C. Tangana he's back. And thank goodness, because this January it was getting a bit uphill for us between snowfall of the century and what seems to be an endless loop of confinements and bad news.
we were looking forward to new Year , to return to bars, cinema and museums, Sunday walks in the sun... plans that have been truncated (once again) for a normality that does not finish starting . We have patience, we have more than enough, but seen what has been seen, the arrival of the routine it will only be made easier if the music and art They decide to lend us a hand from the comfort of our homes.
Promotional poster for 'Comerte Entera'.
pure cañí art is the one that has been marked The Madrilenian together with (his) producer Little Spain , with the release of his latest single 'eat you whole' , a bossanova that makes us fall in love with Madrid again with the actress Barbara Lennie as protagonist. Here, the story runs between two locations, disparate and antagonistic like a restaurant and a house on the outskirts of the capital, but with the same common thread: a love story and the memories they leave behind.
"Carvajal House It is one of the distinctive settings of the shoot", reveals Santos Bacana, the director of the video. "A brutalist house on the outskirts of Madrid that the architect Javier Caravajal built for himself", he continues. "From 'Too many women', through 'You stopped loving me', each of the videos we have made for C. Tangana range from the hand with what the music wants to communicate. If the first was the time to get down to the most traditional , the following provided details being more commercial. Now this one is a bit easier to locate within the current context and has a more contemporary touch, more avant-garde and simpler," he continues.
El Madrileño (C. Tangana) and Santos Bacana during the filming of the video.
'Tú me stopped wanting' was the bombshell that bathed visual references from the Spanish imaginary and that are used again here but in a more demure and reflective way. "This is a song in which C. Tangana collaborates with Toquinho , a mythical brazilian guitarist , taking us to the past and setting Romantic "Bacana tells us.
How not to do it when Bárbara Lennie (essa mina é um perigo, says the song) is the one who walks through the center of Madrid as the focus of his attention. "We wanted the profile of one more woman mature , that she was not a twenty-year-old girl", confesses Chris Trenas With María Rubio, video producers . "The idea of having someone with an actress profile and with an interpretive capacity like hers brings much more to our work," they tell us. "She makes it all more sophisticated, with texture "adds Bacana. "The flow of her with her during the filming was great. She is now in love with Little Spain and we with her, "he ends.
Carvajal House
Who better than her and her magnetism to guide the camera on a winter walk through the gardens of lepanto , in front of the Royal Palace, dressed in Gucci from head to toe, to finish eating in complete solitude a Cooked half-day at the Lhardy restaurant, an icon of Madrid's restaurants.
"We wanted a contrast within the video so that it would bring old-fashioned elegance", they explain to us why they opted for this particular restaurant. We did a tour of several mythical stew places in Madrid to see which one fit the most", adds Cris Trena, producer of the video. "The starting point was that she had to eat, yes or yes, a stew. That's how we got to La Bola, Horcher, Casa Ciriaco... ", she continues. "We even went to Swag "Bacana releases. "That it is not cooked but that it could work because of its aesthetics. The idea was to have a classic image of Bárbara in the middle of the restaurant while at other tables the typical Madrid businessmen are eating, surprised to see her eating alone. We wanted contrasts and the lhardy was the right place to get it," she concludes.
"I was fascinated by scouting to find where to shoot," adds Trenas. "It's great because you get into these places that you normally go to eat and suddenly the doors open to their whole universe," she tells us. "They teach you kitchen , they tell you who has passed through their tables , they lower you to the cellar ...", continues Rubio. "In addition, in these times, restaurants are very dedicated to doing things, maybe on another occasion they would have told us that they did not have time or that it was not possible, but now that things are calmer we had the opportunity to do it," reflects Bacana.
Although they could not count on the Waiters de Lhardy as part of the cast, they found characters capable of embodying them perfectly. "We cast actors They had the same shapes. In fact, there are several of them who are already mythical in many fiction productions," Trenas tells us. "But while you're doing this type of work, you also meet people like one of the characters we met in the restaurant. He told us, full of pride, all that it had cost him to become one of the house waiters... Listening to those stories is something very beautiful", he continues. "Furthermore, we were totally alone on set, we had the whole place to ourselves. We used one room to record, the other as a dressing room and another for production... nobody was controlling us and they had full confidence in our work. It was great," he adds.
'Eat you whole' has been the third installment in a series of five videos that Little Spain has signed to shoot with C. Tangana's record company, Sony Music UK , so we still have two releases left. Now, it's time to wait for them to see the light and, meanwhile, hit play again. Total, If 2020 taught us anything, it's to learn to enjoy loops.
The Little Spain team during filming.