Pez Mago presents his new album “Cuerpo de ventana” at Sala Euterpe. Showcasing his usual complicity with the public with acoustic rhythms and “folkies”, and accompanied only by his guitar, he will also review the most outstanding tracks from his previous albums. Necessary.
This new album by Pez Mago (Lucas Álvarez de Toledo’s alter ego) is called “Cuerpo de ventana”. It is a work produced by Jairo Zavala (Depedro) and accompanied by Fetén Fetén. It brings together ten new songs that the author claims can be seen through certain influences (like Iberian folk or Anglo-Saxon) as if through glass. It also includes two Spanish adaptations of themes by Leonard Cohen and Billy Joel, respectively, in an attempt at poetic translation.
In the album, which was recorded remotely during the 2021 curfews, Pez Mago recorded the guitars and vocals at home and sent them to Jairo, who, after drawing instrumental melodies for himself, sent them electronically to the Fetén Fetén duo and they sang them with all kinds of folklore. instruments such as rattle, whistle, spoon, banjoin, anise bottle, pan, water boiler, hoof, pepper can, tambourine, accordion and violin. With this, the author took a step back to let go of other rhythms (ajechao, waltz…) and other sounds that often diverge even further from the author’s song and also allow it to be recommended musically by Jairo. The album has a song sung as a duet with Mäbu, the heartbreak waltz or the humorous heartbreak “Don’t tell me I love you again.”
Pez Mago, who spent his childhood in London in the seventies, also has a certain obsession with Anglo-Saxon writers such as Leonard Cohen, Bob Dylan, Billy Joel, David Bowie or Cat Stevens. An English-to-Spanish translator, translator and song adaptor, Pez Mago decided to translate these two songs by Leonard Cohen and Billy Joel with all their poetic voices, while sticking to the original lyrics more closely. includes both.
“Cuerpo de ventana” is Pez Mago’s eleventh album. In the last two decades, he has performed solo in five continents, mainly Argentina, Colombia, Mexico, Chile, Uruguay, Costa Rica, Nicaragua, Venezuela, Peru, Brazil and Panama. He was also a part of the instrumentalist musician the Depedro. The group that he performed together for five years (2010-2015) in Europe, United States, China, South Korea, Australia and New Zealand. Jairo and Lucas have known each other since 1991 and formed their first group together called “Zolo Zeppelin” which is a tribute to Led Zeppelin and has never stopped collaborating on different individual projects since then.
During Pez Mago’s twenty-year tour of small cafes, alternative theaters and terraces, the author gave more than 1,500 concerts and combined his live musician side with equally important ones like the author. His songs (lyrics and music) were performed by a wide variety of artists, many of whom were far from Pez Mago’s musical style: Depedro and Leiva recorded “Noche Oscura”, Malú y Melendi “Amigo”, Sergio Dalma “Con lamouth forward”, Raphael “What does that have to do with it”, Clara Montes “Luna” etc…