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TELEPHONE INTERVIEW WITH NUEVE TUERCAS IN "EL MAR DE LOS METALES"

October 19, 2015 on Radio Mirage

Interviewer: Carlos de la Fuente

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Well as I have the whole program announcing we will have here by phone to Miguel Laguna Crespo, the author of this music that is playing in the background and we will see if we say hello ... good night!

Hello, good evening, how are you!

Well nothing happy to have you here and tell us a little about this project that the truth that you have been sending a few issues to the station for a couple of years but we have heard little about you, so let's take advantage so that you can tell the listeners and tell us a little bit what this Nueve Tuercas project is, when it is born and what story is behind it

Well first of all say that many thanks for the interview and for having put the issues of "Historias de la calle de abajo" and some other project as was "Popurrí para banda No. 1" that at first came out as "Miguel Laguna Crespo" ... then It already came out as Nueve Tuercas on the new album. The case is that Nueve Tuercas begins in 2013 as a project that was going to put music to a radio space called "Rincon la Fábrica" ​​of Radio Enlace in Hortaleza that is my neighborhood, and that is after a time where I left Miguel y los Hesputos Mutantes with the album of "Transición: viajes y sombras", the one in which I'm getting into this of the Progressive Rock etc, (that I understand that it sounded in your program). It was 2011, and after that I was in crisis, I left the music and then I was re-engaged in 2013 and I started that Rincon la Fabrica program, which was all my own production. They were stories, like old radio theater, and there was everything, stories of horror, drama, much science fiction etc, and they are stories that can be heard out there too, and with respect to the music that accompanied, I came up with the name "Nueve Tuercas "and that was the excuse to say: good! this is going to be a group, and at the beginning it was not progressive Rock, the synths nº1, nº2 ... that were the ones that opened the radio program, because they were like a kind of After-Punk, so more sophisticated, with more keyboards, but that was getting closer to the progressive in the tuning nº2 etc, and then I was taking advantage of that for the first album of Nueve Tuercas. This is how the project begins, in which I am alone, as in Miguel y los hesputos Mutantes, but in the face of my being able to form a group that is what I have in mind in the near future.

Well tell us a little, that is, this is a project that you really do everything, you compose and record the music and all your own ... but, was born with the idea of ​​forming a band, of being able to take it to a live show? ... Which Is your idea like that in the future?

Yes, completely, let's see, as I tell you, this starts at the beginning of a project idea designed for radio, and in that program I put the Basureah themes, which was a Punk group I had at the beginning, Miguel y los Hesputos, and all this of Nueve Tuercas, plus the rest of its own production ... and then Nueve Tuercas comes out effectively as a project to be able to take it to live and be able to make more records, and thus have a well-grounded band, very solid ... I do not know very well that position would occupy but with respect to the voice, if there can be another one that sings better than me because much better, it is already, and right? because I also started singing there because there was no other to sing, and I recorded everything but the drums, which has been included in all the material of Nueve Tuercas (Discos, singles) with Protools drums, MIDI, but the rest of instruments, keyboard, bass guitars and voice everything I put, and good if it is thought for direct clear, to get rid of that thorn of Miguel y los Hesputos ... Nueve Tuercas should be a group in which to be able to make ideas together , people that we are united in the same roll and do what I had in mind ... that I will tell you

Well, let's see what you consider, "your roll" because when I've played it here, it's very difficult to define what Nueve Tuercas sound like ... a project that starts with After-Punk, has progressive keyboards at some point ... What are your influences? How do you define your music? If you can do it!

Sure, well ... let's see, I have it very clear my roll, especially with this album "Historias de la calle de abajo" ... for my Nueve Tuercas is a Progressive Rock group as is, huh? So I tell you, what happens that good, has, say, nature as it is normal, in all the evolution that I have been having, from Basureah that was a group of Punk, Eskorbuto style, and then "Miguel and the Hesputos ... ", which started with an After Punk album and finally went on to a more sophisticated roll in" Transición ... "but well, the fact is that I already broke with that and there was also evolution in Nueve Tuercas, if for example you listen the first album (called "Nueve Tuercas" as it was) released in 2014, because they were rehash that had Miguel y los Hesputos, and the song "Truenan" had a 7-minute symphonic version! that was a bit too much (pretty) and the album is cut, this work I've been listening to before to refresh and I say ¡Fuck !, lacked a specific vision, was a theme of Progressive Rock so very close, then there was Urban Rock , then an instrumental tuning ... but it did not end up being in the right direction ... then I took "Ojos inquietos", a single that I made quite embarrassing that ... Je! I remember it now and I say fuck ... it was a more pop song, then a rather poorly finished song like "Prisión" ... already in 2015 came "Hijos de Codicia" that had a bit more progressive, but it lacked to set the sound, until that I started to put with a second disc that has not come out at the end, called "Personajes" (which in the network is still announced) and was practically a work of pop, what happens that with some progressive song of which I have taken some scraps for "El Quijote de la avenida", I have done a recycling ... and what I was saying, I came out one day " Hijo del Barrio " and I told myself, okay! here is the new style and direction of Nueve Tuercas, I feel comfortable and it seems a bit of a fucking problem, because that way I will continue ... and yes, for me it is Progressive Rock ... my influences? Well, since I've been a child I've heard, King Crimson, Genesis ... after I was a teenager I went to Punk completely, The Clash, etc., and that's how I played for years, I made a record with Basureah called "Zona de guerra" in which there was a theme that my friends told me: Miguel! is that the end of this song seems like Genesis ... and maybe it was a beginning ... until in 2011 I got back to recover my roots of Progressive, with Emerson Lake and Palmer ... (My favorite Prog) and all the progressive of the 70s, the whole British batch, and the European one too, right ?, Camel, Gentle Giant ... in Turkey Asia Minor ... what happens that I already tell you with the sound nature of all that kind of way of seeing rock in a visceral way, that is, taking away intellectuality, and all that I like, but I decided to do something more urban, like a revision of the progressive, that's what I try to do and what I will achieve later with the following discs. the beginning really ...

Yes, the truth is that the mixture is quite curious and surprising perhaps is what I highlight most, right? ...

Well, I do not consider it a mix, for me the progressive is simply or complexly a style that removes the normal structures of Rock, right? And play with things that can be classical music, Jazz etc but not exactly that you have to imitate the same style always, no !, but you play there as you want, and then "Popurrí para banda nº1" for example, comes from Miguel y los Hesputos Mutantes and that's it, I think a good topic is the one you play with an acoustic guitar and you say, okay, this song is good, that is, it can be a group of three members and make Progressive Rock, fuck, you do not need to put three thousand keyboards or put three thousand layers (that it is my vision) it is not necessary to be so baroque, I see it more in terms of the structure of the song, a good composition, and also, of course, I have a lot of love for the pop of the 60s to those short songs of 2 minutes and I think that is very important, that is if you do not have that baggage, If you do not understand what a song is in two minutes, I think it's very difficult to consider a 20-minute song! It would be very complicated ... what I think is to bring an emotion to the listener transmit that feeling in two minutes and then can do a longer thing, I do not know if I will do a 20 minute topic I mean, there have even been people who have commented , "Well, your best in short songs" ha! but that's what everyone has in their heads, not everyone is Progressive Rock you know, a lot of people are going to progressive metal, but like the 70's I've known few people and also like it Punk less still ha!

Yes, that is, it is clear that the influences can be varied and that has nothing to do so that a result then becomes attractive ... I was going to ask you a little bit how you recorded it and you told us that you have taken care of all the instruments removing the drums that was drums of these programmed, How you have recorded it? At home? Have you opted for a studio? Has a friend helped you?

Yes ... I've recorded it at BlueCat Studios that is here in Hortaleza in the Canillas neighborhood, I recorded it there. And there I recorded everything, about Basureah, Miguel y los Hesputos ... I've recorded everything there. The first song I recorded was " Hijo del Barrio " with the exception of the "Popurrí" that what I did was a remix, ah! And the "Potpourri for band nº2" because of that album called "Personajes" that was going to come out, I recorded three songs, "Chiqui", "Sol de mi vida", and this one of "Popurrí para banda nº2", in the end I remixed it and I rescued for this "Historias de la calle de abajo”.

And then yes, I recorded it all in several sessions, and in a very short time, that is, it was a record that was recorded in two kicks, huh? And I did not want to record more, or make more shots because in quotes I wanted the album to sound as fresh as possible and then also ... how can I tell you ... I'm done with the budget Fuck and that's it and then I had to say: I'm getting this out and, I think that as step and transition of the new style of Nueve Tuercas has been quite defined for then the next album you have in mind. The same voice, in a very short time, there was even a moment that was not in my best conditions, "Don Quijote de la avenida" for example I remember ... these are things that you say you should not tell, but well, the fact is that He came out with the best quality and apart as a singer I repeat to you that if there could be another person who would sing then let him sing it, period. I always wanted to be a kind of Pete Townshend from Hortaleza when I was with Basureah, and that the other one next to me would sing, be the composer I mean and in the end I had to face singing my own songs as a singer-songwriter, but because I have not had another

As I told you, these months have been recorded and now resting the ideas for the next CD

Well for the time being in the middle you will do some promotion, interviews and that idea that you told me about being able to touch it in some way, right? What are your immediate projects?

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If then for the moment to promote everything you can interviews, etc, then I will remove it in physical support also to take it to Madrid or possibly send it to several radios in Spain, of all, right? an anecdote is that the "Transición: viajes y sombras" I sent to the Manticornio east of Mexico, and ¡bah! they told me: Thank you very much for sending it but we do not consider it Progressive Rock, that “Transición…” album "had very different criticisms, on the one hand the progressive people were shocked or they did not pay much attention to it, and the part of Punk where I came from Well, they took off from it directly, there was some radio program that I will not say what it is, they crumbled it to taste, a bunch of fools, and as I was saying, I'm going around the bush, I'll make a new album and new songs , and for now with this, because I promote everything I can, I can make a video clip, something, possibly I look for a band, and also dedicate myself to more things in my life, what interests me is that people go listening to tell me what you think, since today you do not believe that there have been many opinions, I also plan to release it in LP, this and the previous one, the "Nueve Tuercas", but well those are more long-term projects , the first thing is to cement the group and prepare a next CD that will come out for next year or for 2017 that will be a conceptual album, a kind of Opera-Rock taken to the progressive in which I want to throw all the meat in the Grill and we'll see how I put it , will surely be inspired by a story from Rincon la Fábrica called "Dentro de la guerra", which has not yet come out (the two would come at the same time Story and Disc separately) and then it is a second part of "Capturar y destruir al enemigo ", a story of Science Fiction, it will be an urban fantasy, and what I want is definitely that Nueve Tuercas sound like it deserves and make good songs, do not think that I think about it any more, to improve as a composer, as a musician, so that there is more instrumental height in that next work: "Dentro de la guerra", and also that it is longer, that it does not do as usual, cutting, I mean I want it to be a disc of about 40 minutes like the old LPs, I do not like it either to make some very long discs, but that there is a balance between direct and conceptual

Yes, what I wanted to tell you before is that your music is really shocking, is not it? to the people who have worn it for the first time, the truth is that you have to do an exercise of wanting to listen to it and of wanting to get inside, because we have always had a lot of prejudices, and that is what I told you at the beginning, many times it is unsettling because you see influences of different aspects that many people can find difficult ... we already know that we are all very gridded, and this progressive that you have developed is not the most trite, at least it has influences that can dislocate people but good ...

Tell us, where can you listen? so that people who want to do it, because at the moment this is only on the Internet (you said you intend to remove it) but where can you meet people to go soaking in your music and decide for themselves what they want? like and what not?

Well, you can listen to it on YouTube, there are all the issues that I have been taking with Nueve Tuercas, and also put Nueve Tuercas "Stories from the street below and download the link directly, another project is a website for the group or a blog, to give more orderly information, since I understand that this project seems out of nowhere and misplaces, and what you said, the style, this will improve and maturing, there are parts that can sound like metal, it's like a amalgam of colors, and directly there will be people who do not like it and nothing happens, period.

Through the Internet you can download, there is also a Facebook page of Nueve Tuercas with the news and news that are coming out, and ah! For Christmas I have another project in mind, a surprise, for early December I have a little ace up my sleeve.

Hey, can you give us something or leave it like that in the air?

Well it's going to be a topic that will hit a lot for those dates ... that's what I can advance you, it's a single taken to the progressive, then a surprise that is not so usual in the whole world, something related to the classic.

Well, that's where we left off, so you'll already have us informed and you know that we usually echo the most minority proposals and of course we'll support you and try to promote everything you can think of

Well, nothing, happy to have you here in the program, we will be closing the interview I think we have played everything playable, wish you well and will continue to sound here everything you write while it is interesting as that has been the case…

I understand, thank you very much Carlos and nothing then greetings to everyone out there.

Ok, so we're going to say goodbye, we're going to put " Hijo del Barrio " whole because the topic of the beginning we have stepped on with the interview so let's take advantage so that people can hear “Hijo del Barrio” completely

Yes, that is also like the single of the album, although it lasts 6 minutes, but I consider it the best song of this album, which apart, I think it's the best record of my career at the moment, come on, it's the most I like it, the one that seems to me most round in every way.

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Hijo del barrio

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INTERVIEW IN THE PROGRAM: "NOTAS DE AYER Y DE HOY" IN ONDA LATINA (RADIO)

14-11-2018

Interviewer: Jose Manuel Salamanca

Well, tell us a little, what is Nueve Tuercas , and what is this album that is playing now "A la sombra del Árbol"? How did it get here?

Well, first of all, I want to greet Latin Onda and "Notes of yesterday and today" to all listeners and thank you for this opportunity to present the album, and well, Nine Nuts is a musical project, formed in 2013 which already has three discs and this is the third "In the shade of the Tree". It also has a compilation and two singles. It has been a project of the most varied, the most chaotic, but also the most fruitful and this album “In the shade of the Tree” at the moment is the most satisfied I find and the one that seems to me the best of all until the moment.

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Well, what I've been seeing in the credits of the album is that, you've composed it, you say 80 percent in Peru

Yes, indeed, I was living in Peru for two years and two months, my partner is Limeña and it turned out that after the Historias de la calle album below, recorded in Madrid, a short time later I went to live in Peru, I was there for a while and then the Nine Nuts thing happened to another phase and I dedicated myself more to writing, because I had also had a radio program (In Spain) etc. What happened was that Nueve Tuercas had the opportunity to give the first concerts in Peru, gave three performances in Lima, and from the fruit of those performances has come the germ of "A la sombra del Árbol" then a mess began to mess to compose and to compose and then when returning to Spain because here I finished it and recorded everything.  So yes, Peru was an unforgettable experience and that illuminated this work a lot, you know, completely, both lyrically and musically, an essential experience for Nueve Tuercas.

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I see it, and the band for what it says in the credits is Víctor Lago as an engineer, have you produced it and recorded it all? All instruments, or do you have support musicians?

No, no, I have recorded everything except the battery that is by studio software, but well Victor Lake is the recording studio technician where I have recorded everything, and yes, I have put: bass, electric guitar, Spanish guitar, Voices and keyboards. I could have put the battery too that I have put in other times but this time to save time, since the budget has been very tight, because I preferred to do it this way.

Let's say you have cooked it, you have produced it and you do everything, nobody but you, right?

Yes, for now, until I form a band I hope that not long, for now I stew it and I eat it, so has been the tonic of Nine Nuts during these five years. Very well, now we are going to see if we put an entire topic because this is “In the shadow of the Tree” we have stepped on it with the interview and then you yourself if you recommend us to put it we click it right now, tell me which Well, precisely "It is not a dream", I could tell you that it is a song that already part of another previous project that I had: "Miguel y los hesputos mutantes" but this time I have adapted it to the new style of Nine Nuts and this new one stage that begins with “In the shadow of the Tree”

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Well, let's hear this whole song and then continue with the interview

Perfect

It's not a dream 

Thus ended this theme of Nine Nuts: "It's not a dream", and well Miguel when you composed this theme, what did you get inspired by?

Well, specifically this song, I already told you that it was part of "The Nightmare", which was a record of another band, it was not a band! It was also me alone, his name was Miguel and the mutant hesputos, and I did the album in 2010. But this song itself musically was quite different from the version of "In the Shadow of the Tree." I was inspired to say that, since lately the line of Nine Nuts had been of a Progressive Rock quite personal but quite varied, then it has had to influence a little the Andalusian Rock, the Urban Rock, a little to the best even of classical music, and All of this could have been influences in one way or another. Also the After-Punk, the Punk, but Nueve Tuercas after all, as all the songs he does are his own, he doesn't think about external influences, he drinks himself.

Very well, and I wanted to ask you your influences, I previously told you about some groups that I thought they could have inspired you but I would like to ask you, for example what I ask other groups, if you had to recommend three artists or three discs and you were indispensable, what for example would they be ?, I don't care whether nationals or foreigners

Come on, well, I'm going to tell you, look, in Spain, Triana, for example, abroad because I'm going to put you in England, a Punk band not very famous but very good: The Ruts were called, they only released one album but It is exceptional and UK Subs for example, which is also a very good British Punk group

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In other words, you move from Punk plus Punk in addition, and eighties, to what is the National Symphonic Rock

I, the first band I had called Basureah (between 2004 and 2009) was a very radical Punk band, but then at the same time it was very eclectic and had very different musical tastes and that has meant that the evolution of Basureah led to Miguel and the mutant hesputos and in the end to Nine Nuts. Already Basureah for the time being generated some songs that in embryo were already Progressive Rock despite being Punk, that's why the concept I have with Nine Nuts is very different from what people can later say about Nine Nuts. I don't see (and I think the musicians I've had at some point didn't see it that way either) clashes between one style of music and another no. But that Nine Nuts uses, me and all those musical styles to get away with it and to materialize in these albums, then Punk can be transformed into Progressive directly, yes! They can become and end up being a child of each other, depends on the time when you leave

I see a very eclectic posture of yours very middle and to take many influences, it is very positive, I wanted to tell you to see, another issue that you want us to hear here

Well look you could put Versos al atardecer, that could be, it is the introduction of the album and the one that sets the standard for the listener to find out a little about what is “A la sombra del Árbol”

Well, let's hear it, Versos al atardecer

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Versos al atardecer