In his ambitious fifth album as El Drogas , a long time apart from Barricada or Txarrena, Enrique Villarreal becomes acoustic, poetic, scoundrel and, of course, corrosive, especially when he undertakes it against Europe "that closes doors" and in the which shows an extreme right that pollutes everything and everyone.

"It is in the 'brexit', in the US and here with its resurgence as such. But also on the left itself, whether in the PSOE , More Country or We Can . Even in me or in you, because we are letting out the part (Santiago) Abascal more by mouth than where it has to leave, which is the ortho, "he denounces, referring to the leader of the extreme right-wing party Vox .

For this artist with a long journey and few halftones, extreme right means " selfishness , ignorance and fear , which produces that ignorance of what happens to the other, which right now is up to the neighbor", a reflection printed on new themes of denunciation as While art your country (quiet Europe) .

It is part of one of the five albums that make up his most ambitious work. "To Warner, to convince them, I told them it was going to be a disaster, because if it is already a CD, that is dead in two months , take out five would be the host. And I also told them that the title was going to be concise, "he jokes.

Because the name of the album, extracted from a verse by Leopoldo María Panero , is the longest of his career: "I only want witches on this night without company," which was released this past Friday, October 4.

" I am more of Zugarramurdi than of muses , that is why I prefer to call them witches and for the concept of strong and independent woman that has to be within each one," says Villarreal (Pamplona, ​​1959), who has surrounded herself with female voices such as Nina's, from Morgan.

For him, it is not just "recognition of the space to which everyone is entitled on equal terms." "Also because men need to let our share of women come out . We would win the coupon," he insists.

It took five and a half years to develop a project in which each disc was developed in chronological order, with the only common link of its sulfuric timbre, sometimes Acoustic (disk 1), others Oxidized and critical (disk 2), Canalla and de bullanga (disk 3, in tribute to rock and Argentine tango, to South American culture in general) and finally Fundido (disk 4) and Equivocado (disk 5).

"When I got stuck in one, I used to get songs from another roll that gave me oxygen, with scribbles that have ended up making up this fifth album, which is a disaster drawer ," he explains to a difficult project, especially in the second album because of his " uncomfortable melodies "for him, or in the room, with a voice so broken that" he could not sing three tracks in a row ".

And why in this fivefold record format, in times of ephemeral listening? "Because loose they would not have had the same entity and because I do not seek to reach the public in a massive way, just take care of mine, who have been following me for a long time", is justified before an album that adds 42 songs to all its in itself ample baggage.

"I do not worry too much to repeat myself. There are those who tell me that the third album is the one that most reminds them of Barricada , or that it is the second. Who they have to remember is Drugs, which is the one that has gone through all the stages and he has enjoyed them, "he says.

At the moment he accompanies in his massive farewell tour to other legendary rockers, La Polla Records , which next Friday, October 11, come to the WiZink Center in Madrid.

Then, together with his inseparable musicians Bridi Duque , Txus Maraví and Eugenio Aristu "Flako" , he will undertake a double tour of his own. From November 22, with a start in Barcelona, ​​the first three albums of this great album will be reworked in 19 concerts throughout Spain and, from the end of 2020, will restart content and set design to take care of the next two.

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