“And now that you’re in your quiet corner
Hoping it will be your hug, your shelter.”
August 2016, ‘Hundred Zero’ is the song with which Supersubmarine He closed his performance at dawn at a festival in Cullera. Hours later the silence would come, the blow, the accident that would change everything. It occurred at kilometer 168 of the N-322 highway. The gray Seat Alhambra in which the group was traveling collided with a white Mercedes Sprinter in a front-to-side collision. The group’s vehicle ended up crashing on the side of the ditch.
The four friends from Baeza came out alive of a miracle. José, Pope, Jaime and Juanca They were admitted to the hospital with serious injuries and breaks in their body. José (the singer and songwriter), better known as ‘Chino’, suffered the most severe injuries on impact. After numerous surgical interventions and receiving a medical discharge, the group focused on their recovery process. A path of healing (of what is seen and what is not) in which they continue working.
Now, eight years later, Supersubmarina breaks its silence in the book ‘Something that serves as light’, by Fernando Navarro. A portrait of friendship and life, a hard book that does not romanticize history or its consequences (physical and emotional), but necessary to accompany them in their present.
“The spark that started it all”
His reunion with the public, who did not return to the stage, also comes with ‘La Maqueta’, the demo that opened the doors of Sony at only 20 years old. “They made their dream come true and the flame of Supersubmarine is still alive“explains Jordi Tello, artistic director of the record company. “This demo was the starting signal for a group that fulfilled its dream,” he adds.
For José it will be the first launch from a group album. The first time he will remember. ‘Chino’ is the only one who can’t remember anything of the tragedy nor of the eight years prior to the accident. Your memory is a black hole, the composer of Supersubmarina does not remember what it was like to get on stage. He acknowledges that they have been “very hard” years of recovery and rehabilitation from the brain damage he suffered. But, What was it like to rediscover the group’s songs? What did you think of the lyrics when you first discovered them? “I liked some more than others… (smiles) I am very proud of my work. It is very good, although there are several that I have not heard yet,” she explains in her talk with laSexta.
‘La Maqueta’, which goes on sale this April 12, is made up of a selection of songs that later made up their album ‘Electroviral’. There are also his first EPs, ‘Hundred Zero’ (which would be his last song on stage) and ‘Supersubmarine’, the song that gave the group its name. And before ‘La Maqueta’, (because we all have a beginning), Baeza’s friends were not four but five and they called themselves ‘Inflamables’.
“It is the essence, the basis of what we were before doing anything. We haven’t changed much, but that was us when we were 20 years old,” says Jaime (guitarist of the group). “It will be clear that we were starting to play,” José adds jokingly.
Thus, this reissue reconciles the group with what they were, with their legacy. And it is that Pope (bassist)For example, It took years to listen to the group’s songs again. “It hurt me to listen to us, I left the pubs when one of our songs came on,” she confesses. Pope currently works as a photographer and he hasn’t played bass in years. In fact, he gave the group’s first amplifier (which was his) a long time ago to Andrés, José’s nephew. “He wants to use it for a musical project that he wants to undertake. Let’s hope that it means the same to him as it has meant to us. He has the talisman.”
“And I will lower a star tonight (…) and we will dance again”
‘La Maqueta’ arrives with surprise; and it is that includes the unreleased ‘Bichobola’, a song that has been performed on multiple occasions by the band from Jaén and that has been classified as one of the ‘fan favorites’. “Listening to the demo will take you to the origins of the group, to the first concerts in halls, to the first pink t-shirts. For the people who have followed us since the beginning It will also be a moment of nostalgia. 20 years have passed and many followers are already fathers and mothers, it will take them to another time, surely then they were loose cannons like us,” says Jaime.
“We want to be well and do things together”
Supersubmarina is clear: “Now it’s time to reinvent yourself, always keeping music in mind. life is change and it can lead us to good things.” For them and for those who love them, this “is not the end of anything,” because music has always been there.
However, they are aware of the expectations, the speculations, the the eternal doubt. “The future is to continue recovering and see if we can burn a disc. That’s it,” he explains. José, always optimistic, to laSexta. “We are going to continue contributing things outside of what is the development of a normal band (concerts, album releases and so on). The objective is to row and give people what they expect. We want to continue moving forward and contribute things to the music scene . We want to be well, without more pretensions“Adds Juanca (drums of the group) during the talk.
Everything else is present. Now, the four of “their usual Baeza” have to celebrate life.
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Source: Lasexta
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