A quarter of a century after El Último de la Fila announced their dissolution, Manolo García and Quimi Portet have returned to the studio to re-record 24 songs from their extensive repertoire, adding new arrangements and instrumentation, a work that will be released on January 1. December under the title of Pyramid Disruption. Hits such as Insurrección, Querida Milagros, Planes platas or Como un burro tied en la puerta del baile will be played again with the addition of 25 years of separate career of one of the most successful duos on the Spanish scene. Manolo and Quimi have been in charge of playing all the instruments, with notable variations in some of the songs, either in the arrangements or in the instrumentation, according to the note published by the production company, Warner Music.
The mess they are now proposing will go on sale in a double format of 3 LPs plus 2 CDs, or two solo compact discs, and will include a card signed by the two musicians in those copies that are reserved starting today, Friday, 22 September.
The couple published their first album in 1985 as El Último de la Fila, When poverty enters through the door, love jumps through the window, culminating a collaboration that existed before under the name Los Burros. Throughout their 13-year career they released seven albums in total, the last in 1995, The Rebellion of the Frogmen. During this period they published songs such as When the sea has you, El loco de la calle or Far from the laws of men that they now recover in this new work. The band broke up amicably in 1998, but even then García and Portet said that "the decision did not represent an end" to their collaboration.
Currently Manolo García is engaged in a theater tour where he presents his latest two works, Mi vida en Marte and Desatinos deplumados. The Poblenou musician suffered heart problems last year that forced him to cancel performances such as those he was supposed to give at the Palau Sant Jordi in Barcelona and the Wizink Center in Madrid. For his part, Quimi Portet published the album Si plou, ho farem al pavelló in 2022, the eleventh of his solo career. Next October 6 he will perform at the Teatro de l'Atlàntida in Vic, an evening that will celebrate his 25 years away from El Último de la fila weeks before the studio reunites him with Manolo García.
