{"id":237886,"date":"2024-02-22T11:23:59","date_gmt":"2024-02-22T10:23:59","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.tapasmagazine.es\/?p=237886"},"modified":"2024-02-22T11:29:06","modified_gmt":"2024-02-22T10:29:06","slug":"tapas-interview-hidrogenesse","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.tapasmagazine.es\/en\/tapas-interview-hidrogenesse\/","title":{"rendered":"Tapas Interview | Hidrogenesse: \u00abAs a result of the album ‘Un d\u00edgito binario dudoso’, people took us more seriously\u00bb"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

Click here<\/a> to read the Spanish version.<\/strong>They have released an album, Ciutat de sorra, inspired by the work of the artist David Bestu\u00e9; they are the authors of the songs of Stella Maris in La Mes\u00edas; and they signed the soundtrack of the new film by Nacho Vigalondo. Political? And they also flee from pigeonholing. If the reader enters, out of curiosity, in the website of the Astroh\u00fangaro label, owned by Carlos Ballesteros and Gen\u00eds Segarra, he will find a good list of labels that define the sound of Hidrogenesse, the group they formed more than twenty years ago. Well, all of them are lies, or at least they have not written them. They are words with which the critics have defined their sound in albums and performances. A sample of how they want to remove iron to life and of their very recognizable irony.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Un d\u00edgito binario dudoso<\/em>, the album you dedicated to the mathematician Alan Turing, is ten years old, a work that consolidated you in many ways, how have you changed since then?
Gen\u00eds: <\/strong>Well, just the same instruments and equipment that we bought to take that record live are the ones we are still using right now. And we have already made several records in between.
Carlos: <\/strong>We used to carry only a laptop (laughs).
G: <\/strong>What we did is we sampled the most fun sounds of the “digit” and we still use them. Maybe the band has changed, but live we still hear those bells, the drums, the snares\u2026 we’ve added things, that’s why we’re different. But to change, we haven’t changed anything.<\/p>\n\n\n

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Hidrogenesse en el Bar Olaf (Barcelona). Fotograf\u00eda: Javier M\u00e1rquez.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n\n\n

So that album was a starting point.<\/strong>
C: <\/strong>We had to think about how to present ourselves live and we did add some elements, what we later called “bad theater”, which is to present the songs, because we added something more theatrical. And because of that album we were taken more seriously, people thought that the band was not a joke. It was like a weird point in our career, people who followed us from the beginning told us: “Don’t believe it, it’s not your best album, even if the magazines tell you so” (laughs).<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Now with Ciutat de sorra<\/em> you take up again the question of the concept album, do you find the theme or are you looking for it?<\/strong>
G: <\/strong>In the case of Bestu\u00e9 it was that the music had to last twelve minutes, which is the time the projections in theaters last. Turing’s was born because someone proposed us to do something in an expo for his centenary. The person who did not propose them was dismissed and nothing, it fell through. The two works were born from a proposal that, as artists say, leads you to do research. It is not something that we feel like doing or that we are looking for, in the case of Bestu\u00e9 I had never thought of doing something about the transformation of Barcelona.
C: <\/strong>But when you come across something like this? With total freedom and someone else’s idea, it’s like writing a freewrite.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

And how did Los Javis approach composing for the group Stella Maris?
G: <\/strong>They gave us a lot of freedom with a very limited theme. The songs were appearing as the scripts were being created. But without knowing who was going to sing them. They hadn’t cast the girls yet.
C: <\/strong>It was entering an abstract world of total freedom, where we entered without knowing if they would like it. We imagined that they would have something in mind, because they are very music lovers.
G: <\/strong>That they gave us total freedom, that they delegated to us, was even more responsibility. They are people who are very attentive to the music. But they didn’t get involved in anything.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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