Nacho Vegas is a Spanish singer-songwriter who stylistically oscillates between folk music and rock. He usually sings alone or with the group LA CUARTA TRAMA ASTURIANA.
As a singer-songwriter, the influences of Will Oldham, Nick Cave, Leonard Cohen, Nick Drake, Bob Dylan, Tom Waits and Townes Van Zandt, among others, are recognized in Nacho Vegas. Explore the intimate ways of the singer-songwriter in his music, intense but elusive; his texts have a strong autobiographical, self-referential character, he is in some way postmodernist in that he uses references to speeches or elements of other musicians, filmmakers, writers. Although in the largest body of his songs he sings to places, situations, people and characters that exist or are inspired by specific people, transformed urban legends, etc.
The rock aspect incorporates minimalist nuances, which can approximate both the work of Pascal Comelade and the arrangements of Mastretta . Vegas music also recalls Spanish indie figures like Fernando Alfaro - Chucho - and even at times, the loudest, Los Planetas. But mainly his style is identifiable with singer-songwriters of modern folk and rock, from whom he has recognized extracting chords, refrains, pieces of lyrics, etc., to compose his songs.
Few can write songs as intimate and incisive at the same time as this one. In it, Nacho Vegas builds a modern fable about colliding universes, about the frustration caused by fighting to save someone you care about from a toxic ecosystem that he has built around himself. Trying to lift the blindfold of someone who doesn't want to see is harder the more egocentric and alienated his world is, no matter how much one keeps trying. With a reflective cadence, a narrative melody that flows peacefully with the lyrics and a steady and slow rhythm, Nacho sings to that frustration, but not from resentment, but from the melancholy caused by things that are impossible to preserve.
Today's tune "El Mundo En Torno A Ti", taken from his latest album "Mundos Inmóviles Derrumbándose", released on Oso Polita Records, 2022, enjoy!
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