This new band from Cedeira has just debuted with its namesake “Lunamotos” (Family Spree Recordings, 23), featuring a garage-punk sound that places them as one of the bands to take into account within the Galician scene of 2024
Lunamotos is your debut album, but what about before the album? How was the project born?
Like so many other things it all started with a few beers and a free afternoon. Me (Garrote) and Dani have another band in common, and we met up to laugh for a while, we cut each other and recorded some songs. Everything came out too easy so it had to be solved. And who better than the buzziest fucking drummer on the Galician coast! Camilo spent a day and another topic in 5 minutes. Finally, Luigi joined in on the keyboard and that’s when everything became more real. As soon as the organ sounded we all knew where things were going to go.
In a small town like Cedeira, it must be difficult to find musicians with similar tastes when making such a specific type of music, right?
The truth is that it is not easy. There are many musicians, very good, too good and all of them very open to doing new things and trying everything, but that feeling of listening to the same records all your life is only had with a few, and in the end it shows in the final result. .
The album sounds very powerful, were you able to capture in the recording what you sound like live?
We weren’t looking for that, but in the end it can be said that we unconsciously adapted our live shows to the way the album sounds. In the future it would be cool to be able to separate these two parts more and make an album in one way and a live performance in another, two different experiences but with the same pattern.
How do you see the fit of a project like yours in the current scene?
Well, for now we see it much better than we expected, everything is going well, and we hope to continue, which is always the most complicated. The truth is that we want to differentiate ourselves a little from everything, not be too punk or too garage. Come on, I wish we could get closer to what the Mummies do.
This sounds like it has to be overwhelming live, what are your concerts like?
That’s what we try. In any case, we change and test things often, this way we guarantee that they are not too repetitive. What will never be missing is cane, fuzz and wild keyboard
“We unconsciously adapt our live performances to the way the album sounds”
How do you plan the presentation tour? Will you do venues or do you think it is more suitable for festivals?
The presentation tour began in September, until today we have played a lot throughout Galicia, and one weekend in León and Vega de Espinareda. Everything is coming out very cool, the album is being liked and things continue to come out. There are some festivals out there, which we will announce later.
What is your relationship with new technologies? Do you pay a lot of attention to social followers, Spotify listeners and the like?
Well in these times there is no choice but to pay attention. Now this is required and what remedy. It’s not our favorite thing, but we try to make it fun.
How do you see the scene in Galicia at the moment? And in Cedeira? Is there movement?
Right now there are a ton of bands in Galicia, and the same in Cedeira, but very different in terms of styles, something that is culturally great, but that does not favor the establishment of a dominant scene, whether garage, punk or Most holy Mary, do you understand?
What other Galician bands do you like or which ones do you see yourself reflected in?
Being from Cedeira means that you have many local references, Os Maruxa, Os Reboiras, Studebakers, Scumbags… but what makes us tick and they were the fucking masters for a long time are the fucking Rock-a-Hulas. In fact, we cover “Oh Yeahh” from their first EP.