Before Rosalía put classical music on the world’s lips with ‘LUX’, there have been other approaches, logically. Last October, Musgö from Cádiz published one of her most curious productions, ‘The Battle of the Swans’. It’s our Song of the Day today.
Chosen as the third single from their third album ‘The Crack’, ‘The Battle of the Swans’ is a personal reinterpretation of Tchaikovsky’s ‘The Lake of Cinemas’ (1877). After a whispering first fragment in which the harp that has always characterized Musgö’s music dominates, a techno beat prevails in the second half. All this without indulging in that tacky EDM that from time to time dominates the charts – especially the British ones.
Valid for followers of Judeline and Mala Rodríguez in its first half, in which the influence of urban phrasing is evident; and rather for the followers of the extinct Fuel Fandango in the second, ‘The Battle of the Swans’ is part of the general theme of ‘The Rift’. An album that was put into circulation yesterday at the same time as a presentation concert was held at the Sala El Sol in Madrid.
This album aims to “transform pain into an electronic journey towards light.” And that is what it does when moving from a challenging first part to another that wants to elevate itself: “aspiring to be divine, to be more than what you told me” says what we could consider the chorus.
The El Tragaluz press release reports that these 8 songs, co-produced together with Ramiro Gómez, speak of “a dark stage but full of hope.” In it, “darkness and light, acoustic and electronic, delicacy and strength, rave and calm” are contrasted.
