Inside the uPlaya Music Universe®: Bizarre
Bizarre have won numerous awards, including being nominated for Los Premios de la Musica. Bizarre maintains fans all over the world, including Spain Bolivia, Chile, Mexico and the United States. The six person pop band accumulated a passionate following online and through tours on both sides of the Atlantic, including London and New York. Bizarre’s “Un Segunda Mas”, was played in the season finale of the hit TV show, “90-60-90”, a drama appearing on Antena 3 TV, one of the major television channels in Spain.
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uPlaya.com: Tell us about your fans.
Bizarre: Our music is different from most of the rest of music that you can find. We use a lot of guitars and our style has something to do with Coldplay, Keane, or even Nirvana, sometimes. The thing is that people who like this kind of bands can find in us the same type of music but in their own language, plus we put lots of feelings and power in our songs and we think that can be perceived by them.
uPlaya.com: What draws people to your music?
Bizarre: Our compositions are written, played and performed with lots of passion and strength and that is captured in our music. Most people are not indifferent when listening to something with heart and a lot of effort. We always try to include variety in our albums and not to repeat structures or rhythms.
uPlaya.com: Why do you perform the type of music that you do?
Bizarre: That is such a difficult one! We can just say that what we do is what it really comes from our soul. I don't think we could do another kind of music, for better and for worse.
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uPlaya.com: Tell about your most recent performance.
Bizarre: The last performance was in a new venue located in Tordera, it was an electric performance and we had a huge screen just behind us projecting our music videos. We had a lot of fun. Plus, the backstage was located 2 floors under the stage, so we entered the stage from the lift, a really curious situation. It was a good experience.
uPlaya.com: What new projects are you working on? What can we expect in the future?
Bizarre: Our most recently project is our second Album. It will be released in the summer of 2010. We called it ZERO because we consider that it's been a long time since we released our first album and so now we are starting from scratch (in Spain we say "we start from zero"). We can even say it for the songs themselves, because they are very different from each other, but they all have a Bizarre's touch. Moreover, we had the opportunity to work with Robert Funk, from New York, a great musician who used to play as a trombonist with Rolling Stones, James Brown, etc.
uPlaya.com: How did you meet Robert Funk?
Bizarre: In 2008, we took a small tour in New York … during one of our rehearsals, Bob was nearby there and he listened to our music. He liked it, so we started to talk and we set a friendly relationship. … Some months later, we thought it could be a good idea to ask him to collaborate with us, and he did!
uPlaya.com: How does uPlaya help you in the song selection?
Bizarre: The first thing I did when I finished the song was to analyze it with uPlaya! Since we discovered your software, we feel supported by a mathematical information that helps us to choose the right way. We definitely trust it and we keep on using it.
Bizarre consists of Javier Garcia (vocals and guitar), Meritxell Marin (vocals), Jordi Bonastre (guitar), Alfonso Montaño (keyboards), Manuel Garcia (bass), Billy Purdie (drums)