Simón Saieg: from the rebel Poxyran of Perras On The Beach to the single project

Simón is vegan, empathetic and sweet. He speaks in Mendoza’s soft tone. Son of artisans, he grew up in the Plaza Independencia fair of his own province. Who uploaded psychedelic videos to YouTube under the pseudonym ‘Simón Poxyran’; the disrespectful to Bitch on the beach. Musician. Artist. young father. Tao.

Simón Saieg is just 24 years old, a former band that has become the young face of Indie rock in the country, a record under his last name and a family he formed with Camila and her baby Astro. It also brings a lot of peace when speaking.

On March 6, when he appeared in Niceto, he did so under a new identity: Doppel Gangs. There, in front of a hundred people, what was the beginning of a new era for Simón was conceived and born.

It was also the reunion and final farewell of Bitch on the beach with a surprise appearance on stage by all its members. People cried, sang, shouted. He is informing and also preparing for Saieg’s transformation.

“In mid -2018, I was not active as a solo artist, but I began to think of myself as Doppel Gangs. The name comes from doppelgänger, meaning ‘doppel’ is double and ‘gänger’, walker. The doppelgänger is a physical alter ego, ”Simón said enthusiastically in a phone conversation with Clarín.

me and the rest of myself

“I’m not anymore, I’m your reflection. They say I speak like you, but I don’t understand. If the little I learned was when you got lost in the mire of that thirst, I’d never come back.”, Sings Niceto Simón Saieg doppelgängertheme dedicated to his late father. It was a sensitive, magical moment.

That’s where it all starts. From her artisan father, from the love and complicity of her mother, from the fairs, from the songs of María Elena Walsh, from the constant search for her voice and her identity. Many tell him that he looks like his father and there Simón found, in googling, the German term that has now borne fruit in his new personality.

“There’s a legend that you’ll find your doppelgänger literally similar to yourself, a younger version or a more adult version. All one day I found on the internet seemed surprising to me. Far from Believe it or not, I reinterpreted it and made my first album Saieg“, bill.

“The subject doppelgänger talk about my dad who died when he was very young and talk about meeting my father by myself. See him in me and see me in him “, the former Perras member reflected in a relaxed phone conversation Clarion.

Double grew up in conjunction with his music. He evolved through his art through the professionalization of his work. Let’s be honest, it all started like a joke. Simón Poxyran is the “guachín who doesn’t care about anything”, to make psychedelic YouTube videos to have fun with friends.

Then came the idea of ​​merging a band his brother Juan Saieg -dating You Show Me- and friends whom they baptized in the name Bitch on the beach, and his purpose was to speak the same language of his hearers, to disturb, ‘geder’. Something like making a common language in that adolescent hormonal fury that unites them with their audience.

rebellious and sensitive

The name of the band’s first album reflects that rebellion: sabungero (2016) and followed Whose Flow (2018). After all, art has an end in itself: to make us uncomfortable, it invites us to reflect. That turned out to be good for them they made noise and suddenly played at different festivals.

Bitch on the beach it raised a generation of rebellious teenagers who rocked here in the pogos, who wanted to spit out its truth. This lasted as long as it had to last until Simón decided to become a soloist.

Sa Saieghis first solo album, we listen to an introspective Simon who tells much of his personal story. That was in 2017 and then came the change, the mutation from a caterpillar to a butterfly -simbolically- or the evolution into another species. There, in 2018 he was born Doppel Gangs.

“The project is conceptual and audiovisual, it’s called Doppel Gangs kasi there is a fictional character called Double. This is a new variation of the term doppelgänger“, details.

“I will Atlas which is my first album as Doppel Gangs, which is the origin of the project. I will continue to put out projects and everything seems to be a continuation of the same story. For it is a legend, as it were starwars Y Double is the main character ”, hints at his next work.

Atlas summarizes Doppel’s life through fiction. Spoiler alert: one of the songs will have the phrase “truth is always stranger than fiction”. The album comes to synthesize his moments of ecstasy of happiness, but also of supreme sorrow, the struggles he carries on his shoulders such as anti-speciesism, veganism and permanent deconstruction.

“Name Atlas it came because it was a map in another dimension and the album had to do with it. I can’t spoil any more, “he stopped, replied, and laughed.

Art as a family union

Her parents met at the Plaza Independencia de Mendoza fair. His mother was dazzled by an artisan who later formed a family in which Simón and Juan Saieg would be born.

The father died when they were both young, but now Saieg has formed a containment herd along with other artists friends who have long been family. The common ones, like Lucca Beguerie Petrich, and those who have joined over the years: his fiancée Camila Rodríguez and his sister -in -law Vera Spinetta.

Together they spend the whole day improving the songs and making way for the little ones: their baby Astro and their nephew Azul. The little ones -in the midst of exploring the world- are encouraged to play some guitar strings as well. continue the family heritage: listening to María Elena Walsh.

“I think I reconnected with him as an adult, and I saw a very political side: he said things that at the time no one dared to speak. He was a lesbian, a feminist and she speaks in the midst of the dark and gloomy. reality of la Argentina “, she reflects on her musical influences in her childhood.

Simon accidentally sang where are the poets in the middle of him set the list in his presentation to Niceto. Perhaps he is trying to remind us of a saying of every artist: “Poets never sell themselves or lie.”