MADRID (AP) — Capitalizing on a powerful second in Spanish-language music, Uruguayan singer-songwriter Jorge Drexler is embarking on his first tour of Europe.
“Even Don Quixote didn’t get so far as city Spanish-speaking music is getting at this time on the earth. You possibly can go all over the place and you can find music that was written in Spanish,” he instructed The Related Press in an interview. “I’m blissful to see that (Spanish) opens doorways to locations that I by no means thought that we might get earlier than.”
His award-winning newest album, “Tinta y tiempo” (“Ink and time”), earned him six of his 13 Latin Grammy Awards, a part of a haul that features an Oscar.
On his tour Drexler will current “Derrumbe,” a brand new tune concerning the lack of love that he rescued from his notes. He mentioned will probably be included in a TV present created by Mexican actor and director Diego Luna.
The European tour will probably be extra intimate than the exhibits of latest years, with voice, guitar and an open repertoire — a “first date” with an viewers that Drexler expects will probably be seeing him for the primary time.
“I’ve at all times seemed West,” he mentioned, with performances in the USA, Canada, Mexico and elsewhere. “I’ve a lot work in that a part of the world that I didn’t look East sufficient.”
He appears ahead to seeing some European cities for the primary time and visiting others akin to Paris and Berlin after a few years. The tour will take him to Denmark, Eire, Italy and Sweden, amongst different nations.
After the tour ends in mid-June, he’ll return to the leather-based armchair in his studio in Madrid to take a seat with a guitar and a clean piece of paper and “attempt to get fortunate.”
However as his repertoire grows, songwriting turns into extra difficult as a result of “the extra you launch, the more room that occupies in your mind,” Drexler mentioned.
“When you’ve written 200 or 300 songs, every new tune has to open just a little house,” he mentioned.
Resorting to synthetic intelligence just isn’t an choice, not less than for now. He examined ChatGPT and, though the consequence “was completely written, from a syntactic, orthographic perspective,” it lacked poetry.
“I like biographies and I like songwriters, and I wish to get to know the persona of an individual. And I just like the errors that information you thru sudden locations. So, I nonetheless want songs written by human beings,” he mentioned.
Drexler additionally enjoys collaborations within the artistic course of, akin to those with C.Tangana, Rubén Blades, or Noga Erez in his earlier album.
“It’s a reduction for me, it relieves me from myself,” he mentioned. “My worst enemy in relation to writing is my previous, my obsessions, the best way I work. It’s what I’m. And I’m blissful to indicate it, however on the identical time, it’s an enormous, huge burden.”
In collaborating, there are not any restrictions within the type of music or the generations that hear.
“I don’t assume that the music we did up to now was the (good) music, like most of my era,” Drexler mentioned. “(I’m) extra within the music that my 12-year-old daughter listens to than the one which my era used to take heed to. So I attempt to be open to various things.”
Teresa Medrano, The Related Press
