Bizarre Love Triangle: "Destroying the Ministry of Culture is a wrong and very pale measure"

The Galician band publishes their sixth album, 'Sed', in which they reflect on the "pressure" that focuses on "the search for success"

   MADRID, 20 Jun. (EUROPA PRESS) -

The Galician indie band Triángulo de Amor Bizarro, which is releasing its new album, 'Sed' (Mushroom Pillow), this Friday has claimed the culture sector as "vital" in Spain and Europe, for which it has criticized the proposal of the PP leader, Alberto Núñez Feijóo, to abolish the Ministry of Culture as an independent department.

"Blowing down the Ministry of Culture is an electoral measure, wrong and very pale, with my pardon", asserted the band's guitarist and vocalist, Rodrigo Caamaño, in an interview with Europa Press, in which he stressed that just like that of Culture "needs" the Ministry of Equality.

For the member of the Galician group, the measure is "so absurd" and raised "without any kind of head", that he does not believe that the PP will carry it out if it manages to form a government after the general elections on July 23.

In this sense, Caamaño has vindicated culture as a tool that "gives people weapons to be able to decide, to know when they are deceiving you, when they are telling you the truth, to know".

"And knowledge is the only thing that humans have against the forces of the system", he added, to state that in the face of the "charge of the right against culture", the best thing would be for the left to win, although he has pointed out that the current Government "has many things to improve" in relation to the cultural sector.

Regarding 'Sed', the sixth studio album by the band also made up of Isabel Cea (bass and vocals), Rafael Mallo (drums) and Zippo (guitar and keyboard), Caamaño has stressed that it is a "very emotional " about "stardom, music and art".

Through a dozen cuts, in which they combine a more pop style in songs like 'Lone Star' with their characteristic rock sound, Triángulo de Amor Bizarro delves into the "social and system pressure that leads to always seeking success" and "not being able to enjoy work", specifically creative and artistic work.

The group thus points to declining stars, fame or money in relation to the music industry, while reflecting on their own career -effect of the "gap" of the pandemic- and the passage of time, as as Caamaño has explained.

All this, he has assured, is done without a "revanchist" attitude and by creating "slightly evil characters" with whom the public can "identify" in some way.

In this sense, the guitarist from Triángulo de Amor Bizarro has pointed out that in the music industry there are many people who love the sector, but there is also "a lot of dehumanization". "In the end, the platforms mean that we are all numbers, that we are all a good profile picture and little else. It is something that has always been there and that in recent years has been more exaggerated," he specified.

"We no longer give human qualities to many of the people who suddenly become stars, who succeed wildly. And I think that social networks are a bit toxic for that, people lose empathy," he added.

Thus, he has warned that an "ultra-people-devouring model" currently prevails in the music industry, the "kind of crusher" that "the culture of success" has become, in his opinion: "There is a very dehumanizing in all of that, in the platform culture itself."

Regarding the irruption of Artificial Intelligence also in music, Caamaño has lamented that its use for "completely economic and industrial" objectives, "takes away from the human being one of the most important things, which is to be able to have an artistic expression". "It is a simulation of an artistic experience, but it is not art at all", he has sentenced.

In this sense, he has defended the "purely artisanal" art exercised by Triángulo de Amor Bizarro, who records his records in his own studio in a Galician town: "For a group like ours, AI is not interesting because it would take away just what which is the fun part of the process."

After almost two decades of experience, the group, which has won the Noise Award from the specialized press up to two times --for 'Triángulo de amor bizarro' in 2020 and for 'Salve discordia' in 2016--, has also managed to overcome the obstacles that may have arisen in joint work. "We are friends and we still like to make music", the guitarist stressed in this regard, to emphasize that "not paying too much attention to the trends that come and go" helps.

"There is no formula to continue together, just follow our own path and try to make our art in the best way we can, that is music with authorship, a bit personal, and respect our public", he concluded.

Just this Friday, June 23, when 'Sed' will be released, the Galician band will have the opportunity to present it at Tomavistas, in Madrid, one of the many festival dates they have this year, where they will also play in rooms. "We encourage people to go not only to one big festival a year, but also to local events and venues. The music is diverse," Caamaño concluded.