Qualude – El Orden De Las Cosas CD

Qualude – El Orden De Las Cosas CD

Within the most underground circuits of the peninsula, Qualude is a group that has kept us, since its birth in 1999, in a permanent state of expectation. Because they appear and disappear from the map whenever they feel like it, with the peculiarity that, every time they disappear, they leave us with candy in our mouths, wanting more and wondering when we can hear them again. After their adventures with their previous group, Porfideo RubIrosa, with whom they toured the state alongside the mythical Belgian Quetzal, they started with Qualude with the aim of abandoning the obvious, the obvious of indie rock and focusing on its instrumental part, delving into its complexity and get closer to experimental rock or post-rock. And they did so well that they became not only the flagship of Alicante's 13 Grabaciones label, but also the greatest exponent of the Alicante underground and one of the most famous of the Valencian in general. And when after his brilliant self-titled debut in 2001, his memorable presentation tour around the state with Engine Down, his qualification for the final part of the Villa de Bilbao and his memorable performance in the mecca of fans of the genre, the Sant Feliu Fest of 2002, they decide to abandon their activity as a group and dedicate themselves to personal chores, the absence is felt. But the popular outcry tightens, and in 2004 they decide to reactivate, not without adding a new twist to their music: the voice enters the scene, yes, as one more instrument and not as the leitmotif of some compositions that continue to delve into the instrumentation. The trumpet, present since its inception, now makes more sense than ever in its melodic projection and all the songs find the right balance between experimentation and intelligibility, recharging less, letting you breathe and enveloping everything in a disturbing but fragile atmosphere. The cause of his concerns and this wonderful The Order of Things (BCore, 07), a wise mix of direct influences (June of 44, Slint, Shipping News, Smart Went Crazy), combined with the atmospheric influence of Spacemen 3 or the Velvet Underground and, above all, with the devotion to Charles Mingus, Chet Baker or Miles Davis. A whole range of sensitivities collected by three other qualified sensitivities: those of these three musicians who take avant-garde rock one step forward, but not to mix with the baroque, the intellectual and the snobbish, but quite the opposite: to express their simplicity with the simplicity of a battery, a bass and a guitar, extensions of their brains and limbs.