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24/03/2010

Bla release their first album "La mejor enfermedad"

The best youth: L-KAN have given color to those interminable nights on the best techno-pop dance floors Madrid has to offer with albums like “Cosas Que Miden Poco” and “Discazo”. But the moment arrives to change direction, to open new doors, to try new things, and the irreverent immediacy turns into uncontainable restlessness. Luis and Belén (huge activists of the Madrid night-life, responsible for clubs like Ocho y Medio and Elástico) decide to form BLA (an L-KAN parallel project) to let loose all of those things that are going on in their heads, with music geared toward a more organic sound with slightly sharper lyrics. The first result of all this is “La Mejor Enfermedad”, an album that finds its two composers with much clearer ideas, with a new proposal in their hands, and with a highly uncommon ability with arrangements and melodies. From the fantasy of “Cómo Seremos” to the irreverence of “Los Exnovios”, from the delicacy of “Yo Soy Como Portugal” to the introspection of “Mira Lo Que Se Oye Cuando Estamos Callados”. From the totally obvious reference to the dance floor in “Siempre Hay Una Más” to the perfectionist pop of “La Canción Que Nunca Llegó a Serlo”. Luis and Belén have brought us something refreshing, original, new, and above all fun, assimilating their inheritance of those who are most representative of Spanish-sung pop: LOS FRESONES REBELDES, ASTRUD, FAMILY, CARLOS BERLANGA, CHICO Y CHICA and more. Everyone will be talking about BLA and their great sickness.

BLA’s album photos were done by Eduardo Rubaudonadeu, who was the artistic director for Zero magazine from its inception to its recent closing. He has photographed an infinite number of famous faces, from Jesús Vazquez to Olvido and Nacho [FANGORIA], as well as Zapatero, Amenábar, Boris Izaguirre, Paz Vega and a never-ending etc. Of course, these are not mere promo shots for the press, we’re talking about artistic photographs, with every last details cared for, planned and thought out in very different scenes and situations. Some of these photographs are published in the marvelous books “I Shoot Them” and “I Shoot Them, Too”. Eduardo is an extraordinary photographer who doesn’t limit himself to representing reality, he imagines and creates the photo in his head and then works on it carefully on his computer, creating and working each layer until he achieves the image he had imagined. The result is always spectacular, disturbing and disconcerting.

Eduardo, Luis and Belén had been trying to work together for a long time and BLA’s album, “La mejor enfermedad", was the ideal excuse to actually do it. Discussing it, they quickly reached the conclusion that the photos, somehow, had to be reminiscent of the Amish world, despite the fact that none of them could explain why they felt this. The images that were achieved are dreamlike and disturbing, a world in which Belén and Luis are ukulele collectors or Amish people in a lake with fish escaping from fluorescent water.