6th Edition of Santander International Record and Collecting Fair
Tuesday 23 of August
“Silhouettes and Shadows: David Bowie”
With the presence of the author, Juan J. Vicedo and with Luis Avín and J. Martínez as presenters/moderators.
“Nobody had told Bowie like that before,” journalist and writer Rafa Cervera, author of the prologue, recently said. Through more than a hundred scenes that go through the life and work of David Bowie, Juan J. Vicedo insists on discovering the character behind the masks, and for this he becomes an invisible witness of his acts, accompanying him so that we can see his fascinating life and how it was projected in his music. The elusive character reveals himself to us between silhouettes and shadows, in a book that unnoticed provides a huge amount of information, not only musical, but biographical, recreating moments and sounds, faithfully portraying people and places. A time spanning from his youth as a vocalist in London bands to his death, told in the personal narrative style the author has previously used in his works on Bob Dylan, Patti Smith, Kate Bush, and Pulp, Jarvis Cocker, and Richard Hawley, and in his collaborations in the Alicante Information Newspaper and in the digital magazine Dirty Rock Magazine. “There will be a lot of talk about this book, I am convinced”, pointed out the journalist Javier de Diego, author of the epilogue.
Juan J. Vicedo (Alicante, 1961) debuted at the end of the 70s with some poems and short stories in the independent magazine Cabaret, which only he remembers, but the consequences of that distant adolescent spring are visible in his current work, which has aroused the interest of critics for his way of combining music journalism and literature: “Listening to Dylan” (2013), “Patti Smith. Horses for eternity” (2015), “Kate Bush. The domains of the invisible” (2016 ), “Streets that were ours. The musical universe of Jarvis Cocker, Richard Hawley and Pulp” (2019) and “Silhouettes and Shadows. David Bowie (2021)”, his most ambitious book.
Wednesday 24 of August
“In the presence of Battiato”
With the presence of the author, Eduardo Laporte and with Luis Avín as presenter/moderator
On May 18, 2021, at the age of 76, Franco Battiato, one of the most important renovators of music on the European scene, died at his home in Milo, Sicily, Italy. The first Italian artist to sell more than a million copies with an album, ‘La voce del padrone’ (1981), Battiato has countless followers, both for his personal conception of music and for his commitment to spirituality and a transcendent search that has accompanied him all his life and has been reflected in all his work. Eduardo Laporte (Pamplona, 1979), journalist and writer, focuses on this ‘subtle’ dimension to outline the first biography of Battiato after his death, and the second in Spanish after ‘Franco Battiato’ (Cátedra), by Eduardo Margaretto, published in 1990, that is, more than thirty years ago. ‘In the presence of Battiato’, edited by Sílex Música, began to be written the same day the Sicilian musician died and recreates the life of the author of ‘Nómadas’, emphasizing the most spiritual part, while describing the trajectory of a fulfilled person, of a creator satisfied with his own existence and with his own legacy.
Eduardo Laporte has published autobiographical titles such as “Light of November, in the afternoon” or his private diaries published in Pamiela or minimal papers. He also participated in the Baroja y yo collection with his Barojiano and just the opposite and collaborates with media such as Territorios of El Correo de Bilbao, El Viajero of El País. Since last September he publishes an opinion column in The Objective. Born in Pamplona, he has lived in Madrid since 2005.
Thursday 25 of August
“Survive Loquillo or how to write a biography of the Loco and not die trying”
With the presence of Felipe Cabrerizo and with Luis Avín as presenter/moderator
The renowned journalist Felipe Cabrerizo embarked on the difficult task of writing Loquillo’s official biography. In this talk he will share the details and the process of creating a book born from interviews with the protagonist and his circle.
Controversial and elusive figure, Loquillo achieved success in the company of Untouchables and Troglodytes but, uncomfortable with a character that had ceased to be his, he did not hesitate to abandon him. It was the beginning of a long journey in which many times he was close to losing his footing and from which he only managed to get out after reinventing himself as a solo artist. Almost half a century after his debut in a cabaret on the Ramblas, El Loco is facing one of the fullest stages of his career, becoming a benchmark for Spanish culture and avoiding any hint of conformity. A long and winding journey thoroughly analyzed in this volume, the first biography of the singer.
Friday 26 of August
“Javier Krahe, neither ugly, nor Catholic, nor sentimental”
With the presence of the author, Federico de Haro and with Luis Avín as presenter/moderator
Javier Krahe, as he himself used to say, added a new rod to the range of the song genre in our country. With it, the air circulates with an unusual literary force and discovers unexplored corners. Known above all for his caustic lyrics about love, politics and religion, admirer of Brassens and Leonard Cohen, colleague of Chicho Sánchez Ferlosio and mentor of Joaquín Sabina and Albert Pla, he had a restless (in his own way) and curious life. . As much as his songs, which have their roots in his student years in El Pilar and reach the prolific seasons in Zahara de los Atunes, going through the sweet Canadian self-exile in the late Franco regime, the first years of democracy and the subsequent clashes with power. Songs like “La hoguera”, “Marieta”, “Un coarse rumor”, “Ingenuous Raven”, “On the Swiss coast” or “Not everything is going to be fucking” are the flag of the most enduring counterculture.
Federico de Haro has reconstructed the life and career of Javier Krahe based on the two essential ingredients in any great biography: passion and sources. The singer-songwriter’s family and friends have opened the doors of their houses to tell him everything that is not known about Krahe. The story, completed with a close examination of his personal way of composing the songs and introducing them live and with an appendix with his first lyrics (unpublished until today) results in an intimate and original portrait of the man who was always against.
Saturday 27 of August
“Rolling Stones, How Sticky Fingers Was Made”
With the presence of the author, Javier Cosmen Concejo and with Luis Avín and J. Martínez as presenters/moderators
Mick Taylor declared in 1970: “Just because the Rolling Stones can’t get bigger than they already are doesn’t mean they can’t get better.” Sticky Fingers unequivocally marked a radical change in his career and that is where his importance lies. Not in vain, fifty years later, the Sticky Fingers constitute one of the pillars that sustains the reputation of the long-standing British band. With this updated and expanded review, the author intends to make us travel to the depths of the creation of a great work, without abandoning the path of common sense and always far from the subjectivity of misunderstood fanaticism, to understand why, for many, this it is his best work.
Author of “La Quadrophenia” by Pete Townshend (Flint, 2019) and “It’s not just rock and roll. The Rolling Stones in Spain” (Sepha, 2010). He has also participated in different radio programs and collaborated in the written press with interviews, articles and photographs. A certain obsession with trying to understand artists through his works makes him adapt his technique to exploration and dissemination. That is why now, with the updated and expanded review of “Rolling Stones, how Sticky Fingers was made”, it opens the doors of the recording studios to show us the ins and outs that culminated in what is, for many, the best album of the legendary British band.
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