Marking the distances with soloists and reggaeton, the four-member band during the Latin era, the Morat men break some plans in commercial music, but they have managed to make their romantic songs with pop dynamics and the occasional acoustic fiber (banjo, ukulele, violin). ), capture large audiences. “Morat’s strongest pillar is the way we sing choirs, sounds that create the effect of a bar or stadium choir”, features singer and guitarist Juan Pablo Isaza on the eve of his debut in Palau Sant Jordi this Friday.
The Colombians will preview some of the songs on the album they plan to release in November, ‘Si was yesterday out today’. Like ‘506’, the single released this Friday with their fellow countryman Juanes, five years after ‘Kisses at War’. “At Reggaeton, artists are always collaborating with each other, and that’s made the genre grow a lot because they support each other. Not so much in pop and rock. There is even a certain taboo about it,” says Isaza. The song refers to the apartment where an ex-girlfriend of the singer lives. “The average age of the band members is 27, and we’re old enough that time has passed since our first teen loves.”
analog charm
Also serving as a co-producer, Isaza, ‘If Yesterday Was Today’ will be their fourth album, released a little over a year after the previous one, ‘Where are we going?’ . The reference to the time you scrolled the title, Admiration for “many elements of the past, how things were done before”, point. “But to bring it to the present. For example, we recorded the album on analogue tape and it sounds fresh and bright, not outdated”.
Their highest reference is the Beatles (“the music we grew up with”), and they bet the bands knowing they’re going a little against the trend. “Now they’re all soloists and if you talk about a band, people would think of four guys dancing with a microphone, while we weren’t”, Isaac thinks. Well, Morat is not a ‘boy group’. “We are instrumentalists!” he emphasizes. But with their romantic songbooks, they got stronger in front of the female youth. “100% because love will always be a broad theme for many of the songs that will come out of there.”
petition to the president
At the same time, “it’s time to start changing the theme a little” and therefore the new batch will offer other types of text, as follows. ‘Kites always fly in August’, a theme that Morat longs for his country to leave its cycles of violence behind. They launched it on August 9, two days after Colombia’s new president, Gustavo Petro, took office. A dozen in his video social and environmental activists. Launching a petition for the new president, the singer-songwriter complains: “During the previous government, Colombia was one of the countries with the highest death toll of social leaders in the world”: “To protect the initiative of those who carry the future. on the backs of the country. country”.