Xavier Herrero |
Madrid (EFE) I flirt with the world of the Latin urban that invites us to imagine more possible collaborations for the future.
Would you also work with the author of “El madrileño” or with Rosalía, who is releasing an EP this Friday?
“You never know. For me they are both great artists and, if the opportunity arises, of course, why not. I love sharing music”, he has responded to EFE before two of the most obvious options at the moment.
Beyond the hypotheses, what is already a reality is that first medium-length album (or “extended play” in English, EP) entitled “Correcaminos” and which, as he sings on the homonymous song, has impressed him another speed to his career.
“The times demand it. What you can’t do is be in the middle, between the era of records in which you spent 6 months in a studio to record and these that run with a different agility. I had these three songs and they burned in my hands, ”he alleges.
He also anticipates that we will not have to wait for the LP to take over from the previous “SANZ” (2021) to listen to more of his unpublished material in the coming months.
“We will have music for sure”, he indicates when noting the advantages of this system: “This way I can record songs and take them out, so that everything that goes on the album can be heard”.
“roadrunner”
Regarding “Correcaminos”, the flagship song of this release, he says that it was the opportunity that he had been waiting for “a long time” to work with Danny Ocean.
“He is one of the most personal and talented artists out there, very original in his way of doing things and a guy who doesn’t give up, who is always looking for something better, also very sophisticated in the studio. ”, he points out.
He also has good words for the producer of the song, Alizzz, especially famous for his work on the controls at the service of artists like C. Tangana, Jorge Drexler or Amaia Romero.
“I hadn’t heard of him until he showed me his work and someone on my team proposed it. He is a very serious and very sensitive guy in the studio, also very stubborn about excellence in sound, so we got along very well”, he celebrates.
As if anticipating possible criticism for the stylistic drift of the theme, the Spaniard sings in the lyrics: “And when they judge and criticize and ask me why I took this path, I am a traveler, an adventurer, I am the motherfucking roadrunner.”
“I’ve been mixing urban with my music for 20 years, so I don’t consider it anything new”, replies the author of songs like “It’s not the same”, after insisting that he has always understood his composition “openly, with amplitude” and generosity” when making different genres coexist, “without fear of styles”.
keep innocence
The EP is completed with two songs in which his signature is most recognizable, “Cuándo” and “Volé”, in which he engages in a dialogue with the child who ceased to be.
“I try not to let it go completely, but there are parts of that Alejandro that no longer exist, innocence for example. I used to believe that everyone was good and I was very confident when putting aspects of my life in the hands of others. Disappointments separate you from that child, but you also gain decision-making capacity, ”she reflects.
Another part of the song is striking, in which he says: “And I flew, I flew and I flew without looking back, I flew, I flew, I flew to freedom.”
“I have not stopped flying towards freedom since I started this. In fact, I started in music to be free”, affirms who, after including the retrospective song “Bio” on his previous album, considers “it is good to look back from time to time, see where you are and what has happened before to look where to go”.
He resumes his tour on April 14
This spirit coincides with the announcement of the opening of a house-museum dedicated to his figure in his mother’s hometown, Alcalá de los Gazules (Cádiz). “It is wonderful (to have something like that). It is also a bit of a review of my life, but more than a house-museum for use with objects, it is a place to live sensory experiences and listen to things that are only there”, she explains.
On April 14, the presentation tour of “Sanz en vivo” will resume in Bogotá, an extensive “tour” that will stop in spring in other Latin American cities such as Lima (April 20), Guayaquil (April 22), Santiago de Chile ( April 26 and 27) or Buenos Aires (May 11, 12 and 14), to name a few.
He will return to Spain from June 3, when he will perform in Pamplona and offer concerts in places such as Valencia (June 15), Barcelona (June 17) or Madrid (June 29 and 30), to finish off the summer and start the autumn in the US, with performances such as those in Miami (September 23), New York (September 30) or Los Angeles (October 14).