In times of pandemic, Fito Páez seems to be the mantererse as a relator of the world treats his music.
It’s a treat to make with “The Conqueror of Space”, which competes with the Grammy for the best Latin rock album or alternative music on March 14th.
“It’s not a very happy world, but it’s tenemos and I should be numbered,” Paez told The Associated Press in a recent interview. “We’re all in the barracks and the barracks are very slow … I’m in all cases part of the Titanic band; I want to go to the final, it’s my goal ”.
“La conquista del espacio” the mercy of the Latin Grammy Argentine rocker: better pop / rock album, and more pop / rock by “La canción de las bestias”, in which case we can arrange a future that is present as a great desert.
Launched in a gloomy year as of 2020, the album works as an apocalyptic “soundtrack” species (by its lyrics) and read (by its rhythms) along the way, with songs like “The Things I Have Well”, “ Nadie is from nadie ”and the dolorse dolorosa“ People in the pool ”with Lali.
“Clear!”, Dijo Páez. “If you read it now or listen to it COVID key works very well, there is a disco case right next to a futurologist in a sense”.
Pero a personal level, for the music of 57 years is an album of reasoning in which one encounters the possibility of becoming a nacer like the phoenix.
“I say that in the end it will be like the relationship that everything can be done to make and rehabilitate”, he said. This is the last phrase of the album, “yet all is said and done”, which is accompanied by an orchestra and the sound of a typewriter. The machine, he explained, is “writing the story of what it is that is going to happen”.
With the release of “Abre”, which is the first and only other Grammy Anglo nomination, Paez celebrates his new post on “rock” labels or “alternative music”.
“If you ask me, I feel like playing popular Argentine music in a sense if we want to find a possible definition. Although we also know that this is a very delirious zone because the music does not have a concrete definition ”, says the Latin Grammys guitarist, whose album combines piano and pop tunes with blues and symphonic music.
“Whenever the definitions in the music are in favor of trying to differentiate the differences, the intention is to point out the different differences, since the music has no space so it has a value in itself”, added.
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The career of Páez, initiated by the principles of the decade of 1980, has been congruent in his search for constant experimentation. If there is anything that characterizes it, it will never be quiet.
“So it’s an alternative … I’m a musician, for me it’s a natural condition, I’m always looking for curiosity about something that is not known in the musical aspect. In general, I fit in with everything in life, but in the music I can play ”, dijo. “I’m sure you own my office a lot more, do you?”, And I feel this curiosity that is good for music. I’m sorry to be sorry ”.
Paez, also a writer and filmmaker, starred in all engine in 2020. Terminó un guion que tenía pendiente, hizo una gira de virtual pressa to present “La conquista del espacio”, compose new music y, from July to November, steauo concentrating writing first 30 years of his autobiography.
“Eso fue todo”, dijo. “A huracan”.
For the 2021 beveel ‘poner el hombro’ to round off these difficult times aan.
“I understand that we are all thinking of solidarity as a reality, as something practical and real at the moment,” he said.