David Moldes |
Vigo, Jul 6 (EFE).- Antón Álvarez, C. Tangana, composer of the Celta de Vigo Centenary Anthem, is excited to have had the opportunity to sign ‘Oliveira dos cen anos’, an emotional and choral piece that draws from folklore Galician and with which ‘El Madrileño’ feels even closer to his usual team.
“This has united me a little more,” he told in an interview with EFE on the occasion of the premiere.
For him, it has been an “emotional” project, since it is his “lifelong” club, the one that his father, who “has always been very Galician”, showed him in Balaídos.
For C. Tangana, this is therefore an unbeatable opportunity to honor his “old man”, his land, his culture, the one that Antón Álvarez admires, respects, loves and cares for, in his own words.
Antón Álvarez senior left his autonomous community for Madrid, but “he has always been very Galician”, explains his descendant, “as they say, nationalist, even”. And, as everything that he has been transmitting to him is very illustrative for him, “bringing him to the club in this way has been very nice”.
Hymn with different symbols of the culture of Vigo
In the hymn, presented in Afundación, different symbols of Vigose culture participate, such as the emblematic Coral Casablanca, the pandereteiras group As Lagharteiras and the popular Celtic rock Tropas de Breogán, in addition to the Keltoi band.
C. Tangana, to deal with the great feat that has fallen on him, has wanted to write about the “Celtic feeling”, the one that he carries in his heart. He does not forget what he experienced last June when the Galician team certified their permanence with an agonizing victory against the league champion. “Salvation was very important,” Antón Álvarez (Madrid, 1990) says today with relief.
The video clip directed by the rapper who was born in the Spanish capital and grew up in Carabanchel is for “the club, the city and Celticism.” “Creatively I’ve never been that ambitious,” he confesses about his “more complicated” production.
And if someone thought “who is this ‘ghicho’ who comes here from Madrid”, he says that for him Celticism is an act of militancy and his cannot be questioned.
As proof, he affirms emphatically that the signing of the coach Rafa Benítez, who replaces the Portuguese Carlos Carvalhal on the Balaídos bench, would have been equally happy. “I was going to be happy about Rafa, whether he did the anthem or not,” he jokes.
A hymn that the composer, who is absolutely fascinated by genius and originality, would like to last “one hundred years” more and remain in the memory.
Recorded in Vigo during the second half of March, it was born after a preliminary investigation phase together with important references of Galician culture, such as the writer Pedro Feijoo, the musician Rodrigo Romaní -one of the founders of Milladoiro-, or Alfredo Dourado, a member of other Galician folk classics such as A Roda.