Luis Piccini: “We can't dedicate ourselves 100% to music because of how the industry moves in Peru”

The Peruvian group Autobus continues to take the next steps to present their fourth album and this time they have presented “Un pendiente”, a song that has the collaboration of the Chilean band We are the Grant. Luis Piccini, vocalist of the national rock band, chatted with Infobae about what they do best: music.

A few months ago you commented that it didn't make sense to present a new song without the opportunity to present it in public. Finally, the wait is over.

Yes, it's just another feeling. I don't compare the feeling of playing live to anything. Although in the pandemic we spend it streaming, live is something else. The only thing that remains is for the restrictions on concerts to be lifted a little more, especially for small spaces.

Did you ever feel the impact of the pandemic on your creative work?

For me, the pandemic made me more productive because you had no choice but to have your guitar in hand making songs. Somehow it made me more methodical with my songwriting process. I set myself a work schedule, something that I imagine artists who are 100% dedicated to music must have.

Is not dedicating oneself fully to music a personal decision or is it motivated by the local musical context?

We cannot dedicate ourselves 100% to music because of how the industry moves in Peru. We don't have the luxury of dedicating all our time to music, although I would like it to be so.

Why does it turn out to be so complicated?

Only those who had hits in the 80s and 90s are those who are fully dedicated to music. There are few cases such as Rio, Amen, Libido, Sea of Copas and some others. Who is to blame? The media like radio stations because they are living from memory. One does not listen to the last of Libido, but “In this room” and one more and the same happens with other bands. If there were an industry in which the media participated by sharing the music of today's artists, we would not have one Sea of drinks, but ten. Radio owners don't realize they have a business they're not exploiting.

However, there have been small attempts to spread the work of new talents.

When the bands we remember today were playing, they were playing on twenty radios at the same time. What makes a band successful is the frequency of its song playing. Those few attempts in recent years to make rock sound on the radio are only on a few stations and once during Sunday. To be successful, it takes a combination of frequency and range.

Speaking of the nostalgia business, the new song “Un earring” brings its nineties touches.

It is a nineties sound, but with details of current rock. It's a different song from what we've been working on, which makes it more interesting because we're releasing an album with different musical styles. We have worked with different producers, which makes each one take the subject where they want it most. In this case they hit the nail on the head with what I wanted to convey. In the end, the album that will come will be a journey with different sensations, but that between the lines will tell a story.

Is this decision to offer a range of sounds aimed at tempting new audiences?

You always go in that direction. If I want to appeal to youth youth I must say that they will not find such a teenage style. What we are doing is well ripe, well set, well produced, well thought out.

To think that at some point the sound they embrace today was the adolescent sound.

Yes, it's true. We're not doing classic rock, it's not music that would play on Felicidad radio. We take into account references of very current bands, but also the classic ones because they have something that always pulls you towards them.

Will the rock they play now soon be the new radio Felicidad or will it survive?

In “La hora del lunchecito” you already hear some songs from The Beatles, so it's going to happen. Pearl Jam or Foo Fighters are already classics that could be played in Oasis and what will happen is that those radios will be the new Happiness. They will continue with the same pattern as now, making them become old radios that smell of rancid, as has happened with several now.

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