Willy Bárcenas: "Valtònyc is a cagon and above is more posh than us" | Culture

"We do not want to advocate drugs, but we have tried it, yes," Carreño confesses and the singer adds: "My mother gets angry when I talk about this." Although the title of the album was chosen for the sonority of the words, they also wanted to pay homage to this traditional indigenous drink that generates hallucinogenic effects. "I had read a lot about her, it's very interesting and we wanted to try the whole group together", explains Bárcenas and says that they were accompanied by a kind of shaman who guided them in the travel and put the right music for the experience. "It's a journey inside you, it's very different from everything else, it's much more powerful than a drug ..." He pauses briefly and continues, "if many of those who decide things in the world take it, things would go best".

Now on tour with this album, they continue to fill all the venues they go to, the last one in the Razzmatazz hall in Barcelona with capacity for 600 people and with the sign of sold out strung up. As in other concerts, as seen on social networks, the flags of Spain and the "Viva España" were frequent during the performance of the group. "I think that many people in Catalonia feel like they are Spanish and there are times they can not even say it," Carreño says, adding: "They have the same right to draw that flag, like the independence flag." "Freedom of expression is based on that, right?" Bárcenas says.

And as freedom of expression seems to have also come into conflict with music in recent months, the group is clear: "Put in jail for what you say in a song we will never see well. This can not become a persecution of artists. " Although Bárcenas emphasizes that "that can not give free way to say in a concert 'we are going to kill civil guards." It refers to the Mallorcan rapper Josep Miguel Arenas Beltrán, better known as Valtònyc, who during a concert last May urged to kill "a fucking civil guard". "Go to another town where there are civil guards and kill one," he shouted after being sentenced to three and a half years for insulting the Crown, extolling terrorism, insults and slander. Shortly after, the rapper fled to Belgium before his imminent entry into prison. "Valtònyc is a cagon and above is more posh than us", declares the singer.

In the same month, a few days after the escape of Valtònyc, the PP's treasurer's son lived one of his worst moments because his mother also entered prison after the court that tried the Gürtel case sentenced her to 15 years and a month for crimes of misappropriation, tax crimes, documentary falsification, money laundering and attempted fraud. 24 hours lasted in the prison of Soto del Real, Madrid, after getting his son to collect 200,000 euros of bail with the help of his friends.

"Prison is a very serious thing. I lived it hard, I was wrong, but I'm never going to cancel a concert or stop doing interviews. I can differentiate very well my personal life with my professional life ", explains the singer and confesses that if he did not have the group, in which he took refuge," I would be much more fucked up by the subject ". "I have many good things in life. I have a very, very bad one, but I prefer to focus on the present. "