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The Zona Sucia is his fifth album, after three years of his brilliant Manifesto Disaster Nacho Vegas comes back and wins again. From his beginnings with Manta Ray I followed everything this Spaniard made, with almost religious conviction. Please note, the taste does not go indie, you know I am totally for blues, but it is precisely here where Nacho gets to sink his way to build characters in his subjects is of high quality, as well as with an endearing simplicity, as a friend says: “he embraces you and warms you”.
La Zona Sucia is that side of the formula 1 highway where there is waste. What is this album about then? You guessed it! About loss, heartbreak, the end of romance, the one who leaves. But La Zona Sucia has few of dark, despite its shadow, it glows, gives hope, lightens. Album of just 44 minutes, ready for two sides of vinyl, La Zona Sucia meets a mature Nacho Vegas from a musical point of view, with more synthesis and a lot of energy.
How standing the lack of love in good mood? Just listen to songs like “La gran broma final”, “Reloj sin manecillas”, “Perplejidad, and you’ll have the answer.”Lo que comen las brujas” will make you cry thinking of your mother just arrived from the store with candies. Trust me. Curiously this album came out February 14. Nacho says he tried to avoid it, but everything, sure, everything that is avoided is what pursues us most. As stated in the lyrics of “La Comedia Humana”: and if I look at you we don’t talk, although there is so much to tell… Word is not a mean to be happy.
Nacho has been so often compared to Nick Cave, Leonard Cohen, Tom Waits and long-etc., all those great folk rock artists, worship songwriters that approach the status of “poets”. Nacho Vegas efforts to form a solid own space just being 36 should be considered, and this has little to do with myths.
Sure, the man did or does multiple hard drugs, I don’t know how good it’s for him to be with Rosenvinge… He would be happier with me… meow! But to the point: a real cult author creates an image that is replicated by the media for his art. Nacho Vidal has been able to play with this, performativity. The construction of his stories in each song, and this Nacho Vegas character building is undeniably original and touching. Perhaps for this one must have a gift, or as my friend Lou Reed says: Electricity comes from other planets.
I am going to his concerts both dates. Further info on the following website: http://www.auditori.cat/
SISTER RAY
So let the words be pulverized, let the music in and get one of the apartments in Barcelona on March 18 and 19 to see this beautiful man whose only mistake, in my opinion, was recording with Bunbury, who is insufferable! The appointment is in the Auditorium.
