Access to housing, the lack of humanity in our society or the rise of the extreme right are among the concerns of Nacho Vegas. “Now it’s as if it was fashionable to be a facha, as a sign of rebellion, as if being a facha was what it was for us to be a punk or a rebel, that you liked non-commercial music”, highlights the artist. And in order to combat a discourse, which for the author is anti-feminist, racist and LGBTI-phobic, he vindicates the role of civil society and encourages it to return to the streets and collectivize itself to defend For example, public health.
“See how it is used as a throwing weapon, not only mental health, but also primary care or the death of our elderly in residences sold to vulture funds, you feel indignation and shame”, laments Nacho Vegas. Feelings that have crept into his new album. One of them is that of tenderness as a tool to fight against cynicism. “Cynicism is a very unbelieving, that begins and ends in oneself and tenderness is something that happens by recognizing the other person”, he highlights.
He has written the album in a small coastal town, a refuge from the sadness that confinement left him with. “It’s a kind of sadness in which you end up settling in and you end up living in it,” confesses Nacho Vegas. And from this experience 10 songs have emerged that speak of loneliness, their friends, their references and their roots: Asturian folklore.
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