30th anniversary of the elephant group

Barcelona (EFE).- The Barcelona group Elephantes celebrates three decades of experience with the album “Thirtieth Anniversary or Gardening Treaty”, a work that includes a double CD containing their best hits and other rare songs, a DVD with their performance at the Sonorama Festival and a documentary about the course of this The party.

In an interview with EFE, Shawarma, the singer, and Julio Cascan, the guitarist, were very proud and grateful to have reached their 30th wedding anniversary in these circumstances, having “a lot of our identity and our work” in both a compilation album as well as the fact that they are able to say they have dedicated themselves to music.

In these 30 years, Kaskan explained, everything has changed, “except what is necessary,” namely the desire to produce a song and get it to an audience: “Now everything is faster, whether creating music or consuming it.” Everything is moving at a speed that did not exist in the early nineties; But the basic thing, writing the songs and recording them and showing them to people, is the same.

Regarding the driving force of creativity, Shawarma believes that there is not much difference between what a 20-year-old feels today, who has the need to express himself through trap, and what Elephants felt when he was 20, who fulfilled that need by making Rock music: “Ultimately he is someone who needs to untie the knots and choose music as a medium.”

Songs that had the greatest impact on elephants

What doesn't change are the songs, and in “The 30th Anniversary or A Treatise on Gardening” they are the songs that have defined Elefantes' career.

Thus, Album A contains 15 songs from his discography, while Album B brings together rare songs and exotic songs, some unreleased or found only on Spotify and some releases, “so that the follower who actually wants the music can find it.” Look for everything put together.”

According to Shawarma, choosing the songs was difficult “because we have a lot of songs and we love them all.” The singer pointed out that what is complicated is finding a balance “between what we think the audience wants to hear and what we need to be there,” but stresses that above all it was important that the songs work to define “what elephants are.”

In this way, Album A collects songs from Elefantes' early works, such as “El clown”, “Azul”, “Abre más width el camino” and other more recent songs, see “Cada vez”, “Te Quiero” or “Credits”.

“It's not an album with new songs,” says Shawarma, laughing. “I would have called it 'Greatest Hits,' because it sounds great, but we don't have great songs, maybe two or three.” Kaskan adds wryly that they probably could have called it “Little Hits.”

New topic

The only new thing is the song “This Love”, which for Shawarma is “a kind of summation of how we feel right now”, since Elephants is in a moment of celebration, looking back to understand what the group is all about and facing the future. The future, so as not to remain stuck in depression.

“In this song we felt the need to talk about the current moment we are living in, and if we look back, we see that our journey has continued with love, with the love between us, with the love of making songs, with love. To our audience, for the love we received from the audience…” Shawarma noted. .

Regarding the album's name, the singer explained that they wanted to call it “30th Anniversary”, “so people would know what they're buying”, but since it was too corny, they decided to go for something more poetic, which led them to “A Treatise on Gardening”, since ” That we tend our garden for 30 years, and grow songs for 30 years.”

Both Kaskan and Shawarma, who are about to embark on a tour that will take them across the country, say they feel more nervous now when it comes to getting on stage than when they started due to the responsibility of being “at the audience level.” “, the people.” It allows you to live the life of a musician, so they continue “with the same commitment if we play at the Palau de la Música Catalana as when we go to the Aspid or the BeachClub.”

Elefantes will begin its 30th anniversary celebration with a concert on April 12 at Teatro Circo Price in Madrid and another on April 19 at Palau de la Música Catalana in Barcelona, ​​which will be followed by other dates throughout the year. Spring and summer in Cordoba, Albacete, Valencia, Seville, Badajoz, Zaragoza or Mexico City, with the aim of announcing new shows in the future.