Rüfüs Du Sol: from Australia to Argentina, with a Grammy in between

Australian Rüfüs Du Sol has been in their songs as synthetic and emotional one of the names to be remembered in the electronic scene around the world. So this year they won a Grammy for Best Dance/Electronic Recording for their song life beating people like James Blake, Bonobo, Tiësto and Caribou.

After a successful passage through lollapalooza 2019 editionreturn to Buenos Aires this Tuesday, May 17, to play alongside Monolink at Mandarine Park (tickets via the Ticketek system).

In the middle of a break from touring and from his home in Los Angeles, a pleasant and spontaneous Tyrone Lindqvist -guitarist and vocalist of the trio complemented by Jon George (keyboards) and James Hunt (drums)-attended the Clarion excited to return to the dynamics of the tour.

strong hearing

-What do you remember about your previous visit to Argentina?

-We stopped somewhere near the river. Regarding the show, we are very excited this is our first show in South America. We know the audience here is very noisy and enthusiastic. The greatness of the show.

-That time was at Lollapalooza and now on his own show. Which of these two situations is more suited to Rüfüs Du Sol?

Well, they’re just different. I mean, I love playing a show where I’m not headlining, I have nothing to lose and I have to gain new fans.

Very good, they usually put us in the sunset time slot, which is my favorite time to play, the transition between day and night. There are things that get wild and interesting, the stage lights appear.

But the shows on our tour are also good because we play two hours or more, put all the songs we want and we can take the public on a kind of journeyIt’s not like playing one-on-one.

back on the route

-I understand that the re -tour will be an important event. How do you see the pandemic from today’s perspective?

-We are very grateful to be back on the road. We loved to play and write music and it was very hard to stop for two years.

For me personally, I have a two-and-a-half-year-old boy, well, it was like a miracle because I was able to share all those days with him and watch him grow. I don’t know what would happen if I was on tour all the time. Now he is three years old and he knows I am his father! (laughs) The tour is different for us now. We had been away for three months, now no more than one and a half.

It’s also good to write music without a deadline, that’s cool.

-How would you explain the influence of nature on group music? Does it have anything to do with being from Australia where nature is present?

–We love that world between digital, computer, electronic art, and the organic universe, trees, plants, birds, as a living thing. The views, the ocean.

All of that is very important to us, because we play instruments, we have vocals in our music as well as analog synthesizers, processed drums, rhythm machines. There is a very interesting world between those two places.

In our videos there is nature. Many of the lyrics speak about nature. We mixed all of these themes into angular electronic sounds.

– You moved from your native Sydney to live in Los Angeles, how did the same city influence your music?

-In Australia there is a radio station called Triple J, which sounds all over the country. They play all kinds of music there: metal, hip hop, electronic, indie. We grew up hearing that every day. We were exposed to a lot of music and found things we liked in many genres.

As for Los Angeles, they are like two sides of a coin. On the one hand It’s the city of big dreams, of opportunities and then pretty dark. It can suck you up and spit on you in terms of partying for example, it’s easy to get lost in your mind in Los Angeles.

But it’s also a place where you can find a lot of creative people: producers, composers, other types of artists. Many people make art and music; which somehow always influences you.

The importance of the Grammys

-How did you win a Grammy? How did you receive such praise from the music industry?

-Amazing. We’ve been in the band for 12 years and we’ve always worked with the same person. It meant a lot, and once we were called to receive the award, alas, it was surreal. Like being nominated for two Grammys three years ago. Coming from Australia, we didn’t see that as a possibility..

The whole sequence is like a dream, as if unreal.

It’s nice to have recognition of anything, but it’s particularly surprising because the other people nominated have influenced us; it is a great honor.

-And speaking of success, in Rio de Janeiro you will play at a festival where a world music icon like Gilberto Gil plays before you. I thought, what does success mean for Rüfüs Du Sol?

-Success for me is be happy doing what we want. The songs we do, we write together, the three guys we make up, make and play different instruments, and we’re happy to do it.

And then when we finish a song, we sit down for like three months, we cover it again and if we still like it, well ok, then it’s out. This is important, because we will cover these topics for the rest of our lives, right?

So we want to make sure we like it and it’s realistic, that we feel the connection.

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