The multifaceted artist Luis Eduardo Aute presented this Wednesday morning in Arrecife his latest album, "Self-Portraits Volume 2", with which he opens tonight in Lanzarote his four-day tour throughout the Canary Islands.
For the concert, which will be held from 9:00 p.m. at the Teatro Cine Atlántida, there are still tickets that can be purchased for 20 euros at El Almacén or at the theater itself before the concert.
Aute has just inaugurated a retrospective pictorial collection in Las Palmas, has finished designing a series of animated drawings -"Dog called Pain"-, and has recently published a book of poems -"Animalhada".
"When I have a bit of an overdose in a certain facet and I can't take it anymore, my way of detoxifying is by getting into another mess."
With a smoking pipe and a pack of cigarettes as a convinced detractor of the new Anti-Tobacco Law, Aute confessed, in the company of the Councilor for Culture of the Cabildo, Miguel González, and the representative of the Caja de Canarias, Braulio Pérez, to be one of the singer-songwriters with the most forbidden songs by the Francoist censorship.
Setting aside activities such as painting, photography or poetry, arts for which he said he chaotically divides his time, Luis Eduardo Aute will enchant the Lanzarote audience tonight in a land where he says he has great friends and for which he feels predilection and that inspires reflection and desire to work.
"I really wanted to open the tour in the Canary Islands in Lanzarote, because it is a place that I have a special affection for," he said. "What Lanzarote inspires me is to come and work here. It is an ideal place to be with oneself, to reflect. Apart from its fabulous landscape, it seems like a territory with the precise inhabitants to make it a habitable and human place still, and I, personally, am inspired to come here to work, which is how I really have fun."
Self-portraits
Thanks to the Culture Area of the Cabildo and the Social Work of the Caja de Canarias, the multifaceted artist will recreate in his concert songs from always now rewritten, in addition to some unpublished themes. "Obviously there was a Self-Portraits 1, with songs that people know more, and this second volume includes songs that I have sung little and some other song that I have never sung, but that I like more than the best known ones."
The compilation includes themes that, "for one reason or another, I decided to correct, both in the writing of their lyrics and in sound elements more in line with today's trends." For Aute, a work should always continue "correcting itself over time."
The author of themes such as "Roses in the sea", "Look how rogue you are" or "Red on Black", who announced that there would be upcoming editions of his "Self-Portraits", advanced that his next album, which will include new songs, will be on the street after the summer.
The rogue Aute, one of the precursors of the singer-songwriter phenomenon in Spain since 1966, awaits us tonight in Arrecife.
