Me voy a permitir el lujo de comparar a Bunbury con Prince. No por su calidad musical, ni tampoco por su estilo o composición. Bunbury (voluntaria o involuntariamente) is earning the title of “star” and “down”. This way of doing and undoing as you please: Now there is a tour now I cancel it, Now I'm preparing a new album and now it won't see the light, Now I'm retiring from this world and now I feel like coming back….. And it seems that the musician is working on new projects..
‘BUNBURY AND VEGAS’, MUSIC THINGS, THE FILIN AND THE DESTINY
DIARY OF CADIZ / Things of destiny. A few years ago Nacho Vegas was sitting in the same garden where he now serves us when he received a call from Enrique Bunbury to participate in his Freak show.. “Of fucking mother” –he thought–. What I didn't know then, neither he nor the unusual Zaragoza native who at this moment sits next to him, is that both would end up in El Puerto de Santa María, in Paco Loco's studios, recording an album about which little is still known but which, in the judgment of what could be gauged throughout the afternoon, gives off very good vibes.
“In this process nothing has been natural, everything has happened in a truly strange way”, Bunbury warns, with more seriousness than joking, before recounting the different meetings that the musicians held in Gerona and Zaragoza to forge a large part of what will become “Vegas and Bunbury” -says Enrique- or “Bunbury and Vegas, the esdrújula is better in the first place” –as Nacho assures–.
“Right now we are in the moment of creation, we still haven't decided everything. This morning we woke up and we want it to be a double album. In a week we will see”, questions the Asturian, framed in an environment that is not unknown. “I have recorded my solo albums here with Paco. This place is a true refuge”, assures, between vines, lemon trees, and a little wind that begins to stretch, lulling the afternoon.
Fate threw its cards, But it is justice to ensure that musicians knew how to take advantage of the opportunity. “When you have been in music for some time, what unites you and what does not bind you to other colleagues. I feel closer to Enrique than other musicians from my very scene”, Vegas appreciates, at the time that the former hero: “Well, I don't tell you. It seems paradoxical but it is very difficult to talk to a musician. It is difficult to find someone who shares your vision to compose, Your musical tastes and your way of doing things. Sometimes everything is so ridiculous…”.
But they found themselves. Two strong musical personalities take a hand in hand - it can be the compact, that will go on sale after summer, contains eight or ten songs of each one - but there is no clash. “It is obvious that each one has a voice and our own musical character, But we do not start from such distant places and we both like what we do”, Add the deep and disconcerting voice singer look.
And it's true. “Rara opinion”, define Enrique. But maybe they are not rare, Maybe it's just a music, to live music not music. “Nobody gives my music”, judgment, incombustible, Bunbury. “It's a matter of knowing what you want”, Nacho Vegas accompanies him. Definitely, Honesty and courage have become rising values when it really is an artist's obligation. They are not rare.
“If there is something that is not prostituted in music is music itself. If there is a place where the white man never stepped on, That territory is music”, Freak Show and Bushido Creator tells. You can almost play the energy they give off when talking about music, of creation and, What is even better, of freedom. “Freedom does not give it to you, It is taken”. There is. “Many may think that it is easy for Enrique to say this for his long and consolidated career, But it is not so. The freedom to make the music you want is at your fingertips”, Signed by Nacho Vegas. You just have to review your career, de principio a fin, And there will be no other than to nod.
“No one is going to tell you if you deserve it or not (Freedom). Not even Whitney Houston”. “¿Whitney Houston?” –He asks with laughter Vegas, preceding the laughter that followed before the example of Bunbury– “Yes, why not? Couldn't she be the new Aretha Franklin?”, Add again.
Thus the afternoon takes place, between friends. When the filin is palpated, The connection between the interpreters. It will be a good album, double or non -double. Vegas and Bunbury agree on the essential, In the concept.
“I do songs because I contradict me when trying to explain the things that are not so simple. The songs live on contradictions. Es más, These are questions to answer, But when you do more doubts arise. That is why for me it is inevitable to compose”, Former Manta Ray reflects, while it joins, presto, Bunbury: “The songs are ways to show our certainty in the face of doubts of everyday life. They are the photograph of feeling”.
But time passes, By Nacho Vegas, By Enrique Bunbury and for all. “That's why he fucks so much when you see an interview that they did for a long time and you said things that you now see them totally different”, The Asturian artist laughs behind the sunglasses. “It seems that in my song I sentence about some subject, But that is not my purpose. I offer my vision of things but sometimes it is normal for the particular to become universal and vice versa”, report, meanwhile, The Zaragozano.
The disorder reigns at the table, Piedra's guest in the multiple conversations that Bunbury will have held, Vegas y Crazy in this almost month and a half recording. The disorder prevails on the rubber, But not in ideas. “Honesty with what is done is not a merit is an obligation, but not for everyone is like that. It can also happen that a sincere job is done but a record shit comes out”. Vegas does not walk with subtleties.
Thus they understand music, as a way of life if it is sincere, although they are knowing the transfer of honesty to “a background” When competing in front “to the show and entertainment”, They affirm.
Therefore, They still doubt what will happen once your new work is presented. “Right now we are putting the voices, It is very soon to decide the tour, We have not yet had time to talk about what we want to do”, Vegas points out, while adding, “But if it is done, It will be a beautiful tour”. “This album is special, Therefore deserves something special, It deserves a treatment of something unique. It will be very little and great”, apunta Bunbury.
The recording studio is a few steps from the garden. You have to get to work, And that seems a joy if it is done between colleagues and in the splendid environment offered by Paco Loco. What else can be asked if music comes from face, THE FILIN AND THE DESTINATION. “I am a tragic determinist convinced”, Nacho Vegas culminates with humor, And without the lack of philosophy.
Source: Diario de Cádiz