The second is better than the first

After touring the stages of festivals such as the BBK throughout the summer and with their sights set on next February 20, when they will perform at the Movistar Arena in what will be their largest concert to date, Alcala North has chosen the intimacy of the Copernicus room to present his second album. An exclusive meeting with the media and friends of the industry in which the people of Madrid offered an appetizer of “Let’s leave it as it was.”recently published and of which until now we had only been able to hear two previews: “El Hombre Planeta”, “Los Llamados Pitagéricos” and “El Endemoniao”.

The cover, inspired by Goya and conceived after a visit to the Prado Museum archives, was also present on stage, projecting its particular imagery onto the room. Between lights and shadows, Alcala North He outlined eight of the eleven songs that make up the new work. Rivas, faithful to his habit of speaking little between songs, gave way to some of the songs with brief comments that revealed some of the multiple literary and philosophical references that run through the album.

“In Valmy”, responsible for opening the album, also opened the night. It was followed by “El Endemoniao”, inspired by Nietzsche, and then came “Oscar (The Tiny One).” “We are very Cervantes, but now comes one of Shakespeare,” Rivas announced before performing this song in English. With his characteristic cryptic gaze, the vocalist continued touring the universe of the album with “Los Llamados Pitagéricos” and “El Contador De Muertes”, during which he came down from the stage to organize a conga among the audience.

There was also room to recover its more international facet. If in “Los Chavales”, one of the songs from his first album, he had already demonstrated his linguistic skills, this time Rivas brought out his French with “Icare (LFDL)2, a version of a song by the French fine heavy metal group Les Fils de Lucifer. The critical triad of usury, hate markets and nihilism also found its space on stage. The tour continued with “Campos De Golf”, a satire on rentism, gentrification and the privatization of land, and “The Planet Man”, which recovers the imagery of Paganini’s pact with the devil himself.

For the final stretch, and despite the requests of the public, who demanded songs like “Los Chavales” or “El Guerrero Marroquí”, Alcala North chose to give away once again “La Calle Elfo”, “Westminster”, with its usual pogo opened by Carlos Elías, and “La Vida Cañón”, “to no one’s surprise”. Barbosa, for his part, brought to the stage two elements that have already become hallmarks of his live performances: the laurel wreath and a bottle of red wine that, after taking the first drink, he shared with the audience.

“We couldn’t imagine releasing even one more song, let alone another album,” confessed the drummer to the applause of the room. All the members of the group and even some people in the audience agreed: “The second is better than the first.”

On this occasion, the meeting served to discover a good part of their new universe live, although they were left pending “Claudia”, “Arturo Soria” and “The New Sale”three of the songs that complete an album that is now available on all platforms.