Wednesday, April 6, 2011

Fernando Alfaro: "Although my songs talk about death, is an act of optimism"

"Waking up in this black car that looks suspiciously like a coffin ...." "I never felt life like now, I lose." The stark stanzas of Life is strange and rare, the new album by Fernando Alfaro-ex Surfin 'Bichos, Chucho ex-should be read from a distance that provide the irony and humor, the author warns.

If you have never lose sight of the torment. He was a member of Surfin 'Bichos, Chucho, he played with the alienated and now goes solo. How many name changes are still maintaining an essence? From inside me is hard to quantify, but those who know me say that the last work has a recognizable stamp.

As for the changes, they had a lot to see the producer, Raul Fernandez (Refree). We wanted a radical work, full of contrasts. The first single is just a sample of the album, its title is in itself a paradox: Hawaiian Shirt force. And you, what has been more times, the Hawaiian or force? (Laughter) It's that always goes with the other, are inseparable.

The title of the first single is a paradox of love, a paradox between freedom and slavery, the madness that is the self-marginalization and foreign havens ... These images are absurd, but the things you do for love are absurd. Are the titles of their songs are pure surrealism, come with second or are inspired by a DSM4 (Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders)? All have their rationale, but sometimes that reason escapes me up to me and then would enter a little on the DSM4.

The reason may be crazy, but it's not surreal or made through automatic writing. They say that despite writing phrases like "I am nothing but my pain," he likes to claim the humorous tone of his records. Yes, in my albums there is much irony and humor. .. maybe black, but humor. Sometimes people do not grasp this nuance and that makes the letters are not well understood.

I think this album is more evident. The sense of humor makes us human and allows us to deal with things that otherwise would be too painful. Sometimes people do not get the humor of the issues and not well understood A word game: A Fernando Alfaro, what is the beacon that guides you? The same as I have attempted to separate many times: the music.

It is a world full of trouble ... but sometimes can be very rewarding. At the end I always felt the need to return to it and record new songs. The composition is an act of optimism: though your songs talk about death, constitute a denial of this because they involve creating something for someone to listen and, thus, subsist at the time.

The songs also make you strong, even when telling what your weaknesses or what destroys you. Protect you. The CD of his friend Nacho Vegas is at the top of sales. Do you have many friends or is it begins to appeal to the indie mainstream audiences? Yes, we have many friends and they all buy the discs Nacho (laughs) Just kidding! We see that what has been given to call is now more independent in the media.

For me it is simply a standard logic, the case in other countries. This music is part of popular culture and the importance it deserves. Many times in the stages of growing crisis the most interesting. The crisis make room for those who have something to say. Maybe he's putting his finger on the pulse ...

with his former bandmates, who later formed the band Mercromina, healed scars? There were no injuries, in large part because the group ended when he must. We still have a very good friendship. In fact, every time we have a better and closer relationship. They no longer see much because I live in Barcelona for a year and a half, but whenever I Albacete, try to be.

My question is addressed to a person who has worked at a gas station, were you ever able to fool a driver to buy his film instead of the Fary? (Laughter) Is that the gas station where she worked did not sell my tapes, they knew my music, there arrived. But among the customers I had at that time, more than eight years, had not only buyers from El Fary.

He also sold tapes of artists like Bob Dylan and Leonard Cohen. Do more to life league going deep? I guess it depends on who. What's under so much depth? I do not know, sometimes it's a little afraid to look within. We all have a deep, but some people cope and some people know less. Sometimes we fill our lives with activities, tasks, because this depth gives a little dizzy.

But according to what things, like writing songs, is really well. Fernando Alfaro will perform on May 13 in Seville (Teatro Central), Madrid 14 (Sun), 19 in Valencia (El Loco), 20 in Murcia (twelve and a half) and June 18 in Valladolid (Veral .) Fenando Alfaro (Albacete, 1964) made his first steps in the music world in 1986, the punk band funeral procession.

However, it was not until the creation of the band Surfin 'Bichos who achieved great notoriety in alternative circles, where the group was considered a preview of the indie scene. In 1995 began a new musical adventure, Chucho, which lasted until 2005. After recording with the alienated, just started a solo career.

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