Two years ago this would have been the tour and 20th anniversary of the ‘Fuego’ album. Do not Pull. Keep it up?
David Muñoz: It’s one of the biggest hits of ‘Fuego’ now, and we’re also going to do quite a few songs throughout history and take back some songs we haven’t played in a long time. The spirit will be the same: party, sing, play, share and create a ritual there.
Jose Muñoz: On last year’s tour, we built a repertoire with reduced capacity and masks so people don’t start jumping. We didn’t touch ‘Paseo’ because it encourages cuddling. Now yes. A much wilder repertoire than last year. And we save some songs from the original demo before the first album.
Like which?
JM Better surprise, right?
We can say DM ‘Princess’. A song about the breakup of a very young 17-18 year old date. It’s a naive song. Seeing ourselves from the past makes us so funny. We’re not like that anymore…, but a bit, yes. It’s a rumba song, a ballad…
An open-air Estopa concert without masks and distance is a beautiful photograph of salvation. post pandemic.
DM is very special. I am very nervous. This time I imagine there is an emotional component, there is as much desire as we do. The message of these concerts is “I want to see you again”. No dear.
We don’t like competitions, we compete. It’s a stress. We would never go to Eurovision
They recorded ‘Camiseta de rokanrol’ with Fito and Fitipaldis. As it is?
DM Already when we made the song, we said “It affects Fito a lot” and we have devoted ourselves to collaborations with the pandemic. With Fito and Amaral in ‘Awakening’. And we saved another one with Beret. A song composed with him is 33%.
JM sent us half a song via ‘whatsapp’. “Finish yourself.”
DM It’s that easy. It’s called ‘Diablo’ and it will be the first ‘single’ from her next album. Bert is interesting. Composing amuses me. Very direct. And he raps really well. He has a certain style.
They had never composed songs with other writers.
DM First time and will be with Beret. And with ‘whatsapp’. Now another compositional collaboration with C. Tangana awaits.
C. Tangana asked us to collaborate on ‘Ingobernable’. We loved the song, but we weren’t for work. Out of anger. we should have been
C. Is it true that Tangana asked you to collaborate on ‘El madrileño’ and you couldn’t see it clearly?
DM on ‘Governable’, yes. We loved the song, but we weren’t for work. It was the worst time of the epidemic, my friend. We couldn’t see clearly. It pisses me off, huh? Because we should have. But look, it wasn’t our time.
JM There was a time we didn’t even get together.
DM But we sang with him in Sant Jordi and got rid of the thorn. He said to us, “Yes, I composed it for you assholes”.
There he said: “Half the album was written with Estopa in mind.”
DM Yes, yes, I did… Great. Because we came into existence out of nothing on the album. And album of the year for me.
JM Kiko Veneno’s song is a special set for Kiko and it’s the same as Calamaro’s, Ketama’s, Drexler’s… Each composer has their own special features.
How did you experience Tangana’s concert in Sant Jordi from the stage?
I was with my DM Headset and knew nothing. Then I saw videos of people clapping when we broke up and that’s it. They called me “the golden minute of the concert” with ‘Tu calorro’. I didn’t understand C. I was surprised that such a young audience of Tangana liked ‘Tu calorro’. This Tangana of the present, castizo, I love it more than before. He went to the rumba, which has always been a source of joy. And the people here carry it in their genes.
The rumba that always comes back.
JM It’s a cyclical thing.
DM reminded me of our first album where rumba wasn’t trendy and suddenly we were pretty successful there. We do rumba with other things, reverse it, and Tangana did the same in another way. Life is always better with Rumba. Like a contagious laugh.
Was the pandemic conducive to the creation of songs?
DM We have eight new songs. Jose has set up a studio in a room in his house and we are recording demos there quietly.
We started when the JM Zor quarantine ended, that is when we started seeing each other. The pandemic took our stress away.
Don’t let the world end now. This weekend is not going well for us
New album on the horizon?
JM We thought of a two-part project. First we want to release the demo with ‘Princesa’, ‘Míriam’, ‘Sentir Different’… We don’t want them to stay there on the internet. The idea is to record them without great production, with some respect for the demo audio, but it doesn’t sound bad. And then remove the new disk. It’s like a double album but separate.
DM His job will be to publish the old first and the new three months later.
Model for JM 2023 and another for 2024.
The pandemic lends itself to these ‘stopper’ songs about bad dreams. Has anyone been to that line?
DM Yes, yes, it’s like a dream… There is also someone who says: “The noise of this prison does not allow me to hear the dogs barking heartily”. full pandemic.
JM But it will be one of the few references to the pandemic.
What awaits you beyond this tour?
In DM 2023 we can continue with a little trip to Argentina, Chile, Uruguay… And now to Venezuela, where you can go again.
JM And let’s hope we have 50 years of peace. Carpe diem, more than ever.
DM Don’t let the world end. This weekend is not going well for us.