Since its creation in 2011, the We Love Green festival has always focused on urban music, especially rap from here or elsewhere. The 2022 edition is no exception to the rule since it opens, Thursday, June 2, with an evening dedicated to Gorillaz, Damon Albarn’s funk and hip-hop group, but also with the new French rap scene, represented by La Fève or Ziak. Saturday 4, she will invite the icons of the genre that have become the Toulousain Laylow and the Marseillais SCH. The Parisians of PNL will play in closing. However, it is not the French or the Anglo-Saxons who will create the event in the Bois de Vincennes, but the Spaniard C. Tangana, also scheduled for Sunday 5.
The Madrilenian, El Madrileño (named after his second album, published in 2021, crowned with three Latin Grammy Awards), will play for the first time in France, inviting on stage the many singers and musicians who participated in the reissue of his record. under the title The Desktop. “I am still fighting with my accountant, he jokes a few days before his concert. He tells me that it’s madness to go on tour with more than a hundred people, but I want all my musician friends with whom I made this record to be present. »
C. Tangana, rapper: “I don’t play flamenco, but it’s the flavor of our home, it’s popular music”
In Spain, C. Tangana, real name Anton Alvarez Alfaro, 31, is a star. He first became known under the pseudonym Crema, then adopted C. Tangana by setting up the rap group Agorazein in 2011. His voice, close to that of an R’n’B crooner or a latin lover, distinguishes him from his friends, but it is above all his musical curiosity that will make him known to the general public. His first track was a collaboration with his girlfriend at the time, singer Rosalia, who achieved rapid success mixing hip-hop and flamenco production. The rapper, he will not only draw from Andalusian music but relies on family traditions, these end of meals where a parent takes out a guitar and begins to sing. In Spain, these festive moments after the digestif have a name, the dessertwhich C. Tangana illustrates on the cover of his album with a table covered with a colorful tablecloth and his dishes which are just as colorful.
A “sobremesa” that C. Tangana recreates for the live videos of the Tiny Desk Concerts organized by the American NPR (National Public Radio) and on stage: “Almost all Spanish families have their uncle who plays the guitar, explains the singer. It is something very common to sing and play after meals. I don’t play flamenco, but it’s our flavor, it’s popular music that everyone feels and understands. Most of our Spanish icons when we were kids incorporated it into their music, like the pop-rock band Estopa. »
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