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!
"Scarlet" is the new album from Spanish Sludge/Grunge/Metal trio ROSY FINCH releasing on the 6th March 2020. Originally formed in Alicante (Spain) circa 2013, featuring members of PYRAMIDAL (Lluís Mas) and doom metal act HELA (Mireia Porto). Their take on the stoner genre is a furious and eclectic blend of influences ranging from SONIC YOUTH to the MELVINS, showcasing brooding & atmospheric vocals laced with insidious and heavy riffs. ROSY FINCH breaks out of the mould and take the listeners on a completely different path than the one usually expected from a band of this genre.
2019 saw a line-up change during the recording of the new album, with Oscar Soler (DOMO, PYRAMIDAL) and Juanjo Ufarte (GRAJO, THE DRY MOUTHS) taking over bass and drums duties. The new formation has created a new heavy sound where singer and guitarist Mireia Porto finally seems to be in her element transmitting her darkest emotions. "Scarlet", is the second full-length album and the fourth release from the band was recorded and mixed at Red Records Studio and Surnia Records with mastering handled by scene legend Billy Anderson. After a year of composing the album, Porto was intent on creating a concept album with the colour red being the central theme. "Scarlet" is about aspiring to be more and to do more. It’s about the idea that nothing will remove the pain but nothing can detain you. Red has always represented danger, lust, sin, guilt, blood…” Says Mireia. Each song on "Scarlet" has a red type color in the title and represents different stories of different people (from fantasy to the real life) always ranging from love to violence. The album is heavier and sludgier than their previous releases and contains plenty of screams, melodic vocals, metal drums and dirty bass lines.
Its dark and it’s Scarlet Red.
Mireia Porto: Vocals, Guitars & Bass
Elena García: Bass
Lluís Mas: Drums
Today's tune "Lava" is taken from "Scarlet", released March 6, 2020, Produced by Mireia Porto & Lluís Mas at Red Records, San Isidro, Spain 2019. Enjoy this burning hot tune!
