material defectuoso

Num. Cat: 2564673420 / WE833

LC 04281

total time 43:19

© 2011 Warner Music Spain S.L.

Warner Music Group Company.

Manufactured: Warner Music Spain S.L.

artwork: Warner Music

When I was called to participate in the new Extremoduro album, I didn’t know very well what I was about to encounter. They told me that the project was created in “La casa de Iñaki” (Muxik-On studios) around 2010 and the beginning of 2011, and that the production was the work of Iñaki “Uoho”, with Iñigo Etxebarrieta as the sound engineer. I was under the illusion that the first violin would be Ara Malikian – with whom I had a very good relationship – and that I would take up the second violin, thus completing the musical composition with Humberto Armas (viola) and Juan Pérez de Albéniz (cello).
The sessions were intense and very natural. Ara, with his overflowing energy and his improvised way of listening to music, pushed us to the sun. I especially remember the theme “Si te vas…” (track 8, like the book). Here the hearts were not a mere adornment: we sustain that raw melancholy that Robe imprints in his voice and that clear call that describes the letter. He marked the attacks with a freedom that was accustomed at first, but then became addictive. I learned to enter my space in a second plan without losing intensity, listening and responding to the rest of the message.

The environment was distinct from any other classic recording. There are María “Cebolleta” Martín with her female choirs, Gino Pavone on percusión, Javier Mora on pianos and organs, Mikel Piris on saxo and flauta… and the hard core: Robe, Iñaki, Cantera and Miguel. If you breathed a very controlled creative desire. As the contraportada says: “Demás us us encargado sotros –ya sabéis–”. Seeing the finished book is exciting. I recognize myself in the credits of the themes: in “Desarraigo” (track 1 of the album, which in the booklet appears as “Desvraigo” and which opens with “Voy perdidito y me encocontrado a una princessa”) and in “Calle Esperanza s/n”, where the words tell us this environment of fire light and treasure entered. I remember these months: where we are Ara Malikian on the first violin, I on the second, Humberto on the viola and Juan on the cello, each playing on the grain of the sand. It was a pleasure to place my violin at the service of such hopeless and beautiful songs, forming part of that small heartfelt story within the earthquake that was “Defective Material”. “We love this album, we hope you will enjoy it too” say the credits. Yes: I like it, and I look at the pride of having played the violin after this small earthquake.
"When I was called to participate in the new Extremoduro album, I didn't know much about what I was about to meet."
—Mario Perez

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