Migue from ‘Antílopez’: “For those of us who don’t have the budget to travel to outer space, we only have to travel to inner space”

The Antílopez duo (José Félix López and Miguel Ángel Márquez) separated after more than 25 years of joint career “due to the need to stop, take perspective and explore new creative ideas and solo projects,” they said. With this new individual adventure, Migue de Antílopez opts for his own, warm and emotional sound, mixing what he does best: flamenco pop, author song and traditional social portrait with current sounds. Migue presents himself as an emotional chronicler of his time, portraying everything from love to precariousness, from satire to tenderness, the depths of everyday life. “Yo, mi, me… con migue”, is his first solo summary, with “everyday observations and reflections that oscillate between the poetic and the absurd. Stories that are born from the small to talk about the universal.” On Friday at the Plantabaja.

— Migue ‘de Antilopéz’… It’s a good and stately ‘surname’ and forever, like diamonds?

— (Laughs) I don’t know, but when I released my book “The Poet’s Son of His Mother,” my editor recommended that name to make it easier for people to associate with the artist, and I kept it.

— We saw him when they won the Carlos Cano contest in Granada… Why did they separate at such a good time?

— Wow, how much it has rained. Exclusively for the reasons we put in the statement, the desire to take 100% of our creativity without thinking as a whole and perhaps letting out the different men we have become over the years. So as not to reproach us for anything tomorrow, saying “I didn’t do this for you or so-and-so.”

—In the distribution of assets, what did ‘Anti’ or ‘López’ share?

—The public will say it (laugh).

— ‘Yo, Me, Mi Con Migue’ It’s a bit… masturbatory?

—For those of us who don’t have the budget to travel to outer space, we only have to travel to inner space. And it has been on that journey towards myself where I have discovered where to direct my revolution. And it is towards others. We need each other. And that whole hackneyed idea of ​​”freedom” as a concept shocked me. Now I know that to be free they have to grant us freedom and that’s what I’m going to do, continue working on it, creating my community to share my ideas with them and allow me to be as free as possible in my shows and my albums.

—And once the thing is started, when he looks to the right and… he is completely alone after so many years… He’ll tell me…

— Well, the first dates there was a slight loss of confidence given that it has been many years, but in the talks I did a good training, those little talks that I did for 70/80 people in which I presented my album before it was published and full of closeness and stories of the work and opinions and revelations. Later I started bowling and I have three musicians who are the best company. We have a chemical in that van.

— You have also been seen at big festivals, and things, against all odds, worked very well. How do you handle those return to square one and the local concerts?

— I’m not starting from scratch, but I am starting by breaking ground with another new project and working hard again to convince whoever decides to come and experience me. I am very happy. It’s all very authentic and very true. Furthermore, telling my story there is no one like me. (Laughs) I’m the best at that.

— I also tell you this because the improvised verbal communication part of you is very important…

— I follow my ball commenting, stopping and interacting where I think it is appropriate or a wake-up call or gag. In my shows I continue to interact with people and apart from a script, of course there is room for improvisation.

— He dedicates a song to her. This… your manager is also from ‘Huerva’, like the legendary ‘Carlitos, Matías, Rafa and Nono “with his ponytail”?

— (Laughs) No, my manager is from Móstoles, raised in Murcia, although he has been in Andalusia for many years and right now this land is the pillars of his being. The less you resist this idea, the better in harmony you will live. It often happens that non-natives do not realize how much this soil gave them. I have a slogan saved for a spot of the Junta de Andalucía and it is a reality “Andalusia feels good” “Andalusia gives you”. Whoever tries it, succumbs and is reborn.

—The fact that he likes Kiko Veneno is obvious, but I also find a lot of Carlos Cano less serious (if he ever stopped being that way).

— Kiko, Sabina, Krahe, Auserón, Martirio, Raimundo, La Cabra Mecánica, Flamenco and carnival. I grew up on that. From there I drank. And many more.

— Paul McCartney’s last tour played almost half an hour of Beatles songs… Have you been warned that you will not be able to leave behind your usual songs until death do you part?

— Not only do I know this, but I have based the show’s journey on the most successful new and previous ones, with room for requests and oddities. There will be an acoustic part only on guitar with the public, before the final stretch at full speed. Don’t stop coming, especially because I know that it is orphaned from everything we are talking about and there is not much to choose from in the panorama (laugh). @miguedeantilopez