Nacho Vegas has announced that his ninth album will see the light in January 2026, four years after the last one, ‘immobile worlds collapsing’ (2022). The first preview, ‘relief’, shows a different facet of the Asturian, while “gives clues about the search and reflection of the precious things (semi) that he deals with” his new album.
‘Relief, our song of the day this Saturday, was conceived during a Vegas bath on San Lorenzo beach, and written around a phrase by William Burroughs, “maybe all pleasure is nothing more than relief.” He detonated the composition of ‘Relief’ Vegas’s contact with a cormorant – a water bird – located under water. The bird stroked Vegas and the artist began to meditate on “pleasure as relief and beauty of the world represented in the flight of those elegant black wings.”
‘Relief’ is not as biased as it sounds, but it is a slight and pop back song, but blues and folk clothing, although as poetic as usual. Vegas reflects on the human condition, on the conflict between needing, loving and hating each other, about “how little we are” in the immensity of the universe, while time and wind continue their course.
It is a ‘relief’ that Nacho Vegas continues to explore new musical paths: in ‘Relief’ the arrangements of strings, percussions and electric guitar draw a probable fusion between the styles of Calexico and Nick Cave, for placing it in some concrete coordinate. It has some orchestral country, some pastoral folk, some of Louisiana Blues, and all of Nacho Vegas.
‘Relief’ is presented with a video clip directed by Jordi Santos, whose vision “invites us to know Nacho’s calm in harmony with nature, a scenario where they also inevitably burst, darker thoughts.” “In this piece,” says the press release, “we see the artist in an intimate search with his other self, which sometimes finds answers in other paradises.”
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eieb_k8ks_e
