contacted her by email. She is now in France, doing a masters in philosophy, a branch of the humanities in which he specialized in the Catholic University of Peru. For those not located, as they present them very simply: it is the most interesting peruvian singer generation 2000. With two albums in tow, Emilio (2005) and N (2008) - has built a very particular world, full of darkness and gothic sounds that create atmospheres of tension and anxiety. As she says, maybe its purpose is to make a "Blade Runner in medieval times."
I can not help but observe that I knew prior to this interview. Of course he had never talked to her. Just saw her pass rush by the Catholic campus, carrying a small backpack and a sign of weakness that moved me and even liked. She once asked a friend of his faculty, and always told me: "It is good people and earnest in their studies." Soon, Natasha brought out his first album, and my surprise was huge: she, with a fragile humanity, he had sketched a frightening world of shadows and subtleties of horror.
started the interview with some kind words, through the communicative possibilities of the messenger. As seen later, Natasha hides more of a surprise, and despite ideas that many have of it, not only enjoys the complexities of darkness, but also more mundane cultural manifestations. For example, Melcochita, comedian Afro great popularity among the more numerous masses.
As my brother would say, them up at the beginning.
Ja, ja, ja
What are the first pieces of music you remember from your childhood?
I have, and I remember some of it, "singing" and "playing" with a tennis racket, "We're not gonna take it" The twisted sister. That's always a story in the family.
Look, what good taste.
then remember much about Michael Jackson's Thriller. BETAMAX had in the entire making of the video. Was very young, but I loved him again and again, and complete (perhaps then start my love of cinema and its process.) Of course, I liked the song itself. So far I appreciate the precision of dance, music, idea.
Tell me, Michael Jackson and The twisted sister came to your ears on the radio or the influence of a family member?
Michael Jackson is something that was home. In addition to video it had some vinyl. Sister Twister what must have been on TV. But that is really my childhood. Between my childhood and adolescence, things are changing, and that yes, the influence of my older brother is important.
An older brother. How many years will it take?
My brother took me 10 years. I am the youngest, I have other 3 sisters. And generally, in the family, I am the youngest of the cousins. So I think I've been influenced by everyone. Heard since The Beatles to Beethoven.
only "rock and academic music?
seeing: academic music, some popular music (Cuban son, Andean folk), rock (more). And after 10 or earlier music like The Smiths. I remember doing a presentation on Morrissey in 3rd half.
Was that in the 90?
Yes My brother brought home all those things. So when I have it from Moz very impressionable ages.
Your brother what other groups did you listen?
Smiths, Smashing Pumpkins, Radiohead, REM, Prisoners (and gives me a good laugh to mention the latter because, except for Hearts, musically are terrible). Well, a lot of alternative music in general, groups that were one hit wonders, and of which I can not remember their names.
That was the early 90 ...
Yes, early 90's. That's when the music enters into me hard, not only as a distraction that appeals to everyone, but as my own.
also Did you hear the English? Besides
Smiths, Happy Mondays, James, Sex Pistols, Clash, Joy Division. It happened that I rummaged among the things my brother. But he showed us all repeatedly and endlessly, it was The Smiths. Oh, and a Sex Pistols documentary.
Do you listen to rock also 60 and 70?
Almost nothing.
Not even Pink Floyd?
That I heard much later.
You mean you met the Sex Pistols before the Floyd?
Yes, and that says a lot. Pistols before Floyd, Smiths before Deep Purple, Grand Funk James before, and so on.
I remember in the 90's to mid to late when I went to school parties, it sounded just rock, and the girls and boys danced to Metallica. You had the same experience?
Sure, my 90's I think a good time. No 80's welcome as many people, and certainly less what comes next.
Musically, of course
On my own I sought Soundgarden, Stone Temple Pilots, and I never tired of listening.
is rare that no mention of Nirvana
Ja, ja, ja. It is there forever.
Do you still like Nirvana?
is an influence for all of the time, and yes I still do. There are times when I go back to listen. Personally I have been greatly influenced grunge. Where you can see that in what I do not know.
were 90. The second decade of underground rock Peru. Dolores Delirio appeared, Rafo Ráez, etc. Do you listen to?
No. Dolores Delirio heard something, but nothing more. Until now, for some reason, I hear what is being done in Peru.
somehow That explains your island.
Well, I also listened to Mar de Copas, but so far I do not understand.
"Incomprehensible or unbearable? Unbelievable
one. E incomprehensible that have the impact they have. Even with a recent song that came out in a movie. I do not know your name. But it has a music and lyrics that I look terrible. In fact they have done great things. It shows.
I have paid close attention to your music, and I've searched for previous references in Peru. Well, perhaps something of voice you have some connection.
I have said the Voice itself, but I have not heard. Some people tell me no I should say those things. One because they can take it the wrong way, and two because it's supposed to know more about music because I make music. But I see no necessary relationship.
I understand what you say. There is no necessary relationship. Each one is formed very tradition in the arts he practices. But understand that as a critic or as a pseudo critical try to give some logic to the historical construction of rock in Peru. So, theoretically at least, I believe that the Peruvian musicians listen to each other.
Ok, but is that a person is not formed from a logical need in a historical process. I have many musical influences from outside, but more importantly I grew up in Peru, in Lima, to be more specific. And it's not a musical pull everything from one part of the brain related to music only, but everywhere. In that sense, my thing, I think, always be Peruvian rock because my identity was forged in Lima, at a time that was already globalized, and in an environment (mine) that more pulled towards the British music American.
Ok. A detail or a curiosity, are you listening to anything right now?
This moment, no, but I thought putting something because the questions make me nervous. Thought to Mahler.
Asu, how sad.
Two weeks ago I listen obsessively to Mahler.
If I do the same, ending with a shot in the head. Anyway, I'm listening to the Beatles' Abbey Road.
What a great album! That is, in fact it is and everyone knows it but me I have a particular fondness.
I, too, because it is the first rock album I heard. Well, 90. I guess, I reckon you finished school in the late 90's. Am I wrong? I
high school, so I ended up at 17 ... That was in 1998.
was the time of Fujimori and Technocumbia.
Right.
Redeeming something like that massive music?
No, not rescued anything because it was made of the cheapest way, without love of anything, and it shows, it shows the bad sound, it shows the hype, it shows in everything.
Well, I I liked some riffs Tito Mauri, composer, guitarist and husband of Rosy War.
it take to see those things. I reject all, when I reject it, like food. That is, if you do not like something, simply reject it completely.
And I worried that someone named Rosy Rosa Guerra calling himself War.
did not know that name. Ja, ja, ja. But hey, those riffs that you mentioned do not like, because that sound that gives the guitar I've never liked.
"Not the day the jungle cumbia 60 and 70, which, incidentally, is almost the same sound at Rosy War?
change things touch and alterations that accompany it. But still ... That is, there are many details that I like metal, but there is a sound type guitar riffs that I find unbearable. Of course this is personal taste.
You mean you do not like Juaneco or Bareto?
Oh, wait, that a score like I did not say that I do not like the whole.
is just now told me that if you did not like something rejected it altogether.
Sure, at first. So I did reference to food.
Exactly. And you told me you did not like the Technocumbia. After cumbia music not the 60 and 70. Well, it is logical to infer that you do not like Juaneco or Bareto.
not hear cumbia. And I never liked Technocumbia. La cumbia not pull me, but I seem unbearable. Now, on Bareto, I have not heard. And I have nothing against them because I know Joaquin from school, and is a very nice guy.
Well, Bareto makes, among other things, covers the Juaneco.
do know what they do, I heard pieces but nothing to say.
Back to the 90's. Were your early days in college?
No, because I spent over a year and a half to nothing.
But even at those times one has its own soundtrack. What was yours?
not remember that much has changed. He always had a Walkman with the same issues as always. I am a person who never tires of hearing the same thing, so I'm not a music lover in the sense of hearing and investigating new things. I was once asked: listen and you're listening now, and I said Sticky Fingers the Stones, because they had come to that.
Ok. But in 2000 you kept hearing the same. You mean in college there was a twist, a twist?
not recall any particular change, the more love you I have a movie, and in fact I think the biggest influence in my life: musical, visual, intellectual (the latter with the philosophy.)
Ok. Did you put a Mahler?
No. Nothing.
I'm listening to Cumbia Bareto.
When you return to Peru I'll buy it.
I love Bareto. I follow them from their first album.
That did not hear for lack of curiosity, but I heard good reviews from all sides.
is they are very good. And they have achieved something very interesting, something extra-musical. Music have been considered until recently belonging to certain social and economic class to a sort of massive explosion. Moreover, I am sure that plays covers of Group 5 Juaneco because Bareto made them.
That sounds good, and I think UNFAIR the allegations that are taking advantage of the music of another that sold less.
is true ... And there's a detail, a detail that also makes them special to Bareto: always carry a very beautiful dancer to their concerts.
Ja, ja, ja.
But good ... as well, listening only to the British and the Americans of 80 and 90, I went out an album as dark as Emilio?
know, the brain is so weird that I think that part of Thriller in which there is a "parenthesis" and the music gets darker, and leave the dead from the grave, my brain kept forever.
Ja, ja, ja. Michael Jackson would be very proud to lead a very particular influence.
This "bracket" is a rather dark pop. And I have no prejudices that prevent me point out that influence.
That sounds nicer to say that to reject the whole of a set by the appreciation of some parts.
course, in the case of cumbia, not a rejection, it's just lack of affinity, and those things are beyond one.
Look, I ask you something that sounds weird. Melcochita You know, right?
course.
writes Haikus q Did you know?
No, but not surprised. Melcochita is inexhaustible, and I appreciate it, but know little of his music. I have knowledge that is a good musician, or so they say.
course, but the detail is as follows. Many people say that "serious", says Melcochita is a vulgar, a brute, a racist, etc ... But look, has a sensitive side: he writes Haikus. Of course I say that does not reach enlightenment by way of the East, but it makes ...
Sensitivity is a many-sided, look at where Toulouse Lautrec and fed to his art, of all people consider vulgar. Now these people do not know the difference. There are many people who just listen to jazz and academic because over time it has been so imposed, but many have low sensitivity or intelligence.
is true ... I pass, therefore, a Haiku Melcochita. Here goes: A black anxious Calata Your mama / I do not say more ... Is, reproduces the logic Melcochita humor, but it is a Haiku in the end out, and far more than they sometimes make some Peruvian poets.
Ja, ja, ja. Sure.
But let the issue of the dark. To your music itself ... To me your first and second album is an invitation to darkness, anguish, to plunge into a void of vertigo. Moreover, there are times when the voice sings to someone else, but the other seems a metaphysical presence. Tell me, was there a need to express an architect or a logic of art? Was there more momentum than technical? Were there any demons or just generating atmospheres?
are the two things. My way of thinking is that of the soliloquy, and soliloquy the other person, because there's always someone else, I am. I also think the atmosphere already. So I think cinema is a big influence on my music. My music is music of a scene. I live in these worlds of castles, ghosts, low light, fear. A Blade Runner in medieval times.
That sounded great.
Of course, I realize just (a few weeks ago) that Harrison Ford has been part of three films, different yes, but very important, and not have to do more.
You mentioned twice the cinema ... Maybe you like the German cinema of the early 20 th century? How
Fritz Lang?
course.
Well, that is the inspiration for the cover. Instead of the M, N. It is as if someone would make me look and I am the crime, and I dialed myself. Again in the second album I'm talking to myself.
Look, my humor may corrode some things that are more or less serious. But at first I thought that N was in fact a Z, and Zorro was.
Ja, ja, ja.
Sorry. But as I've seen your cover.
Well, I always liked the idea of \u200b\u200bfox-Z. And no problem, some humor has to be.
Sure ...
myself why I seek to take away the seriousness of my things. Lima is the influence. Lima has gotten me everywhere, because that's where I grew up.
But I do not see no humor in your music.
I know, but when I see it as very serious, I try to take that, because then the things they say about me, I do not recognize much.
Listen to Emilio and then N as giving the impression that you are a person living distressed, anxious, and have in your refrigerator, dead pigeons and cats and take them with nails and the eaten without cooking.
That's my imagination, yes, but things are more beautiful and more complex. I think if that person would not do what I do as I do.
course. There is something that attracts me your album: the lyrics. Do you like the French 19, no?
Ugh. I do not know if I like or forced me. Studied at the Franco Peruano, and 19 came from all sides. It was more important than anything. The French love her, it's clear, and live and feed the other of its literature is almost your duty. Certainly Baudelaire is key. Their skeletons, their dead, their contempt, but also his love.
But have you read the Peruvians, too?
Vallejo, clear, and I will visit often, and spoke. Eielson anyway. Adam.
And of Peruvians live?
Well, I like what he does Romy Sordómez. I had no interest in reading poetry today, and I noticed with your card. Something led me to give it time, and I liked it, and then I met her, and I liked how she, too, so out of the seriousness and solemnity of our young writers and poets.
is true ... Well, now you know another poet contemporary Melcochita.
Ja, ja, ja. Sure. Melcochita always liked me, and I think is a good example of my tastes ends.
Look for ... that is the title of the interview: Melcochita I've always liked, and I think is a good example of my tastes ends.
Melcochita appreciate, and appreciation to Martha Hildebrandt.
Martha I do not appreciate.
Almost anyone.
Sure ...
But I do.
In my case, I appreciate Melcochita Denegri and that finally after all are about the same.
Denegri fan I was in my teens. I saw all programs, but then I lost the taste. It's repetitive and very opinionated.
Tell me, do you like the narrative?
Yes, philosophy has absorbed me too, but I'm back to reading literature, Orhan Pamuk. That is, always is, but I'm back with another interest in it.
Any preference for a Peruvian? Vargas Llosa
above all is the monster that is because it is a monster.
But beyond god among mortals, do you have a preference?
Arguedas, Ciro Alegría. I remember having enjoyed a lot of hungry dogs. It also depends on when you get a book.
And some of the newer generations?
I have to admit I know little, because that's when I lost literature.
not worry. I'm not taking a knowledge test. I ask only for things that also interest me a bit to me.
Ja, ja, ja. Spend a bit like music: read the classics, and new really has to pull me to go into it and give it time.
understand. And the Peruvian cinema?
Oh, yes there little darling.
Something is about to die for you?
What I remember is welcome Wolf La Boca. And now what Madeinusa. I remember .... mmm ... I do not know if it is called Mirage.
whom?
That played a big influence on me. The desert and the voice saying who's the man running.
I think you mean a movie Robles Godoy. And you're right. The film is called Mirage.
That . That kind of empty silences and I think they're on me.
As the dark moment of the song from Michael Jackson ...
Ja, ja, ja, yes. These things are accurate, keys, unique, a piece of something is suddenly stronger than all ... Even something as a whole fell in love with me was Anna Karenina, and I think that's the best novel I've read.
And Madame Bovary?
Also, but less. Nothing like Anna Karenina.
Are you an Anna Karenina?
No.
Would you like to be?
either. I like her being her.
I mean by his search for freedom, fullness.
is different, she did not have, nor Madame Bovary.
But followed her, going back.
which is a search sense, it explains a lot about the situation in which they are.
Ok. I hope not having bored or overwhelmed.
No.
Thanks for your time.
Sure.
And excuse my foolishness.
I do not remember any.
Mention Melcochita, z fox.
the contrary, I feel good that not everything is serious. The latter would have overwhelmed me.
Ok. Then we will end the interview.
Ok.
Bye. Goodbye
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Well, this was the conversation with Natasha Luna, who surprised me with his unique sense of humor, his passion for poetry and film, and his knowledge of rock music from the 80 and 90. In closing I want to add something by way reflection: some artists are more complex and deeper than the stereotype in which mistakenly locked. If you want to check this, because Look at Natasha and appreciation for Melcochita. Do not go!
July Meza
photo Author: José Orihuela
Picture taken from: http://secretarianarkista.blogspot.com/2007/01/luna.html
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