There was a time when hers seemed like a joke, but the truth is that Taburete is already on her fifth album and, according to her, is filling the spaces where old prejudices have been shattered. “People are looking for a lot of excuses to talk about our success, but after all, there is nothing but songs that are very popular and concerts where everyone has a good time”, Antón Carreño, the guitarist-singer of the band Madrid, who has just released ‘Matadero 5’, discusses this.
An album that was released digitally in November and is currently released in physical format via an eccentric circuit, 60 butchers, delicatessen and poultry shops from all over Spain to “support local trade”. On the cover, the plastic-wrapped faces of Carreño and singer Willy Bárcenas and in the exercise “parody of the musical product” look “porous” like a “pack” of fillet chicken breasts.
post-traumatic
The title of the album conveys another message: ‘Slaughterhouse 5’ by Kurt Vonnegut, World War II. continuously from the past to the future.” Bárcenas sees a parallel here with his musical career. “Because we were accused of many things and they didn’t want us to live in the present, they constantly reminded ourselves of the past.”
They emphasize that they already have nine years of experience and are lazy in answering questions about their family lineage. You know, we’re talking about Luis Bárcenas (Willy’s father), former chief financial officer of PP, and Gerardo Díaz Ferrán (Antón’s grandfather), former CEO of CEOE. they both have prison sections on their resumes. They admitted that they were “saved thanks to music” When they remember the origins of the Stool. “We had nothing. I didn’t even have a bank account in Spain. It was like the plague, even while looking for a job”, About Willy Bárcenas. “But the music played and suddenly the bank door opened. So they accepted me.”
And that didn’t make you embrace the anti-capitalist left? “Politics is making me more and more lazy. No party represents me”, sighs the Taburete singer. “Everything is politicized and ridiculous. Sabina comes out and says she’s getting less and less to the left, and people are already saying ‘Sabina is shit’. But are you sick in your head or what? Social networks, is this trouble? “Adult people on Twitter, politicians are childish: emoticons, zascas… OK among 20-year-olds, but among adults? They look stupid.”
create sadness
The stool, which is pulled from head to toe for a style of music between Kaçmak and tarambana, is a place where “even songs performed in sad moments are composed in a way that doesn’t seem so sad”. The pop repertoire is always open to attacks on Latin music. “There is no other band that makes you ranchera, cumbia and bolero in a concert”, Notes to Antón Carreño. And with that distribution, where is the personality of the group? “You know in the twists and chorus that this is a Stool song. Noticeable”.
At ‘Matadero 5’ there is room for a famous guest to cross between ranchera and cante jondo, embodied in ‘Nostalgia’. Jose Merce, “She shatters her voice like Chavela Vargas”. And with flamenco compadreo Miguel Campello “Camarón”, the elbicho in ‘Penúltimo beso’, where their voices intersect with the voices of others, gang song “a little estopero” Hungarian and Omar Montes. This is a piece that affects his appreciation for music. “This saved us from a very bad moment.”
Times are far away: Stool lives in prosperity and faces a tour that will take him to Mexico and five other Latin American countries in the fall. “For all the people who don’t believe us, here we are. The stool is no longer a fashion, but an established group, ”she said.