With new music almost ready, Peces Raros comes to Neuquén for a show this Saturday at 11pm at Espacio Duam (San Martín 5901, Neuquén). After the show by the band from La Plata, local DJ Agus Hernalz will start his set, and will end with Deep Mariano.
Tickets are on sale in physical format at Nikel (San Martín 526, Cipolletti), On Fly (Río Negro 233, Neuquén), Flipper (Av.Argentina 179, Neuquén) and by system through tuentrada.com or through the Bombo App.
In their own way, Peces Raros let some light into their new songs: “Óxido” and “Desaparecer”, the two previews so far known from what will be the imminent new album, offer a luminosity that contrasts with the sound of their latest albums, but, above all, “Dogma” (2021), the last one released so far, whose black cover says a lot about how it sounds and what it contains.
“Right now we are in the city of Buenos Aires finishing the recording of the mixes for the album,” says Lucio Consolo from the phone, who together with Marco Viera gave shape a little more than ten years ago, from the depths of La Plata to this duo that was not always that way nor did it always sound like that.
The band began its career making music influenced by Argentine traditional rock, from Charly García and Luis Alberto Spinetta to Los Abuelos de la Nada and Soda Stereo, and the British pop rock of Radiohead, Artic Monkeys and Gorillaz. All this in a very Weird Fish way, of course.
From that time is No Gracias, the first album and the only one from that stage because they quickly delved into electronics, generating a style that brought them closer to sounds like those of Justice, Duft Punk and, above all, Primal Scream, but without abandoning the all the classic song format that saw them born: Peces Raros is an electronic band that plays rock instruments.
Back to the present, Lucio says about the upcoming album: “It’s true that it’s an album where there are a lot of choices that end up being that brighter, more marked place that is perceived. I think that it’s an album that has a very particular energy imprinted on it. First of all because it’s an album that we composed in just two weeks. So, from its genesis, the album contains an energy in which the decisions were made in a very forceful way. And then, I think that for this album we’ve been resolving the tensions outwards rather than inwards, right? That is to say, rather than exploding, it’s an album that implodes.”
In February of last year, Lucio and Marco took advantage of some time between tours and locked themselves in the studio to develop what they call cells from which the songs emerged. Thus, they took advantage of that time to compose the album because later they would no longer have that time.
Or yes, but not in the way they needed to have it: locking themselves in a studio for two weeks, without scheduled dates or calls to attend to, with all the hours that are necessary with the instruments, machines and computers. “Be calm,” Lucio summarizes. “So we did that, it was two weeks where we said, let’s write the album, let’s write it here.” Then, obviously, “we have been working for a year and a half, almost two, for those two weeks.”
This introspective way of working was very typical of this album, Lucio clarifies. “Perhaps in the previous albums, because of the time we have had, perhaps to sit down to compose, to work, to use our time in a different way, the approach was perhaps much more relaxed. Not to say hey, we take advantage of this time, because this time is the time we have to do things the way we want.”
Both Lucio and Marco believe that it is their best album: “We believe that it is our best album so far, the most finished in many ways. “I think it has to do not only with the compositional aspect, which I think is very solid on this album, but also because it is our fifth album, we have been working for many years with the studio as a great instrument.”
