What we will do at first is trying to collect a few copies suicientes which guarantee a bit of work because, despite the industry and its crisis, you need to play live.
But it is as intended or is already decided? Alfa
: We have here a conversation, Público types want to make a platform for downloads and stuff.
Joe: Inevitably, the music has to end there. Alfa
: The problem is in the music world is not a problem that guys like you generate, you download albums and then go to concerts. It is a problem a sector of the population which is what makes a group is great, who really gives a shit about music and they buy the record of El Canto del Loco, go to the concert in the festival of the people and that is your relationship with music.
On the way to consume, we are seeing a cultural change also with respect to the positioning of music. At one point, the device had some history of rock and roll and roll emerged was something artificial, not artificial. That of creating superstars around a song ... I think now people are on another roll.
Joe:
But it also forces you to emulate and this is all abusing the music. There is no mystery to discover a song.
But having data downloaded to your computer and use them does not hurt anyone (except the person who wastes his space)
Joe: not hurt, but it does in the sense that lost the charm of listening to a disc. Is a more artistic than economic, but people who are not accustomed to listening to music, suddenly you hear a triple hard disk.
But the fact that music is there, available to all, does greatly increase the potential listeners, then anyone can buy your album or go to concerts. Alfa
: In this regard, would be cool to get to a point where the culture of triumph live on the culture medium. And that is not the direct culture of Spain's patron saint. That has rooms that people have some custom.
Joe: That does not hurt people pay six euros for a concert.
What greater involvement of institutions? Le Punk is a group that has been playing to Krakow invited by the Cervantes Institute, which, apparently seen, I almost becomes privileged. Is it positive or is to stay away?
Alfa
: Culture should have provided some sponsorship, if it had not been painted or a picture, never. If the guy who was going to hunt would not have allowed the ugly and skinny guy to stay in the cave painting and I had not fed, no one had painted. What happens is that clear, put the institutions in the world of music ... institutionalize the music is a bit dangerous
Joe: is that it sponsors have to be intelligent and know that you can not get a sack. And the institutions I think everything that want to get want to get something.
Kill: the new work, Slated for this Fall years Where does the new job going? Is it continuous, there is some evolution? How are you what have you raised?
Joe: album is more direct, has the power of vitiating the previous one, and the musical pattern not much different from what we have done. Alfa
: has six or seven very very good songs. And then the other six are ... incredibly good (laughs). No, has six songs that have a huge level and we've got that arrangements are up to.
The first album was more widespread, more 'tango', the second most 'European' ... Is there any new stick or direction in this third party? Alfa
: there are touches of folk, more U.S., more blues.
Joe: course, more Bob Dylan, most folk. Building
perhaps the horn section.
Joe: Yes, even a little Soul. Suddenly we've gone to this wave,
Alfa: But it has a cabaret pace too. The album starts with a super rate cabaret.
Joe:
and tango, and swing, and everything always.
Who's in charge this time of production?
Joe: What has
Juan de Dios, Deluxe guitarist, who is a friend. We have recorded in his small studio.
are with Virgin, despite the self-production of first job. How does a major label is set in a group is not large audiences? Alfa
-
We have fired! Virgin was sold and laid off everyone. This album we're going to do is self-produced again. What happens is that we have reached a very nice agreement with Warner, which will distribute. We have made bobbin lace and going out with decent conditions, large disk.
However, the question remains: how does a multinational company such as Virgin might be set in a small band of alternative circuits? Alfa
:
Well, Virgin had a character, Javier Linan, which is for example that was with Manu Chao when he hit the pitch. It is a somewhat nerdy guy who occasionally liked to get out of the lane. Saw the group a few times, liked it and even thought I was going to get a performance of music at mass.
And what ye believed? Alfa
:
We were in full emotional crisis.
Joe:
When he left the second even during recording, we were in crisis. Alfa
:
had very different views.
commonplace in the Chronic power right in front of the nuances of the disc. Have you raised record something live? Alfa
:
Yes, we're at it. A super nice project. Is there, but we have to develop it. We can not say anything more, but it will be something different and very nice. ______________________________
In the next part: The actual image and the figure of Le Punk and a look back at Goodnight Rose.
Links Part I honestly and from a personal standpoint.
met Le Punk two or three years ago. The thread was easy: after having discovered
Goodnight Rose, that great band that could be and was not (talk about it with Alfa in later parts of the interview), I drew closer to see what he was busy singer. To that point I knew the singer, George, had 'fled' from the band in mysterious circumstances, which triumphed with
Ruben Pereza, band I raised a few passions, and Alfa, after
Straw Dogs, had set a group that was said there that was "different."
I can not count how many laps did 'The Lodge of the mob' on my mp3. Turns metaphorical, of course, that the CD era has passed. I was and I'm sure it sounded in my headphones was novel (despite being made of sounds 'old'), which was good, intelligent and different from the music scene and has offered English.
I have the memory of a summer working at a pajama factory (...) Soria for which 'Tango', 'Sadness',' Winter Sun ',' The crime of love 'or' As dead as alive 'were soundtrack. I know, is not the place for nightlife songs, scum and bohemian. He was young and needed the money ... He
with a sufficiently 'fusion' to be more than enough rock and rock to avoid falling into the 'buenrollismo' country fusion. With the letters Alpha and instrumentation much more elaborate than in previous groups. How not to fall into sin.
Within months she went out 'Do not shoot the pianist. " If the first job, the criticism was great, was the tango, the third long sounded more 'Balkan', more rock. If the first seduced me, the third I was hung. How not to surrender to songs like 'The Virgin of Solitude' or 'the wrong enemy', to name two.
few weeks ago I had the opportunity to talk at length with Alpha and Joe Eceiza, germ Le Punk.
We invite you both to know the band and those who do not, engage in a little closer to the universe of this band
.
Over the three or four posts that divides the interview is to discuss the line-up changes the band's new album to be released after this summer, Goodnight Rose, piracy of their albums , etc. ... Hope you like it. Began:
Please ... Le Punk
define
Joe -
is a rock band, except that now, apart from the classical guitar, bass and drums, have a horn section. But the songs were assembled like a rock band that gets into other styles of music: swing, tango, and so on.
Why should the outputs of Tuli and C. Pop?
(Sax / clarinet and pianist / accordionist who left the band after recording the second album) Alfa: Tuli Caesar and went basically playing at Deluxe and Sloth. Caesar went to Deluxe Sloth and Tuli. It was motivated because Deluxe and Sloth are bands that work ... earning more money than us, and they went to make more money. But not only that, it was indeed a musician Tuli environment, a musician of ours, here, the neighborhood, with whom we had lived all my life were friends since childhood. Theirs was a little different, had another character because somehow he was imbued with the interpretation that Caesar made at the time of the situation and decided to leave as well. On the other hand, when working with a group of people, in local, long locked up, there is much emotional core of the matter. So that part was also that.
Suddenly, the situation reached a point where it was better to change it. And it was better.
At this time of which you speak, how you have raised the restructuring of the band? 
Joe: tend to restructure it in the same way because the truth is that we came at a time a little bad everything. We had concerts in front to cover, so we look for an accordion, a pianist, a saxophonist ... of a similar training. We tried people, people great, but in the end came ... I do not know exactly how it emerged contact. Alfa : One day drink a beer with Quique González
Alfa:
He said he knew some kids ...
Joe:
Alfa:
He said he knew some kids ...
... that are of No Reply, a group of swing here in Madrid.
other words, I came three in the same 'package'
Joe: course, the incredible thing was that we proposed, they wanted to, he looked good, we gave them the records, Curran it home, we were ... and how they are friends and have been playing together for a long time, because uncle, suddenly it worked perfectly What Le Punk wins with the new lineup?
Joe:
Lots of power, is more rock ... Alfa
:
... much cleaner base. Before there were times when we were in a song Joe and I played guitar, was a piano (apart from the low) ... and suddenly on the disc recorded an accordion and an organ and the base was super charged. "Do not Shoot the Pianist" was a dense disc in the base for that reason, we got a bit baroque to the topic. The winds now come to the party of strength and make the songs come up, but leave the base breathing calmly and this album [which is about to go] about what we recorded with a guitar, bass and drums as the base.
And in live?
Joe:
In direct what is much appreciated it much more powerful, much more to the point. Much nicer, too.
After all the trouble to find a place, Edit self, changes in training, getting an audience ... Can we consider that Le Punk is now a stable project? Alfa
:
Male, depends on the sites. There are places where it works better and places where it does not work.
I meant, rather than the public, your own perception of the band. If a project is seen as stable, consolidated.
Joe:
course. Since the departure of Tuli and Caesar ... Well, there was a personal thing, so we, when they left, we had to look in a bit navel all talk and say "what we do", "what happens here." And suddenly it was the perfect time to cleanse us from all that if we go ahead and from there continue with a project very stable on a personal level. On a commercial level, it is very relative, not so much about ... Alfa
:
I also note in the record we've done that we have renewed the commitment between us ... is that it is difficult to work with so many people. We were six, six people with an opinion each, six people talking all the time about everything.
A bit of narcissism: What do you think you have done well? Alfa
: I think we've been brave and honest ...
Joe: Honest, above all that. Alfa
: ... and we have not looked anything but make music that fills us and I think we've got in spades. And besides, it is a bit strange for the landscape now. I think this is something we are entitled to say.
Joe: And we have spread it, mostly. That honesty, so to speak, it sounds a bit wrong ... spread has been achieved at the public level, people see you. It is fucking everyone you talk like that, you respond well, as equals. Alfa
:
is very easy, because they respect you in advance and when you sit down to talk to people. I do not know, I think it's a bit of everything: direct, records, letters. The letters carry much weight, I think they are smart and that people like. Well, some of the people. must be terrible to be a group such as El Canto del Loco, for example, and instead of doing an interview of the top 40, do you interview someone who knows about music, you know when you sit down with him who despises your work. On the other hand, must molar shit you gain as much pasta as they (laughs)
A good sign for Le Punk: I have been unable to find a bad review. Do you dare? Alfa
: I think we're constantly learning, which is something that we very gala, one of the other group. We are learning constantly amazed at how we learn and apply it. So in this sense, the project remains dynamic, we are introducing many things and that makes often be a little ... truism doing, right?
Joe: We are very donkeys in this sense: we get into one thing and we go for it from our ignorance. But assume, and that's fine too. Alfa
: I believe that in the preparation and the process of recording 'Do not Shoot the Pianist' were very pretentious and did not get to make a record that was at the height of the compositions, arrangements level.
Joe: not find the energy. Alfa
: (Rotundo) No. Now when we play the songs of 'Do not shoot the pianist "with the winds, I think we all realized we made a series of basic errors in the previous record . It is this charge that we spoke about before, that density.
Joe:
is produced considering putting a bit of everything, fix it and eventually lose much strength. Also, maybe we do not let the musicians such
We will not repeat a thousand times the influences cited in other interviews, but I would like to clarify some who have put on your myspace ... What paint there ...
... Gloria Fuertes? Alfa
: represents the first poetic message of a child.
... Mencia wine? Alfa
: is a wine of the region of Mencia, which is between Orense y León. A wine rude but ...
Joe: ...
tremendous
Alfa: ... but sweet and very good
... Milo Manara?
Joe: Damn! Alfa
: No one, not God made a woman as pretty as Milo Manara
... Scurvy?
Joe: Just as Gloria Fuertes, the first contact (laughs)
... Rosa Luxemburg? Alfa
: Rosa Luxembourg is the woman revolutionary, revolutionary politics. A tremendous character. I guess that blows to anyone who knows his story feel like combat, and that is very important.
... Chopin?
Joe: We'll see. The next step.
... Miguel Delibes?
Joe: Huge writer. Alfa
: Huge. No one has known - that I have read - translating so savagely and so tenderly Castilian spirit. It's an amazing thing. Joe: Writer
also for small and older.
Abad de Santillán ...? Alfa
:
is the summum of anarchist thought, no one who has developed an anarchist thought with the same sobriety and with the same efficiency and with the same political grounds. It is as solid as Marx. __________________________________
The next
part: Internet, hacking, downloads, and new forms of distribution. And a gift, a pair of tracks on the new album.
Links our seasoned readers probably remember this humble contributor to the mystic fallacy since a long time ago that did not happen here or to read. Things in life: one day you feel full of life, with his head full of wild ideas about the relationship of the fall of the Berlin Wall Mandelbrot's theorem and the next day you think it's not worth wasting your precious time lavishing your musical onanism convoluted prose. It may be a good time to pick up hard drugs.
However, this prolonged drought literature to which I have been subjected during
the last three months has allowed me to explore some music projects that perhaps I would have gone unnoticed otherwise. In any case, a few weeks ago I had the pleasure of meeting at a concert to a group of patriotic music scene itself is worth it: Tinnitia. It was through them that I came to know of a number of bands that recently have filled my dead spaces between alcohol intoxication. One of them, which I would like to dedicate this post, is the champion of Metal-Progressive Italian, Ephel Duath name.
For those few false geek background to the name they have bristly hairs on your neck for no apparent reason, I will say that according to Wikipedia, Ephel Duath is a mountain range that keeps the border east and south of Mordor. At this time more than one will be thinking that I lost the cherimoya and have fallen into the downward spiral of medieval Heavy Arwen plan. But life holds surprises for us, nor have I lost the little musical approach that even I was, and these guys have dragons on the covers of his albums. If I had to define the musical style of these men say they are somewhere between Mr. Bungle's Disco Volante and the Miles Davis Bitches Brew, but possibly it does not do justice to the band, and the duo (sometimes trio, sometimes something else) goes a long way in Padua. Something in his music Jazz, Avant Garde something a little progressive rock and tons of Metal:
This track belongs to the acclaimed The Painter's Palette (2003), the second LP of the band and possibly one of the best records rampant art I've ever heard long time. Each of the nine songs on the album is subtitled with a pigment in one, I suppose, attempt to evoke some kind of primary reaction in the listener. Since then, his Praha, definitely sounds Ancient Gold.
However, the disk is really clean, although there are parts they do not quite jell as Ruins (Deep Blue and Purple) has high points as the only low Labyrinthine (Crimson) that you begin to feel like smashing furniture and burning pictures of your home.
Ultimately interesting acquisition for any self-respecting musicófilo hardened.
The next album in order of publication is named Pain Necessary to Know (2005).
In the beginning the group from a different premise: the music progresses throughout the lifetime of the album without passing twice on the same site and, overall, the implementation has a much less rational than the previous LP. It is unfortunate that a disc with just good passages is marred by an absolute determination as to disperse its contents. If I had to choose a theme to illustrate the general tone of the disc may be Vector, Third Movement (first in order of appearance):
This song, although not bad at all, it perhaps a little pretentious (funny I say that) in the sense that seems to try to put much more music than can fit in four minutes and lasts one quarter. Fragments impressive, but I am totally unable to think of one that I liked immediately after hearing the track.
's latest album, which I have not had access yet, is called Pain Remixes the Unknown (2007). In an unexpected bombshell has released an electronic plan reissue his earlier work. And people seem to like. I come to read comparisons to Aphex Twin, and that is too big. confess that the reason for this post, as well as prevent Mr. boat I eat a pulled left arm around him, is to encourage you to attend the concert Ephel Duath Tinnitia celebrated this week as openers. Will take place on Friday May 23 at 9 Siroco (c / San Dimas 3 meters Novitiate and San Bernardo, Madrid). Promises great things.
other words, I came three in the same 'package'
Joe: course, the incredible thing was that we proposed, they wanted to, he looked good, we gave them the records, Curran it home, we were ... and how they are friends and have been playing together for a long time, because uncle, suddenly it worked perfectly What Le Punk wins with the new lineup?
Joe:
Lots of power, is more rock ... Alfa
:
... much cleaner base. Before there were times when we were in a song Joe and I played guitar, was a piano (apart from the low) ... and suddenly on the disc recorded an accordion and an organ and the base was super charged. "Do not Shoot the Pianist" was a dense disc in the base for that reason, we got a bit baroque to the topic. The winds now come to the party of strength and make the songs come up, but leave the base breathing calmly and this album [which is about to go] about what we recorded with a guitar, bass and drums as the base.
And in live?
Joe:
In direct what is much appreciated it much more powerful, much more to the point. Much nicer, too.
After all the trouble to find a place, Edit self, changes in training, getting an audience ... Can we consider that Le Punk is now a stable project? Alfa
:
Male, depends on the sites. There are places where it works better and places where it does not work.
I meant, rather than the public, your own perception of the band. If a project is seen as stable, consolidated.
Joe:
course. Since the departure of Tuli and Caesar ... Well, there was a personal thing, so we, when they left, we had to look in a bit navel all talk and say "what we do", "what happens here." And suddenly it was the perfect time to cleanse us from all that if we go ahead and from there continue with a project very stable on a personal level. On a commercial level, it is very relative, not so much about ... Alfa
:
I also note in the record we've done that we have renewed the commitment between us ... is that it is difficult to work with so many people. We were six, six people with an opinion each, six people talking all the time about everything.
A bit of narcissism: What do you think you have done well? Alfa
: I think we've been brave and honest ...
Joe: Honest, above all that. Alfa
: ... and we have not looked anything but make music that fills us and I think we've got in spades. And besides, it is a bit strange for the landscape now. I think this is something we are entitled to say.
Joe: And we have spread it, mostly. That honesty, so to speak, it sounds a bit wrong ... spread has been achieved at the public level, people see you. It is fucking everyone you talk like that, you respond well, as equals. Alfa
:
is very easy, because they respect you in advance and when you sit down to talk to people. I do not know, I think it's a bit of everything: direct, records, letters. The letters carry much weight, I think they are smart and that people like. Well, some of the people. must be terrible to be a group such as El Canto del Loco, for example, and instead of doing an interview of the top 40, do you interview someone who knows about music, you know when you sit down with him who despises your work. On the other hand, must molar shit you gain as much pasta as they (laughs)
A good sign for Le Punk: I have been unable to find a bad review. Do you dare? Alfa
: I think we're constantly learning, which is something that we very gala, one of the other group. We are learning constantly amazed at how we learn and apply it. So in this sense, the project remains dynamic, we are introducing many things and that makes often be a little ... truism doing, right?
Joe: We are very donkeys in this sense: we get into one thing and we go for it from our ignorance. But assume, and that's fine too. Alfa
: I believe that in the preparation and the process of recording 'Do not Shoot the Pianist' were very pretentious and did not get to make a record that was at the height of the compositions, arrangements level.
Joe: not find the energy. Alfa
: (Rotundo) No. Now when we play the songs of 'Do not shoot the pianist "with the winds, I think we all realized we made a series of basic errors in the previous record . It is this charge that we spoke about before, that density.
Joe:
is produced considering putting a bit of everything, fix it and eventually lose much strength. Also, maybe we do not let the musicians such
We will not repeat a thousand times the influences cited in other interviews, but I would like to clarify some who have put on your myspace ... What paint there ...
... Gloria Fuertes? Alfa
: represents the first poetic message of a child.
... Mencia wine? Alfa
: is a wine of the region of Mencia, which is between Orense y León. A wine rude but ...
Joe: ...
tremendous
Alfa: ... but sweet and very good
... Milo Manara?
Joe: Damn! Alfa
: No one, not God made a woman as pretty as Milo Manara
... Scurvy?
Joe: Just as Gloria Fuertes, the first contact (laughs)
... Rosa Luxemburg? Alfa
: Rosa Luxembourg is the woman revolutionary, revolutionary politics. A tremendous character. I guess that blows to anyone who knows his story feel like combat, and that is very important.
... Chopin?
Joe: We'll see. The next step.
... Miguel Delibes?
Joe: Huge writer. Alfa
: Huge. No one has known - that I have read - translating so savagely and so tenderly Castilian spirit. It's an amazing thing. Joe: Writer
also for small and older.
Abad de Santillán ...? Alfa
:
is the summum of anarchist thought, no one who has developed an anarchist thought with the same sobriety and with the same efficiency and with the same political grounds. It is as solid as Marx. __________________________________
The next
part: Internet, hacking, downloads, and new forms of distribution. And a gift, a pair of tracks on the new album.
Links our seasoned readers probably remember this humble contributor to the mystic fallacy since a long time ago that did not happen here or to read. Things in life: one day you feel full of life, with his head full of wild ideas about the relationship of the fall of the Berlin Wall Mandelbrot's theorem and the next day you think it's not worth wasting your precious time lavishing your musical onanism convoluted prose. It may be a good time to pick up hard drugs.
However, this prolonged drought literature to which I have been subjected during
the last three months has allowed me to explore some music projects that perhaps I would have gone unnoticed otherwise. In any case, a few weeks ago I had the pleasure of meeting at a concert to a group of patriotic music scene itself is worth it: Tinnitia. It was through them that I came to know of a number of bands that recently have filled my dead spaces between alcohol intoxication. One of them, which I would like to dedicate this post, is the champion of Metal-Progressive Italian, Ephel Duath name.
For those few false geek background to the name they have bristly hairs on your neck for no apparent reason, I will say that according to Wikipedia, Ephel Duath is a mountain range that keeps the border east and south of Mordor. At this time more than one will be thinking that I lost the cherimoya and have fallen into the downward spiral of medieval Heavy Arwen plan. But life holds surprises for us, nor have I lost the little musical approach that even I was, and these guys have dragons on the covers of his albums. If I had to define the musical style of these men say they are somewhere between Mr. Bungle's Disco Volante and the Miles Davis Bitches Brew, but possibly it does not do justice to the band, and the duo (sometimes trio, sometimes something else) goes a long way in Padua. Something in his music Jazz, Avant Garde something a little progressive rock and tons of Metal:
This track belongs to the acclaimed The Painter's Palette (2003), the second LP of the band and possibly one of the best records rampant art I've ever heard long time. Each of the nine songs on the album is subtitled with a pigment in one, I suppose, attempt to evoke some kind of primary reaction in the listener. Since then, his Praha, definitely sounds Ancient Gold.
However, the disk is really clean, although there are parts they do not quite jell as Ruins (Deep Blue and Purple) has high points as the only low Labyrinthine (Crimson) that you begin to feel like smashing furniture and burning pictures of your home.
Ultimately interesting acquisition for any self-respecting musicófilo hardened.
The next album in order of publication is named Pain Necessary to Know (2005).
In the beginning the group from a different premise: the music progresses throughout the lifetime of the album without passing twice on the same site and, overall, the implementation has a much less rational than the previous LP. It is unfortunate that a disc with just good passages is marred by an absolute determination as to disperse its contents. If I had to choose a theme to illustrate the general tone of the disc may be Vector, Third Movement (first in order of appearance):
This song, although not bad at all, it perhaps a little pretentious (funny I say that) in the sense that seems to try to put much more music than can fit in four minutes and lasts one quarter. Fragments impressive, but I am totally unable to think of one that I liked immediately after hearing the track.
's latest album, which I have not had access yet, is called Pain Remixes the Unknown (2007). In an unexpected bombshell has released an electronic plan reissue his earlier work. And people seem to like. I come to read comparisons to Aphex Twin, and that is too big. confess that the reason for this post, as well as prevent Mr. boat I eat a pulled left arm around him, is to encourage you to attend the concert Ephel Duath Tinnitia celebrated this week as openers. Will take place on Friday May 23 at 9 Siroco (c / San Dimas 3 meters Novitiate and San Bernardo, Madrid). Promises great things.
