By Kelvin Malavé @kelvinmalave
"The metamorphosis is the change that occurs; I am no longer a dog, now I am a cat.".
The dog is an animal that respects the rules taught to it by pop music, the industry, radio, and even the Venezuelan rock scene. In this first solo album by Luis Irán (After more than ten years as the leader of Los Paranoias) he undergoes his metamorphosis into a cat. Let's understand felines a little better., They are animals that achieve their creative freedom, who know how to return home and take advantage of the techniques they have learned and that already exist, but they always do what their art tells them to do to express themselves and have fun.
Those Britpop musical lines are now a thing of the past; these melodies come from the very depths of Luis's heartbeat., achieving a similarity with the drummer boy, that Christmas carol that achieves a repetitive and intimate beat, which resembles the rhythm of the heart, managing to penetrate the brain and keep humming the melody day and night.
The intimate nature of the album is present from beginning to end; the cat reappears in the story. Long-distance love is ever-present; the lyrics don't assume the others are gone, you feel at every moment that the song has changed and which achieves a new composition because it is the skin, it is the mutation.
For the production of this first solo work, Luis Irán worked alongside musician and producer Ricardo Martínez (Wahala, Famasloop), who was also responsible for the recording and mixing, at Remoto Estudio. The mastering process was handled by Francesco Imbriaco at CCS Mix & Mastering.
The Metamorphosis It features the collaboration of prominent musicians from the Venezuelan rock scene: Óscar Pérez, Tomás Zabala (Vltravioleta), Víctor Rodríguez (Los Humanoides), Luis Daniel González (Famasloop), Carlos Angola, Reynaldo Goitía (Tomates Fritos), Marcel Dávila, Ana Elba Domínguez and Aquiles Torres.
In the opening track of the album, Family, wildlife, and coexistence, It depicts Caracas society, a typical family living in an urbanization of the capital city. Maiquetía, is the song that set the course for Venezuelan rock in 2015, because apart from receiving a lot of airplay, He captured the exodus of Venezuelan musicians. In They come and go, is described again to a population desperate for two meaningless paths.
While the entire album is full of sure-fire radio singles, its own concept, and continuity, if one song encapsulates the album, it's the track The book, where following the melodies of the strings, It's a theme that seals the end, but making it clear that with this sentenceIt doesn't end, this is just the beginning... if a door opens, it never closes again.".
