Although they are barely 30 years old, the Cala Vento duo already manages numbers of veterans with more than 400 concerts behind them, their own recording studio, the Montgrí label and a discography that on April 21 will be increased with their fourth album, Casa Linda: songs that invite us to reflect on the contradictions of today's society that the couple from Empordà envelops in their clean, direct and guitar sound.
It had been four years since Aleix Turon and Joan Delgado, guitar and drums, had not released an album. During the pandemic, they dedicated themselves to building their own recording studio in Flaçà, where, after the worst of the covid, the voices for the songs by Casa Linda were recorded, a title linked to "the need to find a place in this crazy world where you can be calm and well with your things”, says Joan, linking the name of the album to “the need to find a place in this crazy world where you can be calm and well with your things”. At the same time, the name of the album contains a critique of the difficulties young people have in accessing housing due to speculation. “People our age find it difficult to get a house in the towns of the Empordà”, laments Joan, pointing to second homes as responsible for the increase in prices.
Casa Linda is also a reflection on the importance of supporting each other. “With the previous album we wanted to change the world, it questioned things in society that we didn't like”, he explains in reference to Balanceo. "But you see that nothing will change, and it's a bit frustrating." The solution is to become aware that "there are many people who are like us, with this feeling", and make music to unite.
Against this crazy world, in 23 weeks they raise the possibility of disappearing in a town in Aragon. “It is a community that we have crossed a lot and depending on which road you take you pass through deserted towns. We wonder what is being done there", Aleix explains, suggesting that "perhaps the solution to many problems is to return to these towns that we have abandoned". An idea that Joan links to the tendency of townspeople to go to the city, "if you don't do it you feel bad, a failure who has stayed in the town", a feeling that over time they have discovered to be wrong , because "you can do whatever you want from the town, it is a place where I am better than in the city," he explains, recalling the facilities for teleworking that exist today.
The couple's ability to work is not lacking: they have consolidated their own label, Montgrí, with which, in addition to their last two albums, they have released songs by Lagartija Nick, Biznaga and Yawners. "We like do it yourself, a recurring lifestyle in the posthardcore scene of the 90s in the US, where many groups self-published."
With the album on the takeoff track, the band is already thinking about concerts and festivals, such as Vive Latino in Mexico, to which they returned this past March, the starting point of a season that has taken them these days through the San San de Benicassim to continue with the Warm Up, the Maig, the Tomavistas and in July the Cruïlla. "It's a festival that loves us very much", Joan points out, "it's the third time we've played, and it will be the first show in Barcelona with our new show", a live performance that highlights the impact it causes on the public more young to see them create the music on stage. “They are used to something more electronic and they are amazed by a guitar and drums concert”, explains Joan, while Aleix recalls that “our way of interpreting the songs is not very academic, but we put a lot of passion into it and the audience appreciates it”.
