Chemistry is magical. Just ask Heisenberg. Its laws constantly defy the logic of what we call common sense, and open doors to new worlds that are hard to explain, but absolutely fascinating. And music? Music is magic. Nobody knows what type of frequencies move our insides, and why it takes them to such great heights, but neither physics nor specialized critics can explain the reasoning they follow and that provoke such emotional chaos. And what happens if you mix chemistry and music? Oh, my friends, oh my… Don’t wait for us to explain it, after these lines to present this album. We’ll just help you set some precedent: Lee Hazlewood and Nancy Sinatra, Kathleen Brennan and Tom Waits, Marvin Gaye and Tammi Terrell, Isobel Campbell and Mark Lanegan, Jane Birkin and Serge Gainsbourg, Bobbie Gentry and Glen Campbell… Something similar has occurred with Maria Rodés and David Rodríguez. It is hard to define, but it gives us the feeling that on “Contigo”, their first album, everything flows, everything works, everything is in the right place, balanced, exciting.

We can’t forget the important work of the (please allow me here) chaperone, Sergio Pérez (SVPER, PEGASVS, THELEMÁTICOS), who has done a titanic job on production and who plays almost all the instruments. In recent years, Sergio has stood out for his tremendous work as a producer. Joe Crepúsculo, LA BIEN QUERIDA, MUJERES, CHUCHO, Lidia Damunt, CARIÑO, PAPA TOPO, SIBYL VANE, LOS PUNSETES, CABIRIA and dozens of key albums from the last decade. And in this case, he somehow makes the twelve songs on this album connect the most characteristic aspects of our protagonists’ individual careers: a sense of humor, sensitivity, imagination, tenderness, irony… Don’t make us tell you which belongs to whom; we’re not completely sure. With a costumbrist air and an eye towards country. And so, so much chemistry. It is a conceptual album about a relationship that begins and ends, but above all it is an album that has the ability to talk about love and beautiful things honestly, with touches of irony, without pretense or empty tropes, staying away from sentimentalism and suffering. They are so transparent they are like water you want to swim in for the rest of your life.

“Contigo” is nothing more and nothing less than the product of two of the most representative and personal names on the Spanish indie scene, where together, they strengthen each other’s virtues and make them shine, where they show us who they are as musicians, as story-tellers, as creators. Where the math doesn’t make sense – the sum of one + one becomes some unresolvable unknown. Because, didn’t you know it, math is also magical.

Contigo

Lo Que Yo Quería

La Última Vez

Zombi (Album Version)

Milagro

Eres

Venga Va

Un Mundo Ideal

Viernes

Lo Que Venga Ya Vendrá

Hacer El Amor

Cumbres Borrascosas

Maria Rodés Y La Estrella de David

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