Alcalá Norte launches its new anthem, ‘El hombre planeta’, on the trail of ‘La vida canyon’ | Culture | EUROtoday

Alcalá Norte, revelation group of the final yr and a half in Spanish music, begins to chart the trail of its second album. Today Thursday he printed the primary track, The planet man, of an album that may arrive in September or October. On February 20, 2027, he presents this new assortment of songs stay on the Movistar Arena in Madrid, within the largest paid live performance of his brief profession. Alcalá Norte’s debut, with the identical title and printed in 2024, ranked first among the many better of the yr in quite a few specialised and basic publications, together with the cultural complement of EL PAÍSBabelia. The anthem was included The canyon life, a motto that has develop into a slogan to outline moments of solace and a useful resource to title books, reminiscent of The canyon life: The historical past of Spain by way of the boomersby Analía Plaza. The album additionally contains items reminiscent of Elfo Street, The Blood of the Poor o The Kids, chanted by an intergenerational viewers starting from 20 to 50 years previous. Álvaro Rivas (Madrid, 31 years previous), singer and lyricist of the Madrid quintet, tells by phone the germ of The planet man: “After two months of operations and bed rest due to complications in an appendicitis operation, I celebrated that I was fine by walking around and went into a bookstore. There I found The Florentine night, by Heinrich Heine. I had already read some of his poetry, but never anything longer. And I was caught by this story where it talks, among other things, about Paganini and his pact with the devil. That inspired the lyrics for me. “I liked the man-planet syntagm that Heine also develops in the work.”

Rivas turns to intellectuals from the 18th and nineteenth centuries to attract inspiration for a few of his lyrics. Like the German Heinrich Heine (1797-1856), a multidisciplinary man who not solely restricted his artwork to poetry. Playwright, journalist and, above all, traveler, in lots of his texts he denounced the social posturing and politics of the post-Napoleonic interval of the Restoration, the time during which he lived. In Florentine nights tells the story of Niccolò Paganini’s pact with the satan to achieve talent on the violin. Years later, a variant of this diabolical settlement would emerge, however with blues musician Robert Johnson because the protagonist.

“I didn’t know much about Paganini, no doubt part of my lack of culture. Then I became more informed,” explains Rivas, who additionally attracts parallels within the lyrics with some issues that may be heard and skilled within the atmosphere of a rock band that’s beginning out. The lyrics say: I’m your supervisor: Satan! Who else goes that can assist you… / I information the hand of your bow. / You acquire the hundreds of thousands, the applause is for you, you identify the track.” The planet man It appears like Alcalá Norte, and that has benefit once we are confronted with the primary track of solely their second album: the guitar “with a violin sound” (as Rivas defines), the keyboards creating atmospheres, the eighties bass and drums, and the voice, rising with extra readability. “I have worked a lot with the singing teacher and with a speech therapist. I have followed the suggestions of the band, who asked me for better diction. And that is where we are…”, notes the singer.

The track, which is accompanied by a suggestive video, is devoted to Ana María Calle Mañas. “It’s my grandmother, who died recently,” explains Rivas. “She was the one I was with the first years of my life, when my mother died.” Alcalá Norte travels subsequent week to carry out in Mexico, and this summer time it’s on the lineup for a number of festivals. At the identical time, the band data its second album.