Doomed Confessionary: Jordi Vaquero & Uri Fabregas (Boveda del Sol)
Boveda del Sol is a doom/post-metal band fron Barcelona, Spain.
After starting this project as a one-man band, Jordi Vaquero (guitar, vocals, synths) published the first Boveda del Sol LP, »Terra Firma« in 2016, the EP »Traveler Between Worlds«, and LP »Fueron cautivados por el fuego« in 2022, Boveda del Sol is back, now as a full band, with Víctor Navarro (Onyric Joy) on bass, Uri Fabregas (Me dicen que queme cosas) on guitar and Marçal Itarte (Margada, Golíat) on drums.
Boveda del Sol’s new album »Collective Unconsciousness« started taking form in 2019, and after a long hiatus forced by Covid, is finally released on May 17th, 2024 in collaboration with Nafra Records. As it is tradition in this project, the new album has been recorded, produced, mixed and mastered by Boveda del Sol. The cover has been made by the Barcelona illustrator Carlos Moran.
Six new tracks that take you through space and time, a trip through the cosmos where gravitational forces and celestial bodies dematerialize us and take us to new sonic realms.
Can you say a few words about your band?
We’re Boveda del Sol, from Barcelona, our music is somewhere between deep low-tuned doom metal and psych space ambient. Think of it as a cold asteroid blindly approaching: beautiful to watch in its apparent slow movement but also a cold impassive destroyer!
What was the biggest challenge for the band?
Going from a one-man band to a full working project was quite challenging, as making music by yourself in a studio makes it quite easy to layer many many things, then you’re just 4 people trying to make 20 things happen at once…it’s not easy, but it ends up being quite fun!
What can you be most proud of so far?
Our last album, it started while this project was still a one-man operation almost 5 years ago, now it is done and it sounds massive, cold, like an unstoppable orbital movement. But that’s just the start, soon live shows are gonna be the answer to thisquestion, we’re confident on that.
What was your biggest regret?
One cannot regret broken legs, global pandemics, human stupidity and the unstoppable passing of time: we finally got here and that’s the important thing!
What was the best concert/tour so far and why?
Nowadays that’s quite easy to answer, as we’ve only appeared live as a full band once, but now we’re releasing our new album, and will start playing more and more! It’s always great to share your music with the audience and see them enjoy it as much as we do.
What was the biggest surprise on the music scene for you?
How open everyone is nowadays to new stuff, I feel like years ago a lot of people were just into one kind of music, even just a few metal sub-genres, and nowadays people seem to be just enjoying as much stuff as they can, and that’s just great!
What is currently in your heavy musical rotation?
Blood Incantation, Imperial Triumphant, Converge, Isis, Sleep, Orthodox, Udol, Santacreu, Bongripper…we could go on and on for many many hours haha!
What was the best advice you’ve ever been given as a musician?
You need more pedals! Always. And synths!
What are your guilty pleasures?
Pleasure is never guilty! Working too much should be! But I mean…food is like one of the 3 best things you can enjoy in life!
Can you say something more about the music scene in Barcelona / Catalonia?
There are many great bands and labels in our scene making great work! Nafra Records is doing a great and necessary job around Catalunya/Barcelona/Vallès to publish and create venues and spaces where metal/psych/garage can get to people. Red Sun Barcelona has been also doing a lot for the alternative music scene especially in Barcelona. Check out bands like Udol, Maragda, Matote, Santacreu, Me dicen que queme cosas, Onyric Joy, Fuzz Forward, to say some of them…the scene in this area is going on strong, but there aren’t really that many venues, sadly some closed and the councils aren’t really helping underground culture that much.
Where can we see you live this year (concerts/tours)?
We’re presenting the album in Barcelona on 29 June, more gigs to be announced recently…
What are your plans for the future as a band?
We already started working on new songs, it’s an exciting challenge to work on music from a different angle, as we are approaching the new stuff as a band for the first time, as the previous songs were written and (mostly) arranged by Jordy as a one-man-band. The plan is to spend in this writing process all the time left from playing live, which we hope won’t be much!
How can people best support your band?
Enjoy it, share it with your people, come see us live, buy struff directly from bands, especially the small ones, so we can all keep it going!
Do you have any message for your listeners?
Get a nice record, put it on the turntable, dim the lights, and enjoy it! It’s one of the few things we can purely enjoy nowadays!
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Bojan Bidovc // music enthusiast, promoter, misanthrop and sometimes a journalist as well