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The reason for La Fábrica de Colores.
About the industry
Is it the group's own idiosyncrasy that leads you to create La Fábrica
de Colores as your own label?
Ramón: The La Fábrica de Colores project started before
that. We tried to fit all our people on the first album, since in those jam sessions
there weren't only people who made music. It was like a little project. Even on
the cover of the first album there is clay modeling which everybody contributed
to. Our artistic need made us decide that we had to take our road. La Fábrica
de Colores became a record label, the platform to come out with our own work with
all that it is, carries with it and means as far as effort. And that redounds
in the fruit you bear in the end, which is more you than the other.
And will it spread in the future to other musical initiatives?
Ramón: You can be ambitious in your head, but you have to be
coherent. We don't come from business holdings; we've always improvised as we
go along to do what we're doing and right now there are only people for Ojos de
Brujo. It's true that the artistic and creative restlessness we have could lead
to more projects, but not for the time being.
Marina la Canillas (Photo: Silvia Calado)
Is it a way to avoid the obstacles of the big industry?
Ramón: There are marked paths and we've skipped one; that of the record
companies. You don't skip that of distribution, for infrastructure and because
you're an artist and what you do after all is to play. You rethink what you want
and what the price you pay is. One thing that is quite clear to us is that the
greater repercussion your work has, the better, but that has its price. I would
love to give the records away, but it obviously can't be done. You have to look
for middle-of-the road alternatives.
The independent route avoids the situation of helplessness suffered by many
flamenco artists...
Ramón: Within the flamenco world, it's harsh that more of the
older artists are in France than here.
Marina: Only what's "in" is bet on, not artists with continuity.
They don't bet on you, don't believe in you; they believe in bank accounts. And
I think that they're wrong.
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