2023-11-30 05:46:00
With his ability to incorporate broad influences and synthesize them into a unique and unclassifiable expression, Richard Coleman He went through some effervescent decades of national rock while remaining faithful to his own style. Since the beginning of the 80s, side by side with other legends such as Daniel Melero, he formed Siam and began to steer an uncertain course, always guided by an unwavering drive for novelty. Then the call from Soda Stereo would come to act as second guitar and, very shortly following, the founding of the Friction band, that marked part of the alternative course of the mid-1980s.
At the Stud Free Pub, located in the heart of Belgrano, they set up a countercultural collective asylum in which an important part of the rock of the decade took shape. Many of those sounds still sound, years later and were the catalyst for other of Richard’s projects, who also formed the band The 7 Dolphins and since 2011 he has cultivated a prolific solo career, full of albums. Now, together with Andrea Echeverri, singer of the Colombian band Velvetypresents baby spiders, a song with a video that is shaping up to be terrifying. But Richard Coleman relativizes that, laughing: “What terrifies me is that others define me.” PERFIL spoke with the singer, composer and guitarist who never stops expanding and who, according to him, is always starting.
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—You present a collaboration with Andrea Echeverri: what feelings did working with her make you? What does it represent for Latin American rock?
—I started working with Andrea during the tour Total Thanks de Soda Stereo, which ran between 2020 and 2022, and there, in addition to the great artist she is, I discovered an exceptional, loving and sensitive person. A friendship began to form and that led, I would say naturally, to me asking him to participate in my new song. My idea was that, starting with the duet, we would both leave the “comfort zone” that always lurks and lulls us as artists and thus generate something new. The result exceeded my expectations. Andrea, with Aterciopelados, the band with which MTV was assaulted in the ’90sis a voice (not only as a singer, but also because of his principles) that is very important and necessary for the expression of Latin American rock throughout the world.
—A dark song, as is the video. Did you rediscover the gothic? Maybe even with some terror?
—It is true that it is a dark love song, with a certain epic, but I don’t think it is that gothic. I was always a post-unk before anything else, the rest is labels.
—How precise and virtuoso the Trans-Siberian Express sounds in “Baby Spiders.” What do you think is the reason for this solidity?
-Thank you. It’s a supergroup. All band members we are artists with a lot of craft and love for what we do, and we have been playing together for regarding 12 years now in the service of music above all. It is what unites us and it came naturally.
—Where do you feel you are in your career?
—Always starting.
—What is your assessment of the European tour?
—We tied. It was very exciting for the audience and for me to share with such intimacy the handful of songs that I brought, so far and so far away, that it is not the same. And Dublin is magical.
—Is there an album coming? What can you tell us?
-I don’t know. we’ll see. For now, and for four years now, my creativity is taken away by survival. I am an independent musician and I live from day to day. To work on an album I need to plan home logistics months in advance and be able to set achievable goals (artistic in my case). None of that seems possible for many of us Argentines.
—Nowadays where does your inspiration to make music come from?
—Of my education and cultural consumption. The lived is the fuel, the past a fossil.
—You were present in some fundamental decades of rock. Today what is rock for you?
—As always, a rotating identity, a label that comes and goes, an entertainment that does not entertain, an ideal that does not exist. A great artistic expression for those of us who are sensitive to the essential and suffer from obsolescence and ephemerality.
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