One of the most consolidated rock bands on the national scene is San Pascualito Rey, a lineup that has built a very important sound legacy. However, in the creative processes of a group as emblematic as this one, chiaroscuro is inherent to it, as it happens with any other musical project, except that San Pascualito Rey allowed itself to be vulnerable and show the public both positive and negative aspects in the development of a record material, in this case the one that the band published in 2017 under the name “Todo Nos Trajo Hasta Hoy”, but also the crisis they went through before and during that period of time.
The film project, developed by Yulene Olaizola, Rubén Imaz and Luis Flores Rábago, was shot in 2016 while following San Pascualito Rey in his presentations and in the creative work of this album. The protagonists are Pascual Reyes, Juan Morales, Alex Otaola, Luca Ortega and the producer of that album, Camilo Froideval.
EL INFORMADOR spoke with Pascual and Rubén about this documentary that will be seen within the framework of the Guadalajara International Film Festival (FICG) in the “Cinema Libre” section. The film had already recently premiered in the city for the In-Edit México documentary music festival.
Returning once again to Perla Tapatia to present this film, for Pascual it is like returning to his second home. “There has always been a very interesting music scene and (Guadalajara) has always been a very important space for usin addition to the fact that there are very important journalists and chroniclers of music from all over the country”.
Regarding what it has meant to present this documentary where the creative complexities and human relationships are captured at the moment of launching a new album, Pascual responds: “It is interesting because it is not a documentary in which we glorify ourselves, but quite the opposite, It’s a documentary on a moment of crisis for the band, from about six years ago, and how we dealt with it in a recording studio. And it’s been complicated in the sense that it’s weird for us to see ourselves on screen when we’re not necessarily ourselves anymore. I am no longer the same Pascual who is on the screen, that is what I mean, but without a doubt many bands, or those who have musical projects, well they also go through moments of crisis and the important thing is to overcome and move on, as has been our case”.
Regarding what reflections he draws from his creative processes as an artist, based on the fact that he is not the same as at that time, he notes that his work as a musician and lyricist always goes hand in hand with his personality. “So, as I change my personality, the discourse also changes, the point of view of the songs of where they are being written and how they are being written, as well as what I am writing them for. I can’t separate my creative side from my personal side. So as I’m evolving in a certain direction, the music and the lyrics are going that way.”
Rubén Imaz also talks about the moment that was for them as filmmakers, filming San Pascualito Rey. “It was very surprising, it was like living a kind of movie where you enter with an expectation and then the movie is showing you something else and maybe you don’t understand it, but then you do and in the end you understand what was happening”.
One of the most consolidated rock bands on the national scene is San Pascualito Rey. SPECIAL/San Pascualito Rey
He expresses that the filming process took time, “when we were recording the raw (material) with them, the original idea and what gave the seeds of the documentary – which was the fact of recording in the studio where the fourth album was made. of the band, which was the one that brought us to today– we got there with some relationship with the band that we had made a video clip with them and they collaborated with us in the movies, we are friends, but we had never been so deep in the intimacy of San Pascualito Rey, we were always on the side of the fans and suddenly we were there recording with a lot of emotion, wanting to do well and learning a lot”.
But during the filming, the filmmakers noticed situations where there were “some coldnesses” and they came to think that perhaps they were making them uncomfortable, “but maybe we also help them not to be harsher with each other and to be more cautious and focused , I don’t know, but they took care not to show it to us, however, we felt something and it was something that later time made us see what happened, there were creative differences”, he highlights that the personal differences also came from there, from what creative, “the band was hanging by a thread about to completely change lineup,” he stresses. Reviewing the material, they began to devise the narrative and then reconstruct the facts in order to tell the story.
In the documentary, you can also see how Pascual exercises giving in and not taking full control of the decisions of the creative process of the album that they were developing at that moment. “It is part of a gradual change, when I started the band I was like a controller of everything. And surely the lineup changes that have occurred have surely been for that reason. Also as one grows their priorities change, before the group was my everything, my first and my last, and over time you realize that you cannot live for a project and around it, life is much more than that, it is enjoy it, with the family, the children… And part of that learning has somehow affected San Pascualito Rey for the better in a good way.”
He says this in relation to the fact that he now sees being part of the band from a more playful experience and that he now enjoys playing much more than before, as well as rehearsing, “now I let myself go, of course, there is an ignition force of the band and mobility, that is, I am usually the one who moves things to make them happen, but I no longer move them from start to finish, or possibly I just move the first stone and the others join in pushing it. Surely if I hadn’t had that learning process of giving in, there probably wouldn’t be a band anymore.”
San Pascualito Rey will also perform in concert next Friday, June 2 at 9:30 p.m. at the C3 Stage, will present the show “Suffer Sufro Sufro XX Años”. The film will also be presented in Mexico City at the UNAM Film Festival and in an outdoor screening at the Cineteca Nacional. It is intended to achieve a distribution of the tape towards the fall.
Schedule of the documentary Sunday, June 4 at 5:40 p.m. in room 2 of the Cineteca FICG. Monday June 5 at 8:00 p.m. in Rambla Cataluña.
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