Hablando con Fon Román

After getting lost among electronic strings with Suso Size, your partner in mischief Trash of Dreams, The most daring boy in Pirates looked out into an empty school yard and found the pop bug showing its teeth at him. “Silence comfortable in a neglected garden” It is Fon Román's first album and is published on Subterfuge. We spoke to him right after his first concert “in every rule”.

Congratulations on the premiere. You played in Madrid a few days ago but, taking into account that it was an acoustic “between friends”, We can say that this was the first…
Yes, the worst has already happened (laughter). The first is the most difficult, and also the room, bufff, the most bitchy I could imagine… I guess you have noticed but the sound was bouncing all the time; the truth, could be a little more conditioned…

Yes, yes it was noticeable, oh well, It hasn't sounded so good either., so bad (or we have gone worse) How was your experience as a singer??
Mmm, GOOD, GOOD, I approve of myself, hehe. Good, oh really… GOOD, although now we have to take advantage, was and was, to improve. We are here to continue learning and improve mistakes.

And the reunion with the public? You already said it at the concert, we were few, but well agreed…
Yes, few, but with good energy, I noticed it in some faces, positive energy…

And with the songs learned. We were surprised by the age difference.… Before we were commenting a little on the possible effect “boomerang”, Pirates people to come see you, people who have reached “Los Ferreiro” and from them to Pirates and you, and your own harvest that comes from you to them…?
Yes, is it possible. There was everything, I have seen older people but also very young people… clear, yours would be those who come for yourself, but the other is also inevitable, It's like the windows that open on the Internet…
Apparently you are not going to make versions of “Pirates” in the live, not at least tonight…
Good… we were about to do one, but in the end we haven't done it, We'll save it for Madrid next week, We have a concert in the El Sol room… and on top of that a lot of friends from Coruña are coming. But in principle we wanted to stand out a little, separate things, I'm not saying we shouldn't do some, but not that it becomes something routine.

You came from a record company like Warner and now you are working with Subterfuge. How about the change?
Well very good, the truth. De momento, everything very good. I also wanted to start with something smaller., more familiar, where you really feel like one more… and also where they take you from the beginning and participate in your evolution. It works differently, In a multinational you know that if you don't work in two months you'll leave.

Good, returning to the concert and regardless of the rebound of the sound, I have been very surprised by all the richness that you have brought out of the themes.… The album sounds much more acoustic, more basic, and the truth is that it was curious; first because within Piratas you were always the one who experimented with sounds and also because after the evolution towards electronics in the last years of Piratas, you separate and both Iván's album and yours abandon all that and sound much more “basic”.
Yes, good, we were never electronic, although we did not close ourselves to anything and the sound was evolving. But if, it's true, I have always liked experimenting live much more, for example today, the endings of the songs because I suppose they were quite reminiscent of what we did with Pirates, clear, I'm not going to do this on the album because I can't spend ten minutes grating, but in the live I like it a lot… In addition to decorating it, it makes it faster.
Yes, the intensity is much higher, It's like giving a new dimension to the songs.
Yes, the das a plus, some even take another space… that's also the good thing about live, The complicity with the rest of the group is also very noticeable.. The battery, for example, only lasts a week., but it's full. He had been playing with the others for some time, with Suso's son, the benjamin, how clear, It's like family…

With Suso, In addition to the production of the album you have the Trash of dreams project. Is it a one-off job or are you going to continue with it??
No, we continue we continue. Now after the presentations of this album, which will be until December, We want to continue to see if we get more gigs with Trash…, and go little by little but keep doing things. For me it is a very important source. It is the most essential sound, purer… something that cannot feed you economically, clear, but it feeds you inside, which is the most important.

It is also a way to remove the thorn of experimentation., what we were talking about before… to do it also with freedom, because sometimes if you mix two styles you end up limiting them, due to incompatibility, by public…
Yes of course, It is essential to have a space where you can do things like that., without limiting yourself… and better separate it, this is pop, with influences or trends, whatever you want to call it, and the other is as I told you, the essential source.

Text extracted entirely from Supernovapop