Between two lands. Between La Coruña and Buenos Aires. Between Paris and Venezuela. Xoel López's and La chica's are stories of uprooting. Of journeys - physical and sonorous - across the Atlantic, enriched by musical styles from different latitudes, fusing the Latin with the European. Two fascinating voyages.
The more diverse his music has become, the more it has also become his own. This is the blessed paradox that defines the career of Xoel López from A Coruña. He began more than twenty years ago leading Elephant Band and then captaining Deluxe, projects in which he showcased his vision of Anglo-Saxon roots pop. But everything changed from "Atlántico" (2013), already published under his own name: he began to look across the ocean, to soak up Latin American folk and to find his richest version in nutrients and nuances, reflecting his condition of traveler, sound adventurer, in a turn recognized with the award for Best National Artist in the 2013 Independent Music Awards. A path that has continued steadily until "Caldo Espírito" (2023), a fifth solo album as unprejudiced, honest, raw and confessional as usual in him, produced by the renowned Carles "Campi" Campón and with collaborations of Meritxell Neddermann or Marina and Teresa, from Repion.
La Chica is the creative name of Sophie Fustec, a French-Venezuelan artist who has always declared herself as much a lover of Radiohead or the Beatles as of Ravel or Debussy. The album "La Loba" (2020), dedicated to her late brother, was a serious warning of everything she could offer: female empowerment, stark spirituality and a practically shamanic spell in songs like "Agua", "La Loba" or "Drink", imbued with a minimalism that highlights the essential, the pure and hard talent that does not understand borders, neither geographical nor stylistic, and that augurs a torrential live performance. The content of "Loba" (2020) was remixed in 2022 by Form, Montoya, Fakear and other producers of the French electronic scene.
