Joan Colomo – Producto Interior Bruto Vol. 1 lp

Colomo, Joan – Producto Interior Bruto Vol. 1 lP

After the public and critical success of his first installment, Against all odds, Joan Colomo (member of Zeidun and La Célula Durmiente) releases his second solo album, Gross Interior Product. Vol. 1, next May with the BCore record label. 12 new songs that will be completed in the fall with the edition of the second volume of songs with the same name. Two albums in one year? Something that no one usually does. Well yes, he:

Once upon a time there was a skinny boy who, clutching his guitar, sang like angels. When he wanted, he also knew how to put on a bartender's voice: to seduce good-looking girls or drive away demons and impertinent boys. If Orpheus lulled the Cerberus to sleep with his lyre, Joan's magical melodies dazzled beasts, children and rockdelux subscribers: she made the best pop music. He had the hook of the great tricksters, from the Shins or Devendra Banhart to Pink Floyd, through Shakira, John Frusciante, Albert Plà, Joanna Newsom or the Bee Gees. He wrote couplets about the banality of evil and capital and composed himself on top of it, always trapped looking for the right rhyme, always with a thousand melodies scratching the palate of his brain. Like a resurrected Eugenio, between song and song he made the peña laugh he also wore dark glasses like Eugenio, and a cocktail in his hand, and a cigarette on his lips. His capacity for seduction was biblical: they say that when he played in Plaza Catalunya the spinning clock stopped and the director of El Corte Inglés seriously considered jumping into the void. On another occasion, in the subway, a song of his was played and when it was over everyone applauded, even the driver and the announcers of the Canal Metro announcements. Once upon a time there was a very good singer named Joan Colomo and he never stopped releasing records, because the songs, inside, tickled and pinched his liver, pancreas and any organ that was within reach and if not, he would he got rid of him he took something. It was the first decades of the 21st century and those of us who were there enjoyed it like crazy. Well, it's true, we are still in 2011: if there is someone who is surprised that I write in the past tense, let them know that circumstances dictate: this is how legends are told.