translated from Spanish: Gianluca: “My music is not trap, I just make music”

Although he does feel part of a scene, along with other musicians such as DrefQuila, Pablo Chill-E and Young Cister, Gianluca does not want to conscribe his music to the trap. Proof of this is “Yin Yang”, the debut album that the Chilean released with the Label Quemasu cabeza and on which he collaborates with Pablo Chill-E, as well as with Gepe. On the album, the 23-year-old national musician explored various sounds, such as electronic pop showing in the song that gives the album its name, on which he collaborated with Javiera Mena. “Before my music was much more trap in terms of sound and in the G Love (mixtape) I started to show other lighter sound nuances,” he told I’m Chile prior to the release of the album that is already on Spotify. “I think the concept of the trap scene is going to change, so I mean I use an equal time ‘urban music’ because it is wider,” opined who has installed himself as one of the main exponents of that genre in Chile, with his participation in Lollapalooza Chile 2019 and in faith local trap stivales. Since debuting in music with his first single “Burning Banknotes”, which he released on YouTube more than three years ago, Gianluca released two mixtapes, “G Love” and “SSR” and an EP, “Vortex”, but explains that “I have always wanted to make a record, more than one album also , because for me the concept of the record is super important; that has an order, that it is heard in a way, that has a concept, that has a sound aesthetic, that has a roll.”Why did you choose the Yin Yang concept?The concept starts with Javiera, that when I did the demo I felt that the concept was super powerful. In fact, after that I think I got it tattooed. In truth there I was not so clear whether I was going to make a record or not but I was spinning in my head always the concept and already when I defined that it was a record like I thought fed up with ideas and concepts and names and like that I didn’t think anything and then I went back to yin Yang’s initial idea and when I closed it I started to find a lot of threads between the songs, like that they communicated very well with each other, the concept began to close more and more, how it was expressed on the record. For me of the 13 songs “Yin Yang” is the one that divides the two sides of the Yin Yang. The first half is the dark, the second the luminous and as in Yin Yang itself in the dark there is also light and in the light there is darkness, then also on each side you can find a more luminous song that are like the ones that start and the ones that close. How did the collaboration with Javiera Mena and Gepe represent a generation other than yours?They are of another generation and make music as well different from what I do, in a way, but I also feel that all three of us belong to something rather alternative, that makes us able to get together and that is not weird. I mean, if you listen to the songs, it sounds like me and Javiera or me and Gepe. Like it’s a universe that I felt they could get in, it’s not how I want to get Gepe because it’s Gepe, but when I did the songs it occurred to me because I thought about it. I feel that also the songs of which they are part are some of the most out of the things I had done before, of the genres I had worked, so I really like their participations and also be able to take my music elsewhere.On the album mix many styles is your intention to explore other genres?It’s just that for me it’s never been trap, for me it’s music, so I think that also on the record this is shown as more direct. Maybe when people listen to the record they will better understand that my music is not trap, that I make music simply and that also as I have songs that can be trap I have songs that can be reggaeton but not that is why I am a reggaeton artist , or songs that are more alternative with band and not that’s why I do alternative pop. As I feel that the genres equally limit and the music that I like, the artists I like the most always have something that you can hear them about any rhythm, the grace is that they continue to sound like themselves. I feel that as much as I can have songs up psychedelics and as rock on the record is still Gianluca. That’s bacan and I feel like that’s what I’ve shown from the beginning, I feel like I’ve used people who listen to me that they can hear so much more things trap in quotes or weirder things, whatever, and that it’s still me.A release of a record marks a milestone in your career and it would not be uncommon for you to be preferred by a contest like the Festival de Viña would you like to go?The truth is the Festival of Viña I feel that it is a stage where the artists who are much more dedicated than me go. What I always say, Gepe and Javiera Mena were at a time when everyone already knew them, they had already done international tours, they were already very consecrated and I feel that it is time for Viña. Like that now suddenly it is very incipient and although urban music has something very powerful, so powerful that perhaps some very young artist could come to play Viña, I think that Viña is a space where more consecrated artists go and that is also the way in which they they set up the grill. But if the baccanate moment came and passed, I find that it is a bacan scenario, one of the most important in Chile.

Original source in Spanish