In the framework of the 17th edition of AIEnRuta - Instituto Cervantes programme organised with the Spanish Association Interpreters and Executant Musicians (AIE) for the international promotion of Spanish emerging music, an Indian tour with artist Le Parody accompanied by trumpet player Frank Santiuste will take place through two concerts in Dharamshala, and one workshop and concert in New Delhi.
Le Parody will be presenting her latest album Remedios (Everlasting Records, 2024).
About the album: Remedies are no longer sought. Solutions are pursued, urgent measures, but not remedies. Remedios sounds like something from another era: old, slow. "How monstrous is haste, and the protest that tames." From the beginning of her new album, Le Parody has defended that denser concept of time. In the face of urgency, Remedios.
The logic of hyperproductivity applied to creation does not align with Le Parody's philosophy. Five years have passed since Porvenir (2019), the most complex and profound album by the Andalusian composer and producer. Half a decade marked by a pandemic and the intensifying heat of the climate crisis—two milestones that do not go unnoticed in Remedios. It is an album where we are dazzled by synthetic suns, where we can lie down in polyethylene gardens, and where hyper-lit nights offer no respite.
If in Porvenir, Sole Parody sought to express complex emotions through simple words, in Remedios, she has labored to do the opposite—searching through language to tell simple stories. This is her most carefree album; it is Le Parody’s most joyful work. She acknowledges that it is the first time she hasn’t suffered while making an album, and the rhythm that governed it has a lot to do with the lightness that permeates the songs. Whereas for Hondo (2015), her second album, she cocooned herself in the silence of a solitary house in the middle of an olive grove in Jaén, the silence that accompanied Remedios’ gestation was of a very different, more fragile kind: that of a house where a baby sleeps.
In those unpredictable moments, Sole Parody wrote the lyrics for Remedios, and in doing so, she reversed her creative process. In this album, the verses guided the music, rather than the other way around. Through them, she sought to answer a question: how will we inhabit the post-apocalypse? There is genuine curiosity in that question: how will we dress? What will folklore look like? And most importantly, what will the good life look like in the apocalypse? Remedios might seem like a celebration of dystopia, but it is simply a way of living through it. The great remedy is a verbena.