Beer, gastronomy and music. This is the proposal of the Estrella Galicia Museum for Friday, April 29, when it will play in this area. marlango. In the middle of the composing process, Leonor Watling and Alejandro Pelayo enjoy each recital like never before.
And concert in a beer museum. Something new for the band?
Well yes. We played at a winery, which was very nice. But not a beer place. It was my turn because Alejandro with the wine and I with the beer.
They say every recital is a joy, a challenge and a victory. Have you ever doubted?
They are that and many other things, but they always are.
revenues A Coruna by tour if you ask around. How?
We’re in the writing process now, but we wanted to keep playing. We really like what happens when we play without a very established layout, without a very closed premise, because the next thing will be very closed. So now we’re having a lot of fun. We go with Toni Molina on trombone, piano and voice and play new songs and versions.
Was it difficult to reach the composition process you mentioned?
Yes Alejandro is always inspired, he made a great piano album but it was harder for me to find desire and find something to tell. Now we are finally working together again.
happened Pandemic missing it?
Yes, it was in my case. What could he talk about, he didn’t want to talk. I couldn’t find a way to talk about anything else. I know many people who have been very creative in the pandemic, and others like me are stuck and dry. Like a deer in front of a car. It also depends on the type of music you make. Alejandro was able to work with an instrument in his hand. He composes every day. It is very curious. Instead, I spoke to other colleagues and there was a terrible silence inside us.
How do you open the lock?
I would like to know. Look, I bought the books. I think it’s about desire and belief, believing you have something to say and wanting to say it. That depends on a lot of things, but I couldn’t tell you which way to go.
However, this confinement was born raw.
Yes, Alejandro was in Cantabria and I was in Madrid. There were no concerts and rehearsals. I think our friendship is conveyed through music and we missed each other. We said, “Let’s do something”. We did that song and also and againwith Guille Galván and if you ask around.
They gave a concert back to normal Madrid they announced a vinyl of them. Do you still love the physical format?
I admit I have a very retro piece. I need the object. I need records and books. It’s important to me and to Alejandro too, so it seems essential to us at Marlango.
of the book, discos, movies…healing agents?
if for me. It’s very basic. Sometimes I use them to escape from myself completely, to understand myself, to understand things I had never thought of. Without it we are nothing.
What will the new Marlango album be like?
I have no idea yet. It’s very nice, it’s nice to have something to tell after all these years and wonder how we’re going to tell it.
You have been working with Alejandro since the early 2000s. What is the key to them working so well together?
I think he is very lucky. We work in the creative and endure in the vital. When you’re on tour and you’re in the studio, it’s a feast. You can work very well creatively and can’t stand the other person, or vice versa, you get along super well and have nothing to say creatively. First of all, this is a musical relationship.
They announced a concert that sounded like goodbye before the pandemic. Have you ever seen the end of the band close?
It’s all about creation. There’s not much point in continuing if you don’t have a new song. The concert in the Spanish theater was canceled due to the pandemic and we relaunched composing and Marlango as a creative machine.
Can it be said that this break gave impetus to Marlango?
Yes, but the events were so frightening and terrifying that it is hard for me to say that there were good sides, but they were. I really like what Paco León said, people don’t stop in wars or epidemics. People don’t just survive, they fall in love and create. Rodrigo Cortés has a good movie about a game they made from the Warsaw ghetto. To survive is also not just to eat and drink, but to create and fall in love. There will always be things that come out of it.
I am working with Paco Leon in one of his latest audiovisual projects. Have you noticed the impact of the epidemic on this sector?
Yes, but it didn’t hurt as much as the music. Cinema suffered at the level of production and investment, but continued to withdraw. Also, fiction is being consumed like never before. Movie theaters suffer, but not like concert halls. I’m sure dance and performing arts suffered too, but I know music. The effort has been titanic. Speaking of concert halls, we must not forget that there are two or ten people on the stage, but below are 30 more, without which the others do not work. It is a very comprehensive system.