copied and pasted version the full interview with Earl for FREEK! The album review at the end of this other post . SANTOS
RUBBER: BLESSED GIVE
a matter of many, one of the most pleasant surprises of the past Monkey Week. For those not familiar with the scene of Malaga, the Saints have been a genuine divine revelation. Its leader, Count, helps us to interpret the gospel.
1. For those who do not know the scene Malaga and suddenly we are struck by a piece of the group, it seems, is made up stories live there explicadnos where you go out and, especially, who is Earl. Well, it's a long story. The truth is that musicians are very concerned and we have long been urging the city's musical scene. I have had some bands in the lively historical Málaga, I have worked with many musicians half the world (The Who, Roxy Music) but I'm not someone who thinks too much in the past. Let's say my race is long, long, and includes bands such as Mosquito, House, Series B or Harry Octopus, among others.
other hand, we are all interesting projects. Both Alvaro Gastmans (bass) and Tristan Ulla, Israel Calvo (guitars) and Claudio Tamer (drums) have solo projects and collaborating with other musicians. This nourishes rubber Santos gives us a lot of vitality and inventiveness. Anyway, let's say we are a group of hyperactive musicians where you can find Argentine, Belgian and English. I compose the songs, but we are a close-knit band with the same interests.
2. That is, there is a lot swallowed and digested. In some places I've seen it defined as punk, maybe because you come from there.
Actually, musically I think we have very little punk. We are a pop band, but perhaps the most important legacy he left us is not punk music, but the attitude. I think there indeed that we are related. It is also true that we come from that scene. Punk marked us at the time (perhaps some more than others) and may continue to grow this seed within us. Say Santos rubber is a more traditional band on record, we are more pop and our live closer to the Rock `n` Roll of a lifetime.
3. In any case, there is an amazing facility for the construction of catchy tunes like "Life in a Blog" or "She's Vespino", to cite just two examples. I am among those who think "the powder, we can not be ...- punk song one without a good melody behind ...
As I mentioned before, I think that punk is just a philosophy, is more than a musical style. Actually many of the greats of punk that did nothing but pop songs played accelerated and more savvy. In fact, punk rock came to claim the virtues of pop, instrumental simplicity, which lasted three little minutes of songs and musicians to put aside the straw mental and dedicate themselves to playing for the public and not for themselves. These are some of the secrets of pop. And then there are the songs ... But that's the most complicated.
4. To me your album sounds very English: Mom, Nacha Pop, Los Secretos ... Very of that wave. It was a long time since I heard so many songs that were so fresh and so truly pop. From time groups were called "assemblies", which my mother still does. Do you feel particularly identified with any of these names or another not been said? What current one which you feel in the same league?
Honestly, I am very surprised to find those references (and I'm flattered), because we thought we sounded closer to the Beach Boys, Flaming Lips and Air, but it's great to discover that each listener has a different interpretation of sound songs. In fact, when one frees his creature, each makes his own and that is one of the best things about the songs, which no longer belong to their creators and all we can do ours, because they really are ours. I think all these bands you mention have a fundamental thing in common with us: The taste for well-made tunes, in the traditional way, and I am proud that we compare with bands how are you, because although we think otherwise, are bands that we grew and we learned a lot.
5. Live, however, you sound like a lot more powerful than on disk. More rockers. So much that I remember with forgiveness, The Troglodytes! Forceful guitars wrapped round songs.
Hahahaha! Well, you need not apologize for that. I'm friends with Sabino Méndez and is a great composer. I do not want to speak ill of anyone, but I think Loquillo and I do not seem in any way. Well, maybe where they exceed six feet and we are human, but nothing more. Another thing is the Troglodytes, which was a piece of R'n `R band, and if that's what you mean by your comparison, I think it's a great compliment. As I said before, we like the shows are hot and fun. Anyway, I guess that is the Rock, lol.
6. Why the title "Songs fog "for a disc so bright?
I know it's a contradiction, but I like playing against and not taking things for granted. It may be somewhat misleading, but I think there is an inner life in the songs, a life far more dark than it seems intuit to hear them. At least when I write them try to have several readings, I think the secret of the temporality of music is that under a simple facade you can find different layers, so that each listener is a bit different than the previous. Some also thought that dawn misty morning and at noon the fog lifts and the sun shines, is as great pop songs, ephemeral and beautiful, like a fog.
7. Sometimes your licks remind me of someone so uncomfortable to claim as Freddie Mercury. I happens on the bridge of "In the park," for example. Are you aware? Is it an ironic game? Sometimes, in the best sense, your voice reminds me of those used in off time the Muppets are a rock band.
It is certainly uncomfortable, but I think Queen did nothing wrong, have great songs, although it is true that they have many laughable. There is much irony in this. I am Ray Davies school on the issue of using sarcasm and irony in the songs. Humor is healthy I am very fond of music type Rocky Horror Picture Show and Phantom of the Paradise and I love the excess of Glam Rock, or the drama of Raphael or Jacques Brel. I guess all these things put them in a blender and see something like the way I play. I also love Serge Gainsbourg, but my favorite singer is Scott Walker.
8. With so much past, or call it maturity, how you see a group so sanote and honest as yours in a scene, The Independent, which is often dominated by a certain attitude to design? Do you feel like a sort of missing link? Where do you situate, although it is known that nobody likes labels?
We are a rock band and little else. I think we are quite modern band, although it is true that we are a bit in no man's land, or rather with one foot in each land. I do not see us as different, I think that deep down we are about indies with a sense of spectacle, adore the show.
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