At 62, Fito Páez maintains “the curiosity and desire” of youth and a momentum that does not allow him to stop creating. Music first of all, but also cinema and literature, all passions that have been developing in parallel throughout the decades. With Novelhis most recent album could finally combine them all.
Created as a rock musical, the 25 songs project – that Páez spent almost 40 years writing and finally saw the light on March 28 under Sony Music Spain – tells the magical story of Villa Constitución, a town in the province of Santa Fe, Argentina where a strange circus arrives to revolutionize the life of its inhabitants. Through songs such as “Universidad Prix”, “when the circus reaches the town”, “Superextraño” and “The Triumph of Love”, their unique characters are revealed: the university rector Restitude Martirius, the Witches Maldivina and Turbialuz, and the young Loka and Jimmy, protagonists of the love story, among others.
“We are already talking to many producers to film the movie once the tour ends next year,” says Páez in conversation with Spanish Billboard In New York. “And I’m also starting an adaptation [para] tap Novel whole [en concierto]that the viewer goes and see a show that is not a musical – it is the band playing the album and everything happens at the same time. ”
The launch arrives the same year of the 40th anniversary of Turnsthe second studio album in its wide discography, and the one that truly launched his career, with classics such as “11 and 6”, “ground cable” and “I come to offer my heart.”
“It has something similar to a beach, Turns. It’s like having arrived, after being so walking in the river or at sea, saying, ‘Ah, I got here’, “reflects on what this work of 1985 meant for him.” There are many elements there that define many things from the place where I was raised, where I learned music and where they loved me, and where they formed me. It is an album that I love very much, and I think it is a first strong step in the direction of the search for a more personal voice. ”
In this new delivery of conversation, the interpreter of successes that also include “love after love”, “Tombs of Glory” and “Backnicolor butterfly” also speaks of current issues such as migratory policies that have taken fans to avoid going to concerts in the United States for fear of being deported (“It is horrifying,” he says. “He remembers me when in the 78 of the concerts of Serú Girán, and they put us prisoners ”), and the prohibition of narcocorridos in some states of Mexico (” it is a cultural expression that is born of an experiential fact … and now the fault is made by the singers! No boys, it does not work that way “).
Watch the full interview in the video above.
