Uruguayan singer-songwriter Jorge Drexler is embarking on his first tour of Europe
MADRID — Capitalizing on a formidable second in Spanish-language music, Uruguayan singer-songwriter Jorge Drexler is embarking on his first tour of Europe.
“Even Don Quixote didn’t get so far as city Spanish-speaking music is getting right now on this planet. You may go in every single place and you will see that music that was written in Spanish,” he informed The Related Press in an interview. “I’m completely happy to see that (Spanish) opens doorways to locations that I by no means thought that we may get earlier than.”
His award-winning newest album, “Tinta y tiempo” (“Ink and time”), earned him six of his 13 Latin Grammy Awards, a part of a haul that features an Oscar.
On his tour Drexler will current “Derrumbe,” a brand new track concerning the lack of love that he rescued from his notes. He stated it will likely be included in a TV present created by Mexican actor and director Diego Luna.
The European tour will probably be extra intimate than the exhibits of current years, with voice, guitar and an open repertoire — a “first date” with an viewers that Drexler expects will probably be seeing him for the primary time.
“I’ve all the time seemed West,” he stated, with performances in america, Canada, Mexico and elsewhere. “I’ve a lot work in that a part of the world that I didn’t look East sufficient.”
He appears to be like ahead to seeing some European cities for the primary time and visiting others reminiscent of Paris and Berlin after a few years. The tour will take him to Denmark, Eire, Italy and Sweden, amongst different international locations.
After the tour ends in mid-June, he’ll return to the leather-based armchair in his studio in Madrid to take a seat with a guitar and a clean piece of paper and “attempt to get fortunate.”
However as his repertoire grows, songwriting turns into extra sophisticated as a result of “the extra you launch, the more room that occupies in your mind,” Drexler stated.
“When you’ve written 200 or 300 songs, each new track has to open slightly area,” he stated.
Resorting to synthetic intelligence will not be an possibility, no less than for now. He examined ChatGPT and, though the consequence “was completely written, from a syntactic, orthographic perspective,” it lacked poetry.
“I like biographies and I like songwriters, and I wish to get to know the persona of an individual. And I just like the errors that information you thru sudden locations. So, I nonetheless desire songs written by human beings,” he stated.
Drexler additionally enjoys collaborations within the artistic course of, reminiscent of those with C.Tangana, Rubén Blades, or Noga Erez in his earlier album.
“It’s a reduction for me, it relieves me from myself,” he stated. “My worst enemy on the subject of writing is my previous, my obsessions, the best way I work. It’s what I’m. And I’m completely happy to indicate it, however on the identical time, it’s an enormous, massive burden.”
In collaborating, there aren’t any restrictions within the form of music or the generations that hear.
“I don’t assume that the music we did prior to now was the (good) music, like most of my era,” Drexler stated. “(I’m) extra within the music that my 12-year-old daughter listens to than the one which my era used to take heed to. So I attempt to be open to various things.”
