Xavier Herrero |
Madrid (EFE).- In his first studio album in 7 years, “La trenchera pop”, Iván Ferreiro revolutionizes his creative process with the usual goal of “making beautiful music”, even if it is based on apparently “rare” ideas such as singing about a canon by Vivaldi or the tune of the mythical program “El hombre y la tierra” on RTVE.
“There are those who think that I do strange things to seem strange, but no,” the Galician artist specified in a chat with EFE after assuring that, “deep down”, what he intends “is to be a pop product and endure in the collective memory 20 years from now, which is what pop is, although for many it is a reviled word”.
Avoiding the boredom of always making records in the same way in a “competition against himself” already led him during the tour of his previous album, “Casa” (2016), to establish the “philosophical” bases of this work that is being published this Friday.
To begin with, he decided to “build it from a place other than the piano or the guitar.” He had begun to accumulate “electronic toys” like an “organelle” together with his faithful squire in the composition, his brother Amaro, and decided that this time these would be the basis of the creation.
On the other, to appeal to that David Lynch “who does not explain things, because life does not explain itself” and “to also do lyrics in a different way, putting philosophy on the table” and avoiding clear speeches such as “te I miss” always so that they worked “in a contradictory way, like our heads”.
“The goal was for the song to move people without you really knowing what he was talking about, and Iván has managed to make everyone listen to what they want to hear, even if he didn’t say it, like a type of quantum writing,” observes Amaro Ferreiro, seated at his side, before what he considers his brother’s “best record”.
It has taken seven years to shape it “from calm, without obsessions”, to “decant it like wine” and to synthesize each of the songs that make it up with a unique formula, especially in the face of complex challenges such as the “atavistic” “Humanity y la tierra”, which “samples” together with Tanxugueiras the tune of the mythical television program presented by Félix Rodríguez de la Fuente.
“I’m not in such a rush to make records anymore and with this one I didn’t want to suffer, or overwhelm myself in front of paper or machines. If one day we got stuck, we would go and make dinner”, underlines Ferreiro under the firm idea that, with so many albums behind him since his days with Los Piratas, if he published something at 52 years old it was to say something new.
That is partly what “La trenchera pop” (Warner Music) is about, the creative process of records and exposing oneself, “unbuckling your seatbelt” or walking on “the wire”, as some of the songs say.
“Just as in a lot of situations I would like to be protected, when I compose is when I don’t have to protect myself. And I need it to be seen that I’m exposing myself”, points out Ferreiro, before reflecting that “it’s only fucking getting old in pop if you want to be a revered old man, not if what you want is simply to make pop and you don’t give importance to that”. .
Curling the loop in search of discoveries, in the cut that closes the album they decided to use an entire interpretation of Antonio Vivaldi’s Max Richter, with lyrics in which they “imitate Andrés Calamaro when he imitates Bob Dylan”.
“For me Andrés is one of the great Spanish writers of all time. His arrival was very important, because I think that until then many Spanish groups were very calm and proud with our letrillas and he showed that we could go further ”, he points out.
Because “that’s the beauty of pop, that it feeds itself”, he points out below, an idea that they materialized with the limited vinyl edition of this album for which they used old cases from other records, from Mocedades to the series of mythical compilations ” Boom!”, on which they stuck the cover of “La trinchera pop”.
To listen to it live, at the moment there is a single presentation date on March 24 at the Palace of Congresses and Exhibitions of Galicia, in Santiago de Compostela.