Lucas Vidal. Styling: Nirave
WITH COMPOSER LUCAS VIDAL THROUGH THE GOBI DESERT
The topic of presenting artists with a (bland) list of their awards –in this case, an Emmy, two Goyas– and their star collaborations –with the usual “of the stature of...”– does not work to describe a Lucas Vidal.
As far as this man from Madrid is concerned, it is easier to point out the clueless in the room than he is the one who has raised the hairs of millions of people with his new anthem for LaLiga de Fútbol.
Producing this effect is not new to him, as it takes since 2013 doing three quarters of the same thing, at the stroke of a score for a trailer, with his company ChromaMusic: from the heavyweights like interstellar from Nolan to those of phenomena such as The Hunger Games or the series Elite.
Lucas Vidal in a coat and turtleneck, both by Hermès. Styling: Nirave
At this point in the film, chatting with this applauded composer on the other side of the Atlantic and halfway around the world, The eternal underlined that in Spain, too, there is talent, does not come to mind either.
Perhaps it is a little surprising that Lucas, who just moved his house in L.A. for his native Madrid, he confesses that he is not especially a movie buff. Although this did not prevent him from having a blast adding musical emotion to the sixth installment of Fast and Furious, The Raven's Riddle (John Cusack) or the thriller of Bruce Willis, Sigourney Weaver and Henry Cavill The day's cold light , for which he recorded for the first time with orchestra in the legendary Abbey Road studio. “I was very young and I couldn't believe it. He was very nice”.
This month saw the light of his first album, a fusion of orchestrated and electronic music called Karma which has been released by Paragon, a sub-label of Verve, and of which we were able to enjoy a preview this summer with the video clip of Run , starring Maria Pedraza.
“My intention is that can be heard both in an auditorium or in a theater as well as at an electronic festival” , he explains to us.
During years, Lucas has traveled non-stop for professional reasons. "He would take 15 or 20 planes a year, to ** New York, London, kyiv, Prague, Brussels ... ** Now I want to do it for pleasure."
His dream is to meet the gobi desert: “I am attracted by peace, silence, the opposite of what we are used to here. And the cultural part, the silk route, the proximity to Russia, China and Kazakhstan. It must also be a mysterious place, there Fossils over 100,000 years old have been found. dinosaur eggs and even UFOs have been seen! There you disconnect yes or yes. I wouldn't take my cell phone, maybe some book on anthropology or the history of the place, although later I have a memory like a fish and I forget everything...”.
**WITH ROOM MANAGER SARA MORENO TO BURMA **
This 33-year-old woman from Salamanca longs for “the sound of the little birds” in her hometown and, therefore, when she travels, she seeks out nature.
The head of the Media Ración room, at the Urso hotel in Madrid, She leads a “slightly stressful” life in the capital that keeps her in constant learning. “My day to day is very intense. With Javi (Estévez, chef at La Tasquería and her husband) We have been non-stop for a year, every weekend a work trip or an event. We were recently in Ezcaray for the 25th anniversary of Francis (Paniego) and Luisa (Barrachina). We had a great time – we even rented a mechanical bull! – But of course, we're dead”, she jokes.
Sara Moreno, with a cape by Beatriz Peñalver, a floral dress and Juan Vidal shoes; ethnic skirt from Uterqüe; and sequin bags by Laia Allen.
Gastronomy and sport, trekking to be exact, They are protagonists in the pleasure trips of this couple. "I don't like to organize them too much, except the restaurants I want to try, I do plan that. We just went to Japan and I prepared an Excel beforehand”.
Your favorite souvenir? “I like to calm down, sometimes I feel that I live a lot towards the client, I forget who I am”.
And it is that to work in the dining room, this young woman explains to us that she was a cook (and waitress) before she was a friar, you have to know how to communicate and you have to like "eating, living and knowing how to make dishes".
Sara lived in Melbourne for a year – “It was my great trip. They are very happy there, they work just enough and they are super enjoying themselves ”– and she landed again in Spain in the middle of the crisis, specifically in La Gabinoteca.
For her, the current challenge of gastronomy is fidelity. "It's a bit scary to see all the openings in Madrid, it's more difficult to convince the diner to come back."
In Media Ración they want to achieve it with simplicity. “A few years ago it was time for spherifications, smoke, very long menus... you had to think a lot. Now it's like being at home, we let the customer decide. How about a steak with potatoes? Don't worry, I'm going to do it for you."
While he dreams of his own restaurant (with three tables and a tiny bar), he also fantasizes about exploring Burma. “There they are very connected with nature. I would like to do the route from kalaw to inle lake crossing the rice fields, in addition to visiting all the temples that have been and will be. It would be great see the pagodas from a balloon, but I have a vertigo that kills me”.
Of the gastronomic culture attracts you the Burmese ability to “turn rice into something wonderful” with ingredients fished or hunted by themselves.
ON ROUTE 66 WITH THE ACTOR IGNACIO MATEOS
since we saw Ignacio Mateos on stage playing one of the rapists of 'La Manada' in pack, we wanted an excuse to chat with him. And the fact is that we suspected, because of his hard work under the command of Miguel del Arco and because of his incursions into such interesting titles as Who will sing to you (Carlos Vermut), that he's not one to get scared. He confirms it for us: he likes to get muddy –also literally, she loves to make pottery–, and doing so has brought her very good things.
Thanks to this theatrical project he will travel this year to Montevideo and Costa Rica, and begins to tour all over Spain this month. “We have functions from Tuesday to Sunday, there are school campaigns... it has been a real discovery”.
Ignacio Mateos, with a jacket and turtleneck sweater by Ermenegildo Zegna and a checked shirt by Sandro. Styling: Nirave
The Malaga just turned 40 and he has never stopped working, but he feels that his career began to take shape following the acclaimed debut of Jota Linares, animals without collar . He now he is done malaka , a series set in La Palmilla, a working-class neighborhood in his hometown. In it he plays a junkie (hence the strict diet that he follows) and he is immersed until December in the filming of Temperance , an adaptation of the novel by María Dueñas about a family that owns some vineyards in Jerez at the beginning of the 19th century.
"When I read the paper I said 'great, finally someone healthy', but it turns out that they call my character El Comino because he is the ugly one in the family and he became a dwarf at the age of thirteen. It was like… do you really see me like this?” he laughs.
“Almost all the roles they give me are for composition, which is fine, although my mother and my partner have a terrible time with the diet. But I no longer have so many expectations, I have had many and it has not worked for me. Now I don't have dreams, but goals, and I have more fun."
As an actor and traveler, he defines himself as disciplined, intense and enjoying himself. "I'm at a time when what I want is to be good with myself and be as honest as possible."
For a year and a half he lived in Paris and was part of an international company that took him to Korea, Australia, Brazil, Mexico, Cuba... After a break, ** Thailand was the rediscovery of his 'traveler self'.**
Today I would choose Route 66. “The cliché of taking a motorcycle or a Cadillac, with all the associated cinematic references, It gives me a feeling of freedom. It's what I want to feel. In addition, it has a history that attracts me: it was created in the middle of the depression so that the towns could survive the crisis. That's cool It gives me a sense of opportunity."
**VISUAL ARTIST SARA LANDETA WOULD TAKE US TO JAPAN **
Sara Landeta explains to us that she always travels with a notebook in hand, since it is the moment in which her mind is most activated on a creative level. "Sometimes I even get exhausted," confesses the Canarian artist, who has just been appointed executive creative director at The Modern Kids & Family agency.
Her last work as an artist, Medicine as Metaphor , that series of works inspired by two essays by Susan Sontag and made with his characteristic and sharp colored pencils – “A totally innocent tool, which does not allow you to modify if you make a mistake” –, she set the bar very high, with a long national and international journey.
Sara Landeta, with Pedro del Hierro and Melania Freire shirt. Styling: Nirave
“I try to disconnect when I run away, because sometimes I get too abstracted with so much inspiration, but I know that in Japan it would be impossible for me not to think about my work every second”, she tells us. However, she admits that she finds it hard to find time to go enjoy this destination that attracts her so much, since she combines her creative work in an advertising agency with a new project that will see the light in 2020.
“I come back with Not Found Project, I think more mature and relaxed, although I continue with my usual language, very autobiographical. Rescue already closed parts of my life that have become still life. Of everything that is lived, beautiful things remain. We are very excited about the gallery (6más1)”.
The trip of his life was the three years she lived in Paris, when he was 15. "He's next door, he's not the craziest of trips I've ever done, but he changed me completely. When she was little it was difficult to see art in Tenerife, and it was in the French capital where I discovered the museums, the galleries... I didn't get out of them, my mother couldn't believe it because I was a bad student. I still maintain the friendships from then and I think that if I am an artist it is because of those years”.
** Tokyo is “so visual”, that she believes that she will return from there with a suitcase full of flyers that they give her on the street ** “It seems curious to me the way they have in Japan of mix traditional culture with futurism, intrigue me. And its islands, the beaches... I would go for a month, although I have to buy the tickets quickly because then I change my mind a thousand times”, she laughs.
“There is a spectacular island, Yakushima, that inspired the director of princess mononoke , where I would go snorkeling or diving, which I love. I would also like to do a bike tour through the Japanese Alps. I am neither very much from the mountains nor from the beach, nor from the city, I need a bit of everything so this destination is perfect.”
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