Kamada, on presenting “Plagas” on an international tour: “It’s the peak of our work”

After five years without releasing an extensive group work, Kamada -composed by Kelo and Saje- presented their new album entitled “Plagas” -together with producer Veeyam- and, in a dialogue with Filo.News, the rappers explained the weight that the material has in their discography, the reason why they were focused on their solo career and the expectations generated by the next international tour in which they will stop for the first time in the United States. Chile.” We stopped releasing albums like Kamada generally because we didn’t coincide in time and space, and at the same time we tackled individual projects because it was what the dynamics of our lives allowed us to do at that time,” Saje explained first. In a reunion of the group, “Plagas” was the possibility of taking the level of their writing further in a hermetic creation added to the musical contribution of Veeyam. “Starting Plagas was looking for that moment, creating it together, agreeing on it and now coming back with an album that I think is the peak of our work because of the maturity we have, the tools we have. It’s very exciting, I think it reflects us and defines us better than anything we’ve ever done, and it brings together all the concepts that we left as little seeds,” he added. As a renewal, one of the strong points of Kamada’s new album was the incorporation of Veeyam, decisive in the production and final sound of the tracks. “He raised the bar a lot because from the creation stage, from the moment the song doesn’t exist until it’s done, he’s playing, accompanying, asking you: ‘Come, sit with me, do you like this sound? What do you think of the battery?’ He’s very open, he’s not one of those producers who tell you ‘Look, I made this track, does it work for you?’, he wants to create with you. At the end of the camps where we got together to create, there was the freedom to say, ‘We need a more aggressive song, let’s do it?'” said Kelo.Understanding his role in the group, the producer added a new vision to Kamada regarding the concept of songwriting. “There is something very typical of rap, which is the predetermined beats with the predetermined intros, the predetermined structures, and I think that without looking for it we managed to get out of that and consider creating a song from the point of saying let’s make a song and not a rap song, and that was contagious to us. He always uses the word song, and I always screw him up when I tell him that he ruined our minds when it came to creating because after this it’s like, What are you going to do? What’s next? Who do you work with? His bar is very high and it’s hard for us to get out of there. You don’t want to get out of there,” the rapper said. A turning point in the group’s career, “Plagas” did not escape the typical nerves that emerge in the creation of an extensive work. “It was super nerve-wracking. The first one was in January, add all the uncertainty of 5 years ago not creating something together and not knowing what you are going to say or what you have to say or what sound was going to come out, because we didn’t have any plans for Veeyam to be the only producer of the album,” they explained. In that sense, a key factor in the realization of the album was the musical “camps” in which Kelo, Saje and Veeyam came together to shape the art.” In the camps you have a demand to say: ‘I don’t come here to get into the pile and sunbathe, in these 4 or 5 days I have to come back with something’. And in that search we burned, after the camps it seemed that you needed another camp to rest; It didn’t happen, we went back to the camp and to work. That is not said either, to return from the burnt camp, demanded, happy for the pleasure that creating gives you, but the next day you get up early anyway and you have to go to work. Maybe more than anxiety is that anguish of saying ‘I’m making a great record and that’s it’. And so it was for half a year basically, because between camps I was thinking about some other hose to have for the other camp, so you always had to climb a step, and so half a year or more was stressful; a painful pleasure like childbirth, from January to June,” said Saje.On November 16, the group will arrive for the first time in Chile, a country with a musical tradition in rap where they will seek to leave their “seed”. “It’s the first time we’re going to go, we’re excited. We know that it’s one of the most rapper-friendly countries that can exist, and that they have a very Creole way of seeing how it can be here as well,” explained Saje, and then Kelo added: “I feel that until I’m in Chile playing I don’t fall, that we’re going to go there, which is a very rapper country, and that I listened to a lot as a kid. To be able to go for music today, with our music, to work on that and to do our bit is crazy.” Finally, Saje differentiated between living “from music” and living “for music””, with the focus on intellectual honesty that does not allow them to betray their essence. ” The difference between living for music and living for music, that is, nowadays we make music because we want to and because we have a north and not the other way around. And when we deny and want to grab our heads, we bring out the most human in us, which is also a source of inspiration. Pain is born in many artistic issues, and not losing that barrier, that contact with the mundane, with the routine, I think it also gives it that human side that many people highlight. And we are two normal kids, two friends who continue to make music like when they were kids,” he added.

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