Lori Meyers: "Being indie is doing things the way you want".

The sextet of Granada has just published 'When Soylent', an adventure in which he admits, could not have embarked several years ago. A retro-futuristic album with electronic sounds and influences of the music of the 60 in which Lori Meyers has taken out of all that ink could not put in their three previous releases.

"With this record we are more aware than in the past. We started with 18 or 19 years with 'Field Trip' (2004) by concerts throughout Spain, was in 'Cronol??nea' (2008) when we stop to think … no one imagined that this would happen so. " Noni summarizes the success of Lori Meyers, a band that in six years has built a unique sound and a legion of faithful followers in the Spanish geography.

They just released to the market 'When we reach the destination, "a" wink "to the science-fiction film" Soylent Green "(whose title in Spain was the disc Lori Meyers) that perfectly sums up this" touch of retro-futuristic "Of the 11 songs that make up their fourth studio work. Paradoxically, in this album, Lori Meyers, who began as a quartet, became a sextet.

"As happened with the fifth member, the sixth Lori Meyer was working on other aspects. Miguelillo was our backline and when we need to another, better level up someone who has spent many hours in the band. The other was Antonio Lomas, who was our tour manager and now is a musician. "

"Now we have the perfect ingredients to make the record we've done, when we were four was impossible to make a record," he explains in the Europa Press interview with the singer, who admits that "When the Soylent 'group members have been removed "many openly." The sample of this release is "My reality ', single, song that opens the album and theme that" complements "the new musical elements Lori Meyers.

Turning the inkwell

"With 'Cronol??nea' we left things out, in this we have done what has given us the win. Even the producer encouraged us to do crazy things and that we felt like the artist is worth a lot because it makes progress," Noni points out that says that have found it "easy", precisely because six people with different tastes, combine all this amalgam of sounds that are perceived in the album.

"In 'Cronol??nea' not introduced the textures we wanted, although we came with songs like 'Siberian' or 'Neon Lights'," says the singer, who among the band cites influences from bands like Beach Boys, The Beatles, Bob Dylan, the music of Motown or Phil Spector and "inevitably", the alternative scene of the 90s, from New Order and Daft Punk to Sonic Youth, Nirvana through. That if, in a matter of accents are "school of Jack" (from the Planets).

The producer, Argentine Sebastian Krys, has played an important role in this evolution of Lori Meyers, who forgot the "mainstream party" that could bring an individual who has worked with artists like Shakira and David Bisbal. "Prejudices are things you need to remove the topic of music and art," says Noni.

"If you see your baggage reject a record because he has recorded with Bisbal're not an artist, you're a guy who is more outstanding than a single type of magazine you listen to you only 2,000 people and say you're the coolest Spain. A good drive willto send a message to many people, myself among a group because I think it had something to say and if you do not want as many people hear better, I would go to the psychologist. "

Record with Krys Castle Oaks Studios in Los Angeles emerged almost by accident. The band already had plans to record in Motril when a producer's family fell ill and offered them the opportunity to work in the United States. "We aim with his arms and his mouth open, for us to Los Angeles was a city teenagers," says Noni.

What is coming

As one of the promises of 'indie' Spanish, Lori Meyers is aware that the genre "is living the best moment in its history." Maga, Napoleon Solo, Love of Lesbian, Vetusta Morla, Sidonie, Deluxe … are some of the examples cited as an example of Noni that "people are interested in the quarry which is here" and that there are groups "to reach as many people who can and who are having great results."

A priori, move large amounts of public would cause chills in the 'indies' more dogmatic, but Noni believes the concept has changed. "'Indie' is the group that is independent of the radiof??rmulas or what others do. Being 'indie' is to be told how to do things and you say 'I think I have the ability to know them as I want' or that although this group in a multinational chooses to be so for what they do … the rest are labels "she believes.

As for the future, Lori Meyers is optimistic and with good reason. "It's our fourth record and have 28 years. I, humbly, that we have not stopped learning all disks and we have much to learn. I think we can make very good records, or very bad, but I think it will come good records, "he concludes.

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