In an end to her intense musical agenda, which is referred to several regions of the country, the former bassist of the legendary Seru Giran took time to talk about his poetry. "Two tickets to the Night" is his second book will soon be in bookstores in November and bring him back to Chile to
By Macarena Candia / Juan Pablo Belair
each end of autumn for a couple of years, Pedro Aznar visits our country to sing to his loyal, dedicated and ever more expansive public Chile. On this occasion will visit several regional capitals: Concepción, Temuco, Valdivia, Puerto Montt, Calama, Antofagasta, Valparaíso and Puerto Montt with his double album Broken . A production as he himself said " is the one with more songs that were born as poems and then put music, and not vice versa."
And this writing is not new to Peter, from his childhood always kneaded, folded ideas and turned them into poetry, but it was only in 1992, encouraged by friends and some writers decided publish his poems in the book Fire tests. " I was a bit apprehensive with a kind of modesty, a sense of nakedness " says former member of Pat Methany Group adds, "Fire Tests was a very interesting experience by an internal process (...) Publish a book of mine is to lose the fear of growing up in public is what you end up doing all the time when dedicated to communicating through art. You're growing up in public, you're making your process painful or happy in the public eye, and it has its difficulties and particular incidents, but also has its advantages! ".
- What took 17 years in publishing your second book?
was for a number of circumstances. Not that I have written enough to publish in those years, in fact I did. It was a little disappointed by the editorial market. As this publication had been induced from the outside and although it was very happy, Editorial Planeta made not renew the contract with me their enthusiasm cooled somewhat. I kept writing to me and spent years in which there was no proposal and said, well, ok, return poetry to be what it was before you post: a mine, a tool to know, to discover, to understand.
- How was conceived, then, two passages at night?
casually, a little destinal. Speaking with Diego Rafecas film director A Buddha which I did the music, I said the co-producing his film and his best friends were the owners of the Editorial Longseller
- What is this book?
Two passages in the night there are three major areas: one that has to do with my dialogue with the external landscape, one that is as rites of passages, as evidence now hinges, and the third, which is the other side of things, a little dark side, are poems that speak more loss of purpose in death. The poems are divided into three sections: the first entitled This dayside, the second passages and Del last night across .
Despite its serious, concentrated look Peter acknowledges not having a way to write, much less a place of inspiration, just her poetry springs from a dream, a thought, anyway and anywhere. The morning of the interview wrote one over breakfast. " I woke up and started to talk and think about a few things and I realized it was a good title and the title started to pull that thread and came to the poem." Something similar happened with asymmetry, an issue of Broken that once recorded in one take and that virtually wrote the piano and recorded at the same time.
However, despite that he does not like to correct what has already been created to
- In your musical career has produced albums for various artists and even went TU producer at Broken , what was then working with an editor of your literary work?
was an excellent job, Marcelo was a great editor, has really helped me to focus on the language, to leave the substance and not miss much in Baroque style. In some cases we agreed not others, we fight a lot. There were instances in which I said 'I will not move from here because I speak so because I think so and because I write well and I need to recognize in the text. " There were also many instances, he made suggestions that were atinadísimas and have allowed me to incorporate that critical eye in the best sense of the word, that look wisely critical about what I write, which is comparable to the music producer on a disk.
- What is the difference between this book and fires tests?
Fire tests is a book and using the word fire is talking about something that generates light and Two tickets to the night is talking about dark. Not necessarily dark about the dark side of things, not all the book goes through there, too There are bright moments. But the night as a metaphor, a place, as I find, as the end of something, like the other place of things, as the reverse of the coin.
"Whitman is my uncle and my dad is piola Neruda
If someone wanted to know the essence musician, composer, multi instrumentalist (guitar, bass, keyboards) producer and Argentine poet, just enough to read carefully the letter of his songs and poetry. Aznar as recognized by about 90% as the speaker's lyrical poetry and in everything he does, his music, his poetry and lyrics. Go discography of Peter is to review its evolution from life in which we recognize as a recurrent feature of his work that "catalyst for the experience and courage, and what drives the leap into the void, the quantum leap, going to into the next " says after thinking and move their eyes in a circle for a while.
The lyrics of the songs from Aznar, since "Paranoia and Solitude" (The fat of the capital, Seru Giran, 1979), through "Body and Soul" while making a conceptual hinge to "Broken" his latest work, notes an evolution of concepts expresses the author's life.
would you rate your writing as politics, committed or perhaps a mystic poet, zen?
living three things. The political world in the broad sense of the word, how to imagine one that could be living in the world and what is the role that one would like to play as a citizen of that world and what things one would look good and evil and what proposals you have and what things will amaze and has no answers to give. Another perspective is the inner labyrinth of the trappings of personality, of the pitfalls that self is put to its growth and self-acceptance. Another is a vision of the transcendent, that which speaks without speaking, that which sustains us in the palm of your hand.
- In the Chilean poets you know, how do you identify and what emotions they convey?
Neruda is what gave me being, "he says between laughs. My father is poetic
- What Whitman moreover but not Chile?
Whitman is .... Piola "in Chile is said when someone is knowledgeable and is as a companion, someone who is experienced and world, using that word?, Yes? Then Whitman piola is my uncle and my dad is Neruda. Neruda began to read in adolescence and was revealing. I remember reading the odes and that was an awareness that poetry is not just talk about things mystical and other worlds in this world. In the ode to french fries is a deep beauty in the everyday. With Neruda understand that daily life is also poetry in their teens and that was a revelation, I realized that poetry is not forbidden topics.
also wrote a few tenths for the title track of the Chilean Elizabeth Morris, how did you feel about that experience?
was the third stanza, yes, I felt good because it was a challenge to get into a song that was done, finished and try to capture the same sense, the same sensations, there is a temperature. Elizabeth was very generous and helped me in this process.
"I'm not yet with enough poise as a writer"
Despite having overcome the fear of publishing his poetry, poet Aznar is located in another perspective, is not the virtuoso musician who makes and breaks which creationist.
"In Broken, unlike the book, I feel that I was a very good producer with what I self compelled to do things that I had not done before. To make this album I decided to take a different role and look at me as a performer and composer from another location. Disc 1 All Broken have that, do not fuck with whining, does not stop at any price, although a bill has very dedicated and very meticulous, which is an imprint of what I do in general, does not walk punches. For example, when you have to be brutal, brutal. Broken is the album of my career that makes a very different pattern arises because most a need to say that a musical. "
- You were also lyricist as in the song "Love and let go" because the music is by Andrew Beewsaert.
Andrew gave me the demos, to compose together and one of the songs I chose was this musically is almost identical to the demo will only add the final coda good and I wrote the letter I loved being a lyricist!. I said this is the metric and this has to have a letter Ok, and how I speak, of this, OK, come on. And he went out as I write a poem, in spurts, ruuuuum and ready. Although for Broken not hired an external music producer, I joined this role and heard me talking to myself: "I will not be allowed to return to your old ways, this is something else." In the case of the book, I am still with enough aplomb writer to unfold in my own editor, I felt that I was not leather, it is very difficult. So I found a traveling companion, a guide around here tell me yes.
East to meet in July 50 years Aznar says with a laugh that to publish his third book will not take another 17 years and will not be his new dream of the return " because I am not way back, I'm still traveling to go! ".
Peter, thanks for your probably unconscious act of magic. Being with you, talk about music, poetry and silence has been the realization that the soul as dreams are possible. In Salieri I dedicate your version of a song dedicated to a major poet and fit for where we dream. To listen click here .
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