2023-09-16 06:30:38
The pianist from Emporda publishes her new album, “Corsé”, which she will present at the Auditori de Girona on October 7 and in which she has a cast of 13 voices including Albert Pla, Sílvia Pérez Cruz and Salvador Sobral
Is “Corsé” a record about personal rebellion against the demands we impose on ourselves?
That we impose ourselves and that they impose themselves on us. It is a radical defense of imperfection as an engine of change. An imperfect being desires, so it is in motion, while perfection is inert, it cannot mutate. All of us have fallen victim to the mandates of perfection. This album tries to be a refuge from everything that is not perfect.
He graduated in classical piano sixteen years ago. Perhaps he already experienced the demands of perfection.
Of course, but I think of a more political key. The album talks about the violence that this concept entails: movement, aging, death… There are many sub-themes. Trying to find calm around these pressures we inflict on ourselves.
The speech is forceful, while his music has become more serene over the years.
Less frantic, perhaps, and less angry. I think I’m maturing, and that makes me calmer. Always moving from the wetness is very tiring. Music and art are my medicine. But I find myself at a point, I don’t know if it’s mystical or what, where I feel that the songs I make are not mine. I spend my whole life listening to everybody’s music, and what I do is what an algorithm does, mix everything I’ve heard, and a song comes out of it. Authorship is, I wouldn’t say overrated, but I do think that things are ours to stop being.
Here is a critique of the artistic ego. And a political reading.
It is there, yes. Maybe not so mystical then, huh? But yes, everything has a collective dimension. It’s like when you write, after you’ve read so much. I think through many people who have thought, and my thoughts are forged from other thoughts.
In this album he uses body organs and orthopedic objects as metaphors.
It has a lot of words related to violence: bullets, hammers, daggers, cannons… I use violent language even though it’s a calm record.
The word “violence” is repeated in several songs.
I haven’t detected most of the corsets I wear, and this is very violent. These corsets scare me more than the ones I know. The privilege of youth, for example. I am 37 years old and getting old is not easy for me. You get old and you lose things, but you gain many others! If we don’t learn to grow old, we don’t value what we’ve lived. If you take ten movies random you will see that 80% of the people who go out there are regulations, and not only that, they are beautiful. All the imputs that we receive have to do with it. Albert Pla, whom I admire very much, if he were a woman, he would never have had a space. Women can’t be wrong, think radically, sing in their own way… No one would like that.
In “Cotilla” Pla sings a theme, “Maldita la imagen”, which seems made for him.
He is one of the few who can sing to this, because he has age and experience. All the tracks on the album are made specifically for a singer’s profile.
It’s 13 songs and 13 voices, and it’s his 13th album
The most imperfect number that exists, perhaps.
He collaborates with singers of very diverse and original records, such as Leo Rizzi, who makes you think of an Antony.
Total, a little sharper, chewing the songs in this very different way. Maren also sings a bit like that. And Momi Maiga, with that voice that is pure magic. And Ferran Palau, who has an art to say the words. And Salvador Sobral, to whom I have changed the register in this so lame subject. And what can I say about Sílvia’s (Pérez Cruz) lullaby, with her innate ability to connect with emotion.
For several years, his work gained little repercussion, while now he accumulates distinctions.
This has changed yes, although recognitions always come for something and there are cases where they comply with quotas. I occupy a different place, where other people do not live. I play the classical piano. I’m wrong, but not too much. Transgressive, but polite. A lot of people don’t know what I do, but they know I’m a pianist. But everything is fine.
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