Sidecars, at EL PAÍS live shows: “In Alameda de Osuna it was easier to pick up a guitar than a ball” | Culture | EUROtoday

They have been collectively for twenty years and are one of many important bands of Spanish music. Despite this, Sidecars nonetheless sees the aim very distant. The trio introduced their newest album, Everestin a gathering with readers held final Monday, March 16 on the Teatros Luchana in Madrid. You can now benefit from the interview and the reside efficiency supplied by the group on video. The EL PAÍS Meetings are a part of the loyalty program for EL PAÍS+ subscribers.

The band, made up of Juancho (vocals and guitar), Gerbass (bass) and Ruly (drums), began the occasion with A grain of sandaccompanied by Sergio Valdehita on keyboards. It is the third time they’ve attended the EL PAÍS Meetings led by music journalist Fernando Navarro. They acknowledged that, though recording an album is all the time just like “climbing a mountain,” their largest impediment has been overcoming the picture of a longtime group and reinventing themselves. To do that they’ve taken dangers and experimented with sound.

Synthesizers and fewer guitars

“For us, starting songs like In slow motion o what remains with a synthesizer it’s amazing and no one knows about it,” Juancho commented with a laugh. For his seventh studio album, in addition to composing, Juancho has tried his hand at production, for which they have had the help of Paco Salazar, producer of Viva Sweden, and Dani Fernández. “We had the need to renew our sound a little. Don’t lose the illusion. Stay focused and rejoice,” the singer revealed.

“We have already lived half a life, it was time to rest and now we begin the second part”

Gerbass, Sidecars bassist

The album arrives after a break of a yr, confronted at a selected second: the group had simply crammed the Movistar Arena and had already written the 13 songs that make up Everest. They simply wanted to report. It was at that second once they determined to placed on the brakes: Ruly took the chance to make a transfer that he had been suspending for a while, Gerbass devoted himself fully to his household and Juancho went on tour with Leiva, his brother, whom he accompanies because the Leiband guitarist. Twenty years of profession doesn’t take away the vertigo of returning, which they face just like the break of a basketball recreation: “We have already lived half a life, it was time for break and now we begin the second half,” Gerbass acknowledged.

Everest options the feminine voices of Laura Rull on Offline and Esmeralda Escalante in In sluggish movement. “It arose naturally, not a lot due to enterprise“explained Juancho. In both cases, they explained that the voices of their companions made the songs better. The singer and friend Iván Ferreiro also participates in ten secondsin a musical device that they called “metamusic” and in which the Galician interprets some phrases of Circular thinking.

From Alameda de Osuna to Mexico City

Above all, Sidecars is a neighborhood band. “In Alameda de Osuna it was easier to pick up a guitar than a ball,” said Juancho. Faced with the meteoric rise of younger bands like Arde Bogotá, Viva Sweden or Ultraligera, “they have had to eat a lot of shit and value every full seat.” However, they celebrate the success of their colleagues and live music: “Now there’s a extra large viewers and every part strikes quicker. It is an indication of the instances. If they work, they have interaction shortly and transfer ahead,” Ruly added.

The Madrid trio will begin the tour of Everest next April 18 in Mexico City. They will do it without their team and with a repertoire yet to be released: “I’m proud of the choice. In that effort lies the wonder and the respect that we wish to present them,” Juancho added. Then they will play throughout Spain until finishing with a great concert at the Movistar Arena on January 29, 2027.

During the audience’s turn, one of the readers asked the group about the views from the top. For Juancho, there is still a lot to climb: “We have an extended approach to go. It’s a little bit of a metaphor for the place we’re, which is in the midst of the street and we hope we do not get there quickly as a result of then we simply must go down, proper?” he joked. “The idea is to continue climbing, the views are still the peak, between clouds,” he concluded.

To finish, the group performed acoustically In slow motion y Eclipse. The readers burst into applause. There are Sidecars for a while.

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