2023-09-22 08:46:00
Blood Burns returns to the Upper Valley, this time, to play in Neuquén. Almost two years after their first visit, when they performed at Cipolletti and the project of the former Carajo, Corvata and Teri, had only a handful of months of filming, the quartet that includes Luciano Farelli on guitars and Nacho Benavides on drums, will offer his powerful set in Pirkas (Santiago del Estero 833), this Saturday night. The doors will open at 7:30 p.m. with Detox as the guest band. Tickets are on sale at Flipper and Croma and online through entranceuno.com.
When in mid-January 2020, Carajo announced on his networks that he had ceased to exist, and with Covid about to hit humanity’s neck, Marcelo Corvalán, Corvata for everyone, he was confined in a field in Entre Ríos. Guitar in hand and nature (and quarantine) through him he began to find new sounds, chords that he had not visited until then. He immediately knew there was something there.
In Corvex mode, he started working alone, not so much because he wanted to but because we were all locked up due to the pandemic. So, virtual, Blood Burns nation. First, he met Luciano Farelli; Then, he reunited with his old partner Teri. There were already three… tempting. But this time it was going to be four. The last to join was going to be the drummer Ignacio Benavides, who was going to take the place of Andrés Vilanova, the absent Carajo.
First by Zoom and then, although little by little, in person, Burning Blood began to take real shape until they become a powerful quartet of heavy music, with lush guitars, but that also allows them to “lower” climates and travel different melodic paths.
“We are now going to separate ourselves from the bands where each one comes from,” Corvata acknowledged to RÍO NEGRO Diaryat the end of October 2021. Almost two years later, the bassist and singer recognizes that they are at their best: “Month by month we are gaining miles (laughs).” The band has been touring the country for almost all this time and seeing how people are much clearer about their songs and have learned the repertoire. “That is also a way of seeing our growth,” he highlights.
In a new dialogue with RÍO NEGRO Diary, Corvex points out: “We were gaining our own sound, our own style and we now understand a little more where our originality comes from, which is the combination of the four of us. Each one settled in a little better on a musical level and as if we flow, live and with the composition of new songs. We were finding a place that, although it was born from heavy, metal stuff, is taking a more modern sound direction with touches of the 90s and with half-electro eighties influences.” Beyond all this, they are a heavy rock band, clarify just in case.
The first thing about Arde la Sangre was “El beginning”, an EP of live sessions released in May 2021. The first album arrived a few months later, in October, when they released “La cura”, which earned them a Gardel Award for Best Album Heavy Rock/Punk. “Breaking silences”, an EP released in 2022, is the latest from the band, which is already working on an upcoming album.
“We are writing very fully and we already have a song recorded, we are putting together a video clip that we plan to release at the end of October,” he warns. “It is the first of a few that we are going to show as a preview of the new album that will be released next year. “First we are going to release two or three singles throughout the remainder of this year and the beginning of next year.” Without giving further details about it, Corvex commented: What we are composing now is very different, it has its own color, its own voice. Very power and very aggressive, other musical searches.”
Corvata and the long road to the voice
After twenty years of being part of power trios, Corvata is leading a quartet or, in his words, “surrounded by a wall that surrounds me” (laughs), referring to Teri and Luciano’s guitars. “They provide another layer of sound that adds to the musical aspect, which is very good. Luciano is very complete, he contributes a lot not only with the guitar, but with production and technique when recording; and in the composition he gives it a more sentimental, more melodic touch that is complemented by Teri.”
This led Corvata to reformulate his role as a singer and also to enjoy it. “I learned to enjoy it over time because at first I was always a bassist and then life led me to be the singer of Carajo. And I didn’t feel completely prepared.” But now things are different, Corvata assumes himself as a singer as well as a bassist, but it was not a miracle, of course: he has been studying singing for more than ten years, he learned breathing techniques with a great teacher like Nicolás Amato, who helped him in a fundamental aspect: understanding oneself as an instrument. “Unlike guitars or bass, you can change the strings, but not with the voice. He taught me to know who he was and once I learned that there I started to enjoy it. But it took several years until it happened. Only after recording ‘El Mar de las Almas’ with Carajo did I feel that I was more comfortable and that I knew myself and in some way I started to enjoy it. That’s why with Arde I have enjoyed it from the first moment.”
“When you compose you let yourself be carried away by inspiration and then you say ‘oops! why I sang so high, why didn’t I leave more space between verses ‘(laughs) Today I realized that I am a singer already from the composition,’ she summarizes.
After twenty years being the voice of a band like Carajo, it is difficult to think of a project that includes him and does not have him as the lead singer. However, Corvata does not think the same. Or at least he didn’t think so. “When Carajo started I didn’t want to sing, we were composing and we were looking for a singer, he didn’t appear and then there was no other choice. At that moment, Andy and Teri trusted me, they told me I had the money (laughs) to get started and I went for it. Later, with Arde la Sangre I thought again about looking for a singer and everyone told me no!!! (laughs). But I am respectful of the projects and what is best for the band. If it is best for someone else to sing, let them do it, otherwise I will take charge. Even today I still ask beforehand if there is someone who can do it better than me.
ANIMAL and Carajo, the two bands from Corvata, were the soundtrack and resistance of two complex eras in the country. With the first he went through the Menemist, dollarized, privatized, individual(ist) and neoliberal decade and with the second he had to surf the desperate disintegration of the time he lived with the first shouting for everyone to leave. It seems that Arde la Sangre is not doing any differently. You could say that you have to live those two times at the same time: what a time to get your blood burning. “That’s why we sing what we sing,” reflects Corvata. “Otherwise we would be singing flowers and butterflies and happiness ha ha ha ha.”
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