2024-07-26 10:33:01
That Galician crooner with the innocent voice that provides the soundtrack to many passions has turned to positivist philosophy. Your most visited words today are fun, care, abundance and yes, still love, but universal love. It will be because of how well life is going and going for him. His new album, ‘Trinchera pop’, is a traditional composition of piano and guitar chords starting from the sound of “electronic toys”, it is also an unlikely mix of influences that come from Aretha Franklin to Antón García Abril, Alaska o Sadepassed by his great references: Morrissey and Josele Santiago (Los Enemigos).
Odyssey of Ivan Ferreiro (Vigo, August 1970) with tribute to ‘Man and the Earth’ (original soundtrack and audio included) by the avant la lettre philosopher Félix Rodríguez de la Fuente, thank goodness he describes our carefree age. Don’t be afraid of his acolytes, his voice is the same and indifferent: “I can’t (or I don’t want to) give him a facelift.” Read and listen, or vice versa.
What is a pop trench?
Shelter. Anything that makes you feel good and enjoy life and art is a pop trench; a book, a movie, a picture…
And is it healing to stay there?
As long as it is combined with a healthy and enjoyable lifestyle. Living only in movies or songs, as an escape from reality, can confuse you. When I’m not feeling well, I run away and stay in the trenches, but it’s better to take what surrounds me in and find balance there.
“Life happens when you’re on the wire: the rest is waiting,” Bob Fosse said and he did it. Do you feel good up there, forever tightrope walker?
No, you can’t be there all the time, you run away: you have to let yourself fall. Fosse is running away from the many problems he has, with drugs and alcohol, with his family, with his daughter… to be well on the wire you have to know how to stand, and be for excitement even after being bored. If you don’t come down, the wire can turn into paranoia: it’s happened to me.
Why does love take a back seat, now that you are newly married?
Romantic love has taken a back seat in my songs, but not in my life. Also, love has many forms, and since my love life with my partner (reporter Noa García) is too amazing, I don’t need to write more about it. I will never give up love, I enjoy my wife very much. Anyway, it’s a love album.
On the wire he sings of heartbreak, which, wouldn’t it be a B side?
He spoke of a small time in life, when he saw everything black. But I also believe that to know how to appreciate the good times you have to experience the bad ones. If there were only good times in life, it would all be mediocrity.
It has become scientific rather than annoying, because what is scientific and what is it for?
Knowledge is inherent to human beings, it has to do with the personal consciousness of the world. It’s not just the talk of the wise: we all ask our own questions in an attempt to understand the world. Wisdom lives and knows about you.
Are you already beautiful?
I think so. I find it amazing, especially if you have food on your plate and a roof to sleep under. Then there are the very sad truths, but there are also some who experience it as a miracle. I am very lucky to have a full and contented life: for me, living is a miracle.
Has it always been like that or have you gone through phases like Ian Curtis?
Yes, it has always been, with better times or worse, but the idea of waiting to come has never entered my mind. Suicide seems horrible to me and I feel so sorry for those who have been there. That is why we must be aware of mental health and take care of others.
What do those of us who, in our childhood, like Félix Rodríguez de la Fuente, avant la lettre geologist, do to the Earth? Too late to lose it?
I don’t know, it’s a very worrying topic. Our living arrangements are not exactly good, but I am not as concerned about the planet as I am about humanity. When we have finished everything, we will die but the earth will always return. It is about survival as a species.
‘Turn the dust until we return to our animal state,’ he sings. Has the time come to abandon anthropocentrism to think in a biomorphic way?
I like to think that people will evolve and we will last a few million more years. We have to find a much more reasonable way of life, although I don’t know if we will be able to do it; I myself do not know if I am capable of changing my habits, but we should think about it. It’s complicated and the economy doesn’t help. However, I have hope.
“Culture of rubbish,” Félix called it…
It’s a time we live in, that produces non-stop shit.
One of the factors that produces the most pollution, both mental and physical, is hyper-connectivity. We are naive to believe that the Internet is a democratization of culture and knowledge. Have you left the nets, Ivan?
No, because I need them: the network is a tool that a little brain can use well. But I am concerned, yes, the technology is progressing faster than we do.
Why do you say it has little to do with your voice?
Because what I have: I can’t work on it; It’s the one I have and the one I love.
And now it turns out that his son (Querido’s music) has inherited it, as well. Doesn’t it make you a little sad to see yourself remodeled to that size?
How my child will make me sick! He is my son, and he is like me in many ways, which is a source of great pride for me. I love listening to him, hugging him, kissing him.
How many times have you been sure they imitated you?
Not much, really. Sometimes they tell me that, but I don’t see it that way. Also the music I do takes many influences.
In a way, isn’t it true that it opens up the way they sing and sing?
I do not believe. Pop is reborn by very different forces, nothing is created. I listen to Josele Santiago and Morrissey and I try to sing like them, and by doing it myself I create something new. If someone invented something it would be the Beatles, or Bach or Mozart, or Prince or Michael Jackson, but the rest of us listen, we try to make that something our own and sometimes new people emerge. Pop music, moreover, is about that: repeating what you’ve heard from someone else and making it sound different.
Because of your age, you don’t have the experience of the Galician movement, but do you have a passion for it? (In fact he has a tribute album to Golpes Bajos).
No, I played it as a teenager, on TV, radio and records. And I owe a lot because he was my biggest reference, and if that reference, instead of being from Liverpool, is from your own city, it helps you believe that you can still. Here are the references about, and why it is important that there are women who do music or science, and children of immigrants who win a Euro competition. If we are here, it is because before there was a reference to get there.
How was your relationship with your brother Amaro when you were a child, with whom you have been sharing the army since the beginning?
It is very good, with you and with my sister Elena: we always take care of each other between the three of us. We grew up together and the three of us got along wonderfully. I think my parents had something to do with it too…
Isn’t it complicated to share life, passion, arts and crafts with a sibling? Not even half separated?
Sometimes we think differently, but we love each other so much that we work together. I know this is not always the case in families, but in ours it is.
Ivan, can Madrid move?
Every place I’ve lived has seemed like a place to live for me. It is true that cities have become a little uncomfortable, and they adapt to a special time. That’s why I came to the countryside a long time ago, because that’s what I felt.
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