And the dogs had a destination: the Picasso Tower. Arde Bogotá has discovered it with a song named after the skyscraper in Madrid that was once the tallest in Spain. 157 metres high, which the group from Cartagena, Murcia, knocked down in eight minutes and four seconds, with a song that arrived a few hours ago and has not left everyone’s mouths, exclamations on social networks and among experts. On loop. Because of its significance. Because of all the music it brings together at once. From indie to the purest rock. Only they could do it. In the week in which Vetusta Morla has left the stage for an indefinite period, the group called to take over its reign uploads this song to close its second album, ‘Cowboys de la A3’, with a unanimous verdict: masterpiece. Both in one.
First, because of its duration. Eight minutes and four seconds that They remind us so much of Heroes del Silenciothe comparison is inevitable, since those left many have wanted to be them but only these come close, now Robe Iniesta and his ‘Pedrá’ with its twenty-nine minutes of duration. Second, for the moment. In the time of the fast, of today for yesterday, of increasingly shorter choruses, designed to be inserted without a cut in TikTok videos and in an Instagram storyin things with speed of reelas soon as you see it, it happens so fast, they make a song of eight minutes and four seconds. They, Arde Bogotá, to knock down the Torre Picasso, an emblem, to, perhaps, knock down another. This schizophrenic world in which nothing remains, not even the ruins.
THE PICASSO TOWER
If happiness escapes, I will dance with the pain.
Open your eyes and your ears.
Thank you with all my heart to:
Aitor Guerrero and his team for this animation.
Carlos Raya for his production and guidance.
The SonBuenos family.
And to the people who accompany us and give us strength. pic.twitter.com/DAMfxmkSgA
— BOGOTA BURNS (@arde_bogota) September 13, 2024
“How to mix Extremoduro, Red Hot Chili Peppers, U2, Heroes del Silencio in one song. You have made the song for which you will be remembered from now on,” wrote user Paco Hernández on Twitter. “I just listened to ‘La torre Picasso’ and It took me back to the rock anthems I listened to many years ago. ‘November Rain’, ‘Bohemian Rapsody’, ‘One’… Gun&Roses, Queen, U2, Heroes del Silencio… Another great song. And an anthem for posterity”, said another, Aurelio Cegarra. And also journalists specializing in music such as Javier Decimavilla (“In a time when fast and instant consumption seems to mark a large part of musical releases and now that the trend seems to be to publish short songs, Arde Bogotá stand out by releasing an eight-minute song”, began a thread in which he highlighted that the song has it all: “It is indebted to the best progressive rock. It starts with a guitar arpeggio and Antonio’s voice sounds especially deep and sincere. There are psychedelic airs and a lot of groove, there is forcefulness, there is epic and there is emotion.but above all there is a lot of rock”), The Informed Servantauthor of the podcast #EscenarioPrincipal (“MONUMENTAL SONG”), Arturo Paniagua, who, by the way, interjected like a bottle thrown into the sea, in case it reaches whoever it concerns: how his ‘Movistar+ Sessions’ are missed, (“That the band of the moment makes an eight-minute song is already a declaration of intentions. ‘The Picasso Tower goes through an amalgam of emotions that starts from the reflective and advances towards the wild and frenetic to end in a kind of collective celebration.’) and Fernando Neira, a journalist from Cadena SER and El País (“In case anyone still had the slightest doubt about Arde Bogotá, this eight-minute epilogue entitled ‘La torre Picasso’ is the definitive blow of power.”) Even her comrades Viva Suecia, another of the groups of the moment, woke up congratulating her: “What Arde Bogotá has done with ‘La torre Picasso’ It’s fucking genius and we can only take our hats off”. Applause. Long live Murcia and musicians like them.
“We must stop the world”Antonio’s voice shouts at minute 3:34.
Guitar. Guitar. From the guitaraaaa.
“The plan is clear: burn down the Picasso Tower”. The pace picks up. It accelerates like the heartbeats woven into that deep voice that carriesin which one would stay to live, from the depth, for the shelter it gives. He says it twice before that “Sisters and brothers: burn the Picasso tower”. Also twice. The guitar is heard very loud, filling everything. The air, the atmosphere, the blood, the feet.
The song continues.
While Antonio’s voice, and all the dogs that were released, observe that building that is now the headquarters of companies such as Google or Microsoft (and in 1990 Canal+, when it was founded) turned into rubbleIt’s ‘Blade Runner’ brought to music. Walter Tevis’ ‘Mockingbird’. Ray Bradbury’s ‘Fahrenheit 451’ still steaming. Any dystopia made reality. Interwoven in that voice that envelops a guitar (Dani), a drum kit (J. Mercader) and a bass (Pepe) to make it eternal. He’s been on the street for a few hours and now he can only use that adjective. There are songs that belong to a moment, a summer, a year, others, however, go through time. ‘La torre Picasso’ is one of the latter. Brilliant.. Bucle, bucle, BUCLE.
Produced by Carlos Rayawith whom Arde Bogotá already worked on the version of ‘La Salvación’ together with Bunbury, and a video clip directed and animated by Aitor Guerreroall apocalyptic, which transmits in its drawing everything that Arde Bogotá is relating, to be threaded inside, like Antonio’s voice and lyrics, Pepe’s bass, Dani’s guitar, J. Mercader’s drums.
“If happiness escapes, I will dance with the pain”.
But where does this lead when all around are flames? Because youth always ends up missing. Although songs like ‘La torre Picasso’ be the obverse, those that will never get wrinkles.
Thank you, Arde Bogotá, for bringing us here.
“I will dance with the pain”.
“Na, na, na, na, na, na, na, na, na”.
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