These songs speak about you: the novel of significant studying that fills live performance halls | Culture | EUROtoday

It is kind of seemingly that one of many verses of one of many 12 songs on the album Trip to Rome speak about you. Because maybe in some unspecified time in the future in your life you decided with out being very clear concerning the causes; or went on a automobile journey with a pal singing—or shouting—songs from his adolescence; or he lived a fleeting love story in a metropolis that isn’t his personal and that, at occasions, reminded him of a scene from a film; or he spoke an excessive amount of with out which means to—or with out figuring out what he actually needed to, to open an escape route—and regretted it instantly afterwards, when he realized that just a few phrases can change a relationship without end; or as a result of it retains in reminiscence proustiana the style of a dish or a wine; or as a result of he compulsively checked out his cellphone ready for a message that, when it lastly arrived, was devastating; or as a result of, confronted with a type of issues that seem in a single’s early twenties, one acted desperately, as if the solar weren’t going to rise the subsequent day.

Trip to Rome tells the spherical journey by automobile of two pals from Bilbao to the Italian capital. “We had the goal of making the album enjoyable in a light way and, at the same time, also understood by those who wanted to delve deeper. Simplicity is a challenge and the songs talk about how life doesn’t have much meaning, about funny, cynical or contradictory things: a young man in love leaves his protons in Bilbao to go to Rome, there he falls in love with a girl who tells him to fuck off, he screws up everywhere, he returns home without having learned anything…”, summarizes Mario García-Atucha (Bilbao, 27 years old), second of four brothers, graduated in Philosophy and Business Studies, student of Hispanic Philology, worker in the financial sector, who has just published Blashis first novel, and he is the singer and leader of Galerna, a band that fills rooms with their original musical version of learning novels.

The other challenge was to achieve, precisely, “that it was not a novel with music. That all of the songs will be heard independently [en los conciertos se interpretan en orden cronológico]which are business or pop in a sure sense, which are closed and on the similar time preserve the story and coherence between them.” “I used to be excited to create a piece that represented the which means of issues by means of narration. A narrative with a starting, center and finish. Plenty of fantastic or literary issues occur to us, however we now have to be those to present them which means with a drawing. If not, they’re nothing. Even if issues do not make sense, you need to give it to them. Life exceeds our expectations. And in youth, irrespective of how idealistic or pretentious you’re, you can’t management what occurs to you. Sometimes one thing that one thinks may be very highly effective, very solemn and transcendental continues to be a mere sexual impulse. It is tough to calculate what we need to be. The world goes past our head, that’s the reason the album displays totally different characters, in order that it’s not a monologue or a dialog with oneself. It is an album to speak concerning the smallness of the person and his fragility,” explains the creator.

Galerna is made up of a bunch of pals who’re united by a ardour for music and browsing. Although they have been already enjoying in 2016, the group consolidated after the pandemic. In addition to García-Atucha, they’re Miguel Flores (bass), Lucas Gómez (drums), Carlos Yohn (pianist) and Guillermo Marban (guitar). They rehearse two days per week in a hamlet in Aizkorri (the place McEnroe, certainly one of their references, in addition to Wilco, Mark Kozelek and Andrew Bird, additionally rehearsed). The title of the band comes “from those strange summer days in the north, when there are 30 degrees and total activity and, suddenly, in an instant, everything becomes black and melancholic, tension and contradiction are generated…”.

During the composition of the album, García-Atucha despatched Marban the songs through voice notes. On August 3, 2022, they carried out it for the primary time in entrance of individuals exterior the band. “It was with some friends. They were very excited and it also generated a certain modesty in them. It is a very raw album in some parts. Also very daring. Although sometimes you have to force the experiences a little to give them a full meaning, there is always a personal part in which one opens up, but I think there is a bit of myth around the honesty of the artist. It is impossible because whenever you tell something you do it in a partial way,” confesses the singer.

Once it started its tour within the live performance halls, the Trip to Rome was including vacationers. Last November they gathered practically 1,000 folks within the But room in Madrid. Among the respectable there have been barbours and soccer jerseys —“it’s a mix of Ciudadanos voters and Radio 3 audiences,” summarized one attendee—, youngsters and retirees, {couples}, teams of pals and individuals who got here alone. There was silence initially of every tune they usually sang some verses with enthusiasm and an existentialist tone. “I swear I’m not saying this because it’s our band, but I haven’t experienced this at other concerts. It has generated devotion. It is of a very strong intensity. The concentration, the emotion… there are even people who have made the trip to Rome with the stops that are told on the album,” displays the musician. The subsequent stops on the tour shall be in Zaragoza (January 16), Valencia (January 17), Bilbao (January 22) and Barcelona (January 24).

Trip to Rome combines excessive emotional voltage—with intense conversations, the concern of not discovering leisure to fill the hours of a visit or small each day catharsis—and the simplicity of the mundane—of the enjoyment of discovering a parking area to the rescue of the verb morrear, which appeared already out of use; as a verb, it’s understood. “I believe that the album captures contradictory nuances in the people who listen to it,” explains García-Atucha, who claims to behave “desperately, in the sense of doing so without hope of fame.” “Every time I finish a concert I can’t even talk, it creates a lot of tension and I get very emotional,” he provides.

―One of the questions that the general public attending their concert events asks is whether or not Inés or Marta, or whoever the individuals who signify these characters within the story are, have gone to see a live performance.

-I don’t know. We are all a bit of bit Marta or a bit of bit Inés. No one is totally harmless. When somebody turns their face to somebody, they might unintentionally be turning their again on one other. We all have a few of that. There will be no goodness with out meanness, however real love, which is that of friendship, consists in forgiving meanness.

—And the place do you assume the key lies for therefore many individuals liking the album a lot?

—I believe certainly one of its robust factors is that it would not give solutions, it brings questions. It shouldn’t be moralistic. Why have I finished this? Or why is that this my weak spot? And I believe in that sense it is comforting, as a result of it tells you that you simply’re not alone in your normality. That’s what it is about.