Robe Iniesta New album, Socratic inspiration and uncertain tour for Extremoduro
New tour and message to Extremoduro "Now I have the best band I have ever had in my life"
The end of Extremoduro Robe Iniesta unilaterally suspends the tour and announces a solo project
He has been throwing stones for more than 30 years and avoiding giving explanations.
Robe Iniesta
(Plasencia, 1962) is the archetype of a rough poet, or perhaps a rough poet, who considers rock to be the best tool to tell the truth of life, or perhaps its truth.
"You have to have doubts," he claims over and over again during the interview, which is carried out by means of a phone call from a hidden number.
"I live in small towns," he says in a voice that is also small, a laughing voice completely different from the broken, almost animal growl that resounds in his songs.
"Between Plasencia and a little town near Bilbao"
, Add. Avoid Crowds Robe just as you generally avoid interviews, because you don't like them. "There are many people who only want to interview you for the sensationalism, not to talk about music, and then you find each headline ...", he explains. "Because if you ask a guy 'hey, do you like that when you're playing the guitar, a six-foot-tall black guy comes from behind and gives you the ass?'" He continues, laughing, "and the guy says that no, but you put the headline: "What I don't like when I'm playing is that a six-foot-tall black man comes and gives me the ass", because that's a hell of a headline, but of course, everyone would think, ' host, and where does this guy play the guitar? '"
In spring Robe Iniesta released his third solo album,
Mayútica
, recorded in 2018 and frozen to be released after the farewell tour of
Extremoduro
, the group that he has led from 1987 to 2019. However, that final tour, scheduled for spring 2020 and whose hundreds of thousands of tickets were sold out in a few days, was delayed by the pandemic. The dam broke last March, when the guitarist and singer unilaterally decided to
cancel the massive Extremoduro concerts
, close the song, publish his album and go out to play with a new group: a tour of 19 cities that began on 4 September and which will be extended in 2022.
What aftertaste did the end of Extremoduro leave you? Well, bad, bad. Well, it was a farewell, which already has a bitter aftertaste, but we cannot remain stranded by the pandemic. You have to accept it and keep
going
. We haven't been with this for two months, it's two years. Was ending Extremoduro a bit liberating? Well, when you close a stage it's not something that comes up suddenly. In life the most important thing is the desire, and when you see that you start to lose the desire and the illusion and, on the other hand, when I got into this story alone and saw that things can be done differently than we were doing in the group ... what if it was liberating? Well, in a certain way, yes, yes, he has called his latest album
Mayrapeutica
, which is a philosophical concept that comes from Socrates that consists of asking questions of a person so that they understand the truth for themselves. What interests you about that idea? Well, they don't have to be questions, it can be anything that can make you think and that may help you get to know yourself better. It can be a song or something you read or anything else that helps you to know things about yourself that were there, but that you were not clear about. Get a little hooked on the
innate law
roll
(2011), which were things that one has inside. The word comes from the Greek of the word childbirth or to give birth, to give birth, it would more or less mean to give birth to the truth. Socrates called him that because his mother was a midwife. He said that in a certain way he was working on the same thing, to make you reborn or have another birth. Is his way of writing songs also a bit like childbirth? Well yes, well yes, in a certain way yes, because I don't know never what will come out of there. There are creators who set a path, they say, "Well, I'm going to be like a potter, I'm going to make a jug", and they get a jug. I can't do that. I am as if I were an archaeologist who began to dig in a place and I do not know what I am going to find. I can't predetermine anything, not even if it's going to be sad, happy, funky, smooth. Nerd,I sit down with the guitar and the only thing that interests me is if it excites me. And then already in the background because it is something that makes us think, but if it does not excite me, it is useless for me. I need my feelings to move and my head to move. How do you deal with the moral climate of this time? Does it limit you? Well, I see with a bit of amazement that we continue in these things that were believed to be surpassed, and I am afraid that this is all the influence of the Americans, who eat our heads with their fucking movies and with their puritanism and their rolls and that fuck with cigarette paper. I don't understand it too much. When it comes to composing, it certainly doesn't affect me. And if I have to say something and it motivates me, then I say it. And well, then it may not appear in one place or another, because in these social networks the tacos take them off ... Well, I sweat it.I can't think of anything when composing, I have to let myself go. And if there is something that is politically incorrect, then perhaps it also works as a shock. I believe that words must be used all, both strong and soft. You have to use them because they all have their meaning. Sometimes point-blank ideas to make you think are fine. If they are politically correct or not, I do not know, that I think is something that politicians have invented to try to look good in front of the largest number of people, but it is not my goal either. Well, in fact their goal I imagine is the opposite, to remove more than to please. Of course, of course, and to remove because you cannot always be pleasing. Is there a song that I do not sing because I think it is no longer appropriate? Well, yes, this happens to you,because you make songs at a time that you feel one way and then it's very easy to not get that point. To sing something I have to believe and feel it, because otherwise I feel ridiculous. On this tour for example they have been left out
The lullaby
and
The saddest song
because I didn't feel like shit getting in there at that point or putting the public in. Right now with things so screwed up, getting into sad songs and having them hit a nerve I didn't feel like singing. Do you feel free in Spain when it comes to singing or is it censored here? It is censored in many ways. To start from social networks, which censor words or tacos. But I have always carried this very normally. 30 years ago there were also many things that could not be said and in the end you say them. Then for a letter you drop a concert or whatever it is and, well, they are hazards of the trade, is that I cannot be thinking about that when composing.
How do you value the government's work to defend musicians during the pandemic? How do I value it? Well fatal. Fatal. I don't think they have done anything. It is a sector that is very precarious, most of us are self-employed, and now I have seen colleagues who have had to go to pick fruit because they cannot work. And while the Government only spoke of tourism and tourism, and hospitality, and tourism and hospitality. And it seems that everything has been focused on that battle, but nothing has been said about culture and music. The concerts have been demonized from the beginning and no help has been seen anywhere. Next year he turns 60. How are you doing? Well, a little bad. The changes of the decade feel worse. Fuck, it sounds kind of bad. I certainly don't see myself as a 60-year-old. What remains of the Robe from 30 years ago? I don't know what remains,but in life you have to evolve and you have to change, you have to change. But I have the same enthusiasm making songs and the same impatience to teach them. I have spent long periods without composing anything, it is something that is consuming you a little, trying every day and not liking a single phrase of what you do. I have been like this for up to five years. Now I am very happy about that, because I see myself in a good moment and I sit down with the guitar and I want to do new things, they come out with pleasure and easily and I see myself in a good moment. Do you have new songs? confinement he was playing the guitar all day without doing anything else. I have come up with a lot of ideas, I already have songs prepared and an album in sight and I really want to get into the rehearsal room and record again.Now I want to play this year and next year and in between I don't have time to release a record, but I would like to release some songs, like the kids do now that they release single songs. What are those new songs like? They have no relationship with each other, It has come out of everything, some funky, others soft. They are quite different, there is no like in
Maieutics
a thread that guides everything. But they
will have to do, because whenever you
compose songs in the same time there is
something similar, at the end you are prowling the same things by cabeza.¿También are love songs especially as
Mayéutica
Well, I suppose so, but I have to interpret it.
The thing is that they come out and there are some that I interpret as they come out and others that take a long time.
Composing I feel like a spectator, it's as if it's not me, but I'm digging, I'm finding things and then I have to analyze it.
You are writing poetry, you are not telling a story, you are linking phrases, words, ideas, sounds, rhythms ... It is not that everything you write necessarily has to be understood.
No. Besides, I am not interested in understanding everything I am saying, what interests me is that it excites me.
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