We like people to dance, jump, and get excited.
When we’re playing live, the limelight is all his.Īsier Etxeandia : The album contains puzzles, tiny secrets, which you understand when you see us play live.
#MASTODONTE CALL OF HOW TO#
He has a very own way of writing lyrics, he knows how to sing and move like nobody else. We know that it’s a tough record to get, that it requires effort, but if you really listen to it, if you really make an effort, you’ll understand the trip we want to take you on.Įnrico Bárbaro : Asier is a complete artist who feels comfortable in many different artistic disciplines. Our music is made up of a lot of different styles, which is why people find it so hard to classify us. We don’t care about tribes-they take the edges off everything and limit your personality. That’s how we came up with the name Mastodonte, because at times the project turned into a monster that devoured us.Īsier Etxeandia : Our main identity is precisely the change of identity. We got lost several times and then found each other again, and, slowly, we progressed. The idea was to make the record the sum of our personalities.Įnrico Bárbaro: We both like concept albums, but with a powerful sound we struggled a lot to find. What were you looking for?Īsier Etxeandia: This album has taken us two years to make. Your homonymous first album is an experimental exercise oscillating between eclectic electronica, pop and epic rock. We discovered that we had the ability to create new things together.Įnrico Bárbaro: My friend Pino Rovereto, who is a drummer, suggested we work in some musicals in Madrid for some time, and I just stayed. Mastodonte was born kind of by accident, during the soundchecks. But, most of all, we share countless musical tastes and references. His energy, silent and elegant, makes me feel protected. Enrico was the bass player, and he always transmitted so much peace and security. How do a man from Bilbao and another one from Naples end up forming a band in Madrid?Īsier Etxeandia : We met during El Intérprete, my previous show, where we worked together for five years. The (Silent) War is many things at once and they’re all good: it’s classic war cinema, epic, high-speed and, above all, it’s about characters and emotions.Īsier Etxeandia : it was a real battle during two months in autumn-very cold and with many nights spent out in the open. Anselmo’s character is one of the most important ones in my career, and the one I have learned from the most. I don’t know how, but this role gave me a burst of terrible panic, which was axiomatic, because it’s the same state of mind Anselmo is in, so I just went with that fear. Has shooting it been difficult?Īsier Etxeandia: It’s been really hard, and I have to confess that I had a terrible time. The (Silent) War is closer to Tarantino’s action cinema than any other Spanish movie. If Alfonso weren’t my friend, I would never have landed the role, so I should say that I’ve been very lucky.
#MASTODONTE CALL OF MOVIE#
It all adds up.Īsier Etxeandia : I’ve actually been part of this project ever since Alfonso Cortés-Cavanillas came up with the idea of adapting the comic and making a movie out of it. The song is titled Simplemente perfecto ('Simply Perfect') and its a perfect fit. And, of course, cinema.īesides the leading role in Sordo, you have written the song that is played during the credits with your band Mastodonte.
We meet him and Bárbaro, his musical partner, during a pause in Mastodonte’s Transfiguración tour to chat about music, passion, and talent. Asier Etxeandia (Bilbao, 1975) is brilliant as the main character.
Like so many times before, the comic ended up being adapted for the big screen, thanks to the particular commitment of emerging filmmaker Alfonso Cortés-Cavanillas. Now, his priorities are to flee, hunt, look for shelter and, ultimately, survive. Deprived of his hearing sense and with his ability to understand the world limited, the protagonist unleashes his inner animal.
Sordo (Spanish for “deaf”) is the story of Anselmo, a partisan in 1942 post-war Spain, who starts a guerrilla war and, when preparing to blow up a bridge, becomes deaf in both ears after the bomb detonates. Work by David Muñoz -writer of adult comics, series, and films like The Devil’s Backbone by Guillermo del Toro, to name but one-and illustrator Rayco Pulido-winner of the National Comic Award 2017. This story begins with a comic published in 2008. This September will see the premiere of 'The (Silent) War' (Spanish title: 'Sordo'), the big-screen adaptation of David Muñoz and Rayco Pulido’s acclaimed comic, which he plays the lead in, and on top of that he continues on tour playing the songs from the first album by Mastodonte, a musical project he shares with multi-instrumentalist Erico Bárbaro (Naples, 1969).Ī comic. Asier Etxeandia’s star is rising fast, thanks to his role in the new Almodóvar movie, 'Pain and Glory'.
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