Brazilian DJ, producer and multi-instrumentalist André Rech comes to Logia Records with “Astro Levitate”, a powerful EP in which he takes advantage of the solidity of a two-decade career in his artistic approach.
The EP features remixes by our own Cali Burton, currently based in Mexico, and Panko, a friend of the house, currently traveling between the Aztec country, Argentina and Brazil.
We have had the pleasure of interviewing André Rech and this has been the result.
Hello! Where can we find you right now? How did you start your day?
Hello Hello! Right now you can find me in the beautiful city of Zaragoza, where I grew up all my life, I have returned home after three years living abroad and the truth is that the tranquility of your home is appreciated.
And about my life I started at 8 in the morning getting up and going to work because for the moment music doesn't feed me, I emphasized 'for the moment', because the plan is that someday it will be my full time job, but well I'm going down the road haha, I went to work at the cafeteria and for the moment little more, a little nervous about everything that is coming in terms of EP release, videoclips, feedback from people...
When did the idea of launching a project like yours begin to take shape?
Well, the project began to take shape about a year ago after releasing 'Chusa' I wanted to release something more intimate, a more transparent facet about my life, my feelings, my experiences, dreams, nightmares ... so I was literally doing it while I felt different emotions and experiences, the truth is that this past year has been intense hahah.
Has it always been something you wanted to do?
It is not something I have wanted to do but the only thing I have known how to do without having to learn, since music has been part of me since I can remember, I have always told my mother 'when I grow up I will be a singer' and here I am with the same phrase stuck to my tongue. Music, as I can communicate clearly, is my therapy, is my rest, my hobby is my everything, so yes, I have always been turned by the music, I have always known that I wanted to be a singer was my vocation.
How would you define the sound of your latest work?
Chaotic, totally. Paranoia is a cry of despair and a cry of relief, I want the people who listen to it to finish listening to it and say 'fuck, what paranoia', I think it's the sound of a heart that has felt a lot and cries to the sky in search of answers. Spoiler; it's not an ep to be listened to as a chill ep because I think it has little chill in it.
What artists are you currently interested in?
It always makes me laugh when I am asked this question or which are my singers or genres in which I am inspired and I always say the same thing, one thing is what I sing and what I do and another very different thing is what I listen to and what interests me which is a little bit of everything and at the same time no one in particular, it depends on the moment, if you saw my list of favorites of spoty you would not be clear about anything, but well to say something right now as I writting this I'm listening to 'I believe to my soul by Ray Charles' although probably the song after will be ‘Alegría de vivir by Ray Heredia'.... Now more seriously, I listen to my Amy Winehouse of my heart, Black Pumas, Sault on the other hand we have Canelita, Manzanita, Rey Heredia, on the other hand Judeline, Bad Gyal, Rusowsky... lately I'm listening to a lot of French urban music, a little bit of everything I tell you it depends a lot on the mood I'm in, but I'm all the time listening to new music and getting to know new artists.
How do you manage to combine such disparate genres?
How do i manage it? I don't do it wanting trust me hahah... I think I still haven't found a genre of music with which I feel 100% or yes and I still haven't exploited it well, but I am literally trying everything that catches my attention and I see that I can do it, I am trying to squeeze and polish the essence that I want to be distinguished by... but there I keep trying genres... so I get nothing, rather I try, if it goes well well and if not I try another genre.
How do you manage to give them unity and harmony?
It's going to be very cursie what I'm going to say but with my heart literally... it's like feeling a feeling, let's say love, I can express love depending on the day with more calm and balance, more sadness, more illusion... but in the end it will always be a nexus which the person who is listening will say 'ah ok, I think that what I want to convey is love'... I don't know if I have explained myself well, but well, using 'Paranoia' as an example, I have tried to make it have a nexus that is the different stages that I have lived through this last year, such as love, heartbreak, empowerment, anxiety, illusions... and the harmony is thanks to the producers with whom I work, poor guys, I don't know how they do it but they look for a harmony in everything so that it doesn't sound like a scandal.
What do they have in common for you?
What they have in common is the impulse I have had to write a lyric and say 'look today I feel like this and when I think about it I hear this rhythm' and so on with all the songs, they are impulses not very thought out, but all made with the purity that it is real that what I sing I feel from the bottom of my heart and I enjoy singing it, even if it hurts.
How would you define your sound?
Strident sound. Disabling, shrill, intemperate, discordant, screeching and temperamental.
I think that although each song has its own genre and vibe, the sound of my voice is recognizable by how strident it is and that's why it's not so difficult to identify it.
Can you tell us something about your current or future projects?
Current; Paranoia and two videoclips.
Future; I don't even know what I'm going to have for dinner today, so as projects as such at the moment im vibing, but one thing is clear, this doesn't stop, and this time I'm not going to wait a year to release an Ep, but after returning to Spain I'm meeting a lot of people with whom I would like to start doing things, but time will tell. There will be many future projects in the long and short term, yes, what if I know what they are going to be yet? Maybe not hahaha.
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