Between strobe lights and astronaut glasses, La Casa Azul has been filling the summers with rhythm for more than 20 years with hits like that Revolución sexual that made them known in 2007. After releasing five albums and making thousands of people dance , the band led by Guille Milkyway continues its journey on July 28 at the Idilic festival (this year at the Guíxols Arena, 00:10 a.m.), while preparing its next album with songs like Prometo no olvidar or No hay futuro.
How are the performances going this summer?
Very well, at the end of last year we had the doubt whether to play or stop for a bit, what we decided was to try to play in places where we had not played, and it went well for us. After so many years, now as a group we are superb live, with a compact band and a staging as I had always wanted.
You are doing a lot of festivals.
The debate about the festival bubble is a bit misleading, a lot of popular festivals have been re-directed towards what a festival is, it has changed form and allowed for a type of programming that can mobilize people from the surrounding area, something that previously with popular festivals might not happen.
Your music is perfect for summers.
Our shows have an important emotional charge because it is part of the DNA of the group, everything has to be focused so that the emotional intensity of the show can explode at the end, let it be a little trip. Each in their own way must propose a journey, in our case with a fantasy component and an emotional charge that at times must be high for it to work, and which at the same time allows someone to simply be listening.
You've created a very personal brand of music making.
The only possible path to artistic discourse, whether greater or lesser, is to stay true to yourself. Then you can work to reach more people with your approach, your way of feeling, but if you don't do it that way, what is left for you in the end? You don't have much left.
Your sound has influences from the seventies.
If you analyze the evolution of popular song, contemporary in general, there is a common thread which is melodic music, this romantic element, so to speak. And disco music also does this, during the bulk of the evolution of disco from the beginning of the 1970s until the end there is this drive to convert the song and give it this rhythmic part that came from another side. In all club culture this is a continuous back and forth path, there is always a disruptive countercultural element that brings all the rhythmic part, but at the end the song enters again, the most lyrical speech, which is what a I'm interested, it's how I want to be, the key to my life in general and my artistic life. I hate this kind of categorical pronouncements about what is right or wrong, good or bad music, I will never get into that.
