Twenty years of career can be covered in less than five minutes on foot, the ones needed to go from the Sidecar room, to Plaça Reial, to the Teatre del Liceu, that is, from the beginnings of Dorian to the concert that Thursday 15 ( 9 p.m.) will perform at the Rambla theater, and will fulfill the dream of an emblematic lineup of national indie that has made the sound a benchmark for an entire generation. With the latest album, Ritual, just out of the oven, the Barcelona formation is preparing for a performance full of surprises and guests such as Suu or Antonio GarcÃa, from Arde Bogotá. Belly Hernández and Marc Gili meet at Café de l’Opera to talk about the concert.
The Liceu is not just another performance.
Belly: It’s a long concert, we don’t do a representation of our entire career, but we will play some songs differently, more acoustic or more classical. There will be a string trio, percussionist, extra guitarist… But we also do songs in electronic format and more Dorian.
What does touch there mean?
Marc: It is a consolidation of a proposal, we are an independent music band, we started very close to here, at the Sidecar, and now we are on the other side of the Rambla. If you draw a line between the Sidecar and the Liceu and all the places in l’Hospitalet, de la Verneda or Cornellà where we started playing, you will draw the story of a band that has been fighting for its proposal for twenty years, that has gone consolidating outside the laws of the market, of the large budgets that the multinationals have.
Young musicians work more and more alone, from home.
B: It’s a sign of the times, they’re more individualistic, but it’s not bad, they do beautiful things, like collaborating with very different people.
M: We are in a moment where the record industry is betting a lot on individual artists, on a single artist. Because? Because one guy alone gives less trouble than four, of course.
Is it better to have a band live?
M: There have been talent shows on television for about twenty years now, where the most important thing is the singer, the performer, and the music is always canned. People have been used to it for so long that they might not care as long as you put a few dancers moving behind it.
Kendrick Lamar played at Primavera Sound with hidden drums and bass.
M: It’s a perfectly valid option, Madonna used it on more than one tour where she had dancers, a big set, and the musicians were hidden. You don’t necessarily have to show them, but they should be there, because the audience notices the energy that the band transmits live.
You were pioneers in combining electronics with instruments.
M: In Dorian’s genetics there is the Nitsa club from Barcelona, ​​the Apolo. Downstairs you could listen to techno and electronic music, and upstairs you could listen to hip-hop, electre and indie. We made a synthesis and turned it into Dorian.
You were also pioneers in singing in Spanish.
B: The Spanish indie that has worked has done so largely because of the lyrics, because people can sing the songs, understand them and live it.
