“This is a trip with friends,” said Simón Vargas at one of the concerts offered by the Morat group in Guayaquil (they had two performances), at the Voltaire Paladines Polo Coliseum. They were the first, in the Main Port, to give way to face-to-face shows. The affection of his followers was felt in the coliseum: full seats, total euphoria, pleased artists and, most importantly, job reactivation for many workers who eagerly awaited this return to the scene.
Martín and Simón Vargas, Juan Pablo Isaza and Juan Pablo Villamil (Villa), members of the Colombian pop band that is currently touring Latin America with their tour Where we go?arrive at 2022 with Lost call, first cut of his fourth album, a project with a renewed image and a musical evolution enriched by his artistic maturity.
Lost call It is composed by the band itself in the company of Mauricio Rengifo and Andrés Torres, who together with Juan Pablo Isaza are in charge of the production.
With more than twelve million followers on their social networks, this group, which began its activity in 2011, are not only musicians singing to the audience: they are four friends – at this stage, already a family – who live day by day a dream, one that they share with their followers, who wear shirts with their faces, use their photos as screen images on their cell phones, design banners to take to their concerts and get so emotional that they cry when they see them live. After a pandemic that took them away from physical stages, seeing this new generation of artists live shows us that Morat is indeed #more than music.
Before their performance in Guayaquil, this newspaper spoke with the quartet.
Ten years together, four albums and several sold out. After all this journey, how do you live each presentation on stage while the public sings each of the songs that you compose to the letter?
Martin: I think it’s very exciting, and I think that in particular today and these first dates have a special feeling on top, and that is the fact of playing again in Latin America after so long. And, as we mentioned before the interview, that we are the first concert that is being held here after so long for us is a brutal feeling. Since the first time we came to Ecuador and we felt the public’s reception and affection, it is the same from us, and the feeling is very strong. That people want to sing our songs, which at some point we began to write… And happy and with a lot of energy to give it all in these concerts.
Lost call It is his most recent premiere and the first preview of his fourth album. At what point did you decide that they should renew their proposal and image?
Town: I think it was a conscious decision, and in part I think it was because of the previous album, which left us with the question “where are we going?”; and a little also because of the pandemic and others. I think there was a lot of time for reflection and we all agreed that we wanted to do something different. We wanted to somehow show people that we had changed and that we still had many things to show, and rescuing much of what we consider to be the most essential values of us as a band, that we play instruments, that we want to rescue things from music. as they were done before. And all these things influenced a lot in the most creative decisions of the album, especially in the matter of how we recorded it. And the same thing happened in the aesthetic issue; So, we also wanted our philosophy to be seen on the album covers, in the outfitsin the clothes we wear, in everything.
In this album they wanted to mark two important characteristics: timelessness and the classic. Why was it so vital to you?
Simon: These values for us are very important, because in one way or another they give a lot of strength to the idea of the band, you know? Or, at least, we see it as an exercise to recover certain characteristics that the classic bands that we have been inspired by all our lives had, and that feeling that this is their music. In the end, we want to rescue them to try to, let’s say, bring back a little that validity and strength of the bands that we feel there are less and less. They are more and more soloists, there are more and more duets; but bands of people, playing instruments live or on stage, seem to be a dying breed. And frankly, it makes us very sad, because we believe that the best live shows in music are bands. So we want to rescue it and show it to people, and hopefully inspire musicians to have bands.
And speaking of the classic, is that why they have returned to analog?
Isaac: Yes, recording our album in analog was an experiment that we had pending for a long time; we wanted to experience it to see what it was like.
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What did it feel like?
isaza: What he contributed the most to our music on this fourth album, as the tape is limited, is that one has to commit more quickly to the ideas. I think the same thing happens to people who make digital video compared to how they did it before, and that is that one cannot repeat a take a thousand and a thousand times, because resources are limited and, well, space is frankly limited. ; and since you have a limited amount of tape, if you record a guitar and you don’t like it, that’s what it was. There are things that are repeated if you play, but you adapt much more easily to what you are doing and something is captured that is not necessarily perfect, but it is what happened and that has a lot of musical magic.
How was the video clip conceived? Lost call?
Isaac: We went to Los Angeles a year ago with more than 40 songs composed, with the purpose of choosing the ones that we liked the most or the ones that we believed represented us the most, and recording them. Whenever we do this exercise we write one, two or three more songs as a requirement to bring the freshest ideas, because many of these songs that I mention are songs that have been around for three or four years, and we always put them to compete with the freshest ideas.
Lost call It was one of the songs that came out of being in the studio.
How do you decide which song wins or which should go on the brand new album?
Isaac: Democracy.
Town: The good thing about democracy is that the same person does not always win.
Who would you never allow to miss the call?
Simon: I think it depends on who, when, how and where. The song puts the missed call in a very specific context, and it’s right when you’ve just finished, when you feel like doing it all wrong, when you seem to be on your way to making things more aggressive and tense, and probably a little toxic. Let’s say that we don’t intend to defend doing it with the song, but let’s say that we defend feeling it, right? And as we validate the fact that we have all been there, at the moment in which we would like to force the person to remember you even though he has already said no, and you want to call to be present. I think that, at that moment, those missed calls hopefully are missed, hopefully you won’t be able to talk to the person who said no.
You are not only united by music, but by a friendship of years. Have you ever thought about what your separate path would be like in this career?
Town: No, the truth is that the only thing that probably happened to us is that we were on a very tight tour rhythm right when the pandemic started, and we never considered breaking up or anything like that. But we did ever think about slowing down a bit, because it had been a very heavy rhythm, and the truth is that we know that we want to be together as long as we can. (AND)
Source: Eluniverso
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