They are called quartet of us because, in addition to the obvious numerical reasons, they considered that we (of us) would do justice to a band whose music was not going to transcend beyond themselves and a very small circle. Now they can say they were wrong. Roberto Musso, Álvin Pintos, Gustavo Antuña and Santiago Marrero carry rock in their veins, although, perhaps, if their style is defined, it is not to enter any. The Uruguayans will jump the puddle and act for the first time in the Vive Latino in Zaragoza (September 5 and 6) After having done it in Mexico a few years ago.
“We are very excited because the relationship we have with the festival is very pretty. It was the first festival we did in Mexico City, an incredible experience and we are super happy that they have also had us to participate in this edition there,” explains Roberto Musso, leader of the band, in a telephone interview with this media. Considered as one of the most important rock bands in Uruguay, they began their trajectory in some distant 80s without imagining what would come later.
“Many years ago we are playing but really always on the rise, we never thought that it was going to transcend out of here because it is a small country with a small population. The music market is also very difficult for artists of any kind to be able to live properly from music. Today we travel Latin America several times per year, we come from making a Movistar Aren so much.
And it is that in that concert that Musso remembered at the Movistar Arena in Santiago de Chile, a mostly youthful audience filled everything in which they cataloged more as “group therapy” than as a show. “All our concerts are really like that because we love the energy and power that has the entire quartet. That youth guarantee in the public that sings to us from the first stanzas to the last is also great. Our letters also have a very beautiful psychological and philosophical background and that is how that species of collective catharsis between the public and we, with a very nice bond,” Roberto says.
“In our concerts we live a kind of collective catharsis between the public and we with a very nice audience”
Before being in the Vive Latino In Zaragoza on September 5, the quartet of us will be in Berlin and then in Valencia, A Coruña or Malaga inside the tour “doors”. When asked if the public changes to this and on the other side of the puddle, Roberto Musso’s answer is obvious.
“Yes, there are differences, starting with the language. By having such a strong and distinctive concept of letters, with words games, the rhymes with the Spanish language that I love, everything that is Spanish -speaking literary referents to a person who does not speak Spanish is lost a lot because it does not capture 100% of the concept. When we go to places outside the Spanish language, in the US Things. Although it is true that music transcends the language, but something is lost, it is clear. “
They are defined as “a rare rock band” that has no complex to “borrow from another genre to artistically enhance a song”, although they also extol all that philosophical concept of lyrics. “Especially the last albums are a bit of a tour of how we see ourselves as a society, like humanity. All that retrospective part of each as a human being. The album before” doors “,” sheet 11 “, had a whole concept based on the Rorschach test that is that test that they did before when you were going to look for work and tagged you with a certain characteristic. There is a whole symbology with the theme of decisions and philosophical Surrealist, which we love, “they culminate.
