Discovering Magdalena Bay's imaginary.
One of the most innovative Synth Pop bands in recent years is, without a doubt, Magdalena Baya duo formed by Mica Tenenbaum and Matthew Lewin In Miami that has conquered thousands of fans around the world and even made their latest album, Imaginal diskappeared in several lists of the best 2024 albums.
This year will finally land in Mexico to perform at the Festival Ax ceremony on April 5 and I could talk with Mica About his first show In our country, his incredible album and several more things.
Imagining the ideal album
Imaginal disk It is wrapped in an environment influenced by science fiction and this can be felt not only in the sound and lyrics of the songs, but also on the cover, videos and shows live. Something that the singer describes as an artistic evolution that they achieved after several sessions.
We start making music and we recorded while we wrote. We are producing while we write the music. So I don't know, we think among the Tour and the shows that we were doing to Mercurial Worldin the pieces of time we had at home, we started writing music and the first song we finished was 'Death & Romance' and that is like established the Mood and the sound world for the album. While we continue writing, it was that certain themes began to highlight and we began to inspire ourselves on the side of the visuals and we always loved the SCI-FIso it was like very natural and everything was happening at the same time. “
Mica and Matthew They are very involved in each aspect of Magdalena Bay. In addition to music, it is they who take care of the concept, edit the videos and even supervise the official merchandise they sell in their shows and site web. Although it would be easier to let a great team from the label take care of such things, to Mica It is a priority to be so aware of the project.
Sometimes it is difficult to release that control a bit. We like to contribute in everything. Obviously after that you drown with so many things, but for us always the worst is when we don't have control and we still don't like it. We prefer not to sleep and have to do a thousand things that something does not feel like us, either the design of a shirt, or the CD or whatever. It is very important that everything feels like Magdalena Bay. We are still Freaks control.
Unexpected influences behind pop
Mica Tenenbaum He also has a fan side. Although she grew up in Florida, she was born in Argentina and speaks a perfect Spanish. If you follow her on Instagram you can realize that she is a big Argentine rock fan, so I was curious to know how her love was born for this music and her favorite disc of that country.
We did roast and I have always finished with the same Argentine rock songs and, I never took the time to get to learn about gender until I discovered the album Modern clicks From Charly García, who is now one of my favorite albums. That is the only album I really entered super to Full and I am obsessed with him yet. “
In addition to his love for Charlythe vocalist also confessed her love for one of our favorite bands since adolescence that she would never have guessed if she had not told me herself.
I when I was pre-you He was super fan of My Chemical Romance. The band was probably a fan of crazy teenage. I didn't do anything crazy, but I had posters, shirts, I dreamed about Gerard Way. It was that type of fan, ”he told me with a laugh.
From Miami to Azcapotzalco
The shows live from Magdalena Bay They are always colorful and full of energy, so I asked me how the process of transferring the concept of Imaginal disk to the platform.
It is always super the last moment. It is a stress. We made the first part of the tour in September, just after the album came out and we were planning it Last Minute But, luckily, we had the visual world of videos as a start and inspiration point. There were already characters, some visuals, ideas and the inspiration for the show live.”
Each of the shows that they play is special thanks to their faithful fans base, who often give them handmade details inspired by their music, as he says Mica Tenenbaum. “Our fans have a lot of talent. They sew divers and hats, they make necklaces and art, it is the most beautiful. ” However, a concert of his last tour stands out from the rest:
Latest show that we play from Tour It was in Miami, and that was very special because we raised there and was the whole family, all the friends, friends of high school, of elementary school, that 1000 years ago we do not see them. That was very special, it was a Homecoming Show very pretty.”
In addition to your own Tour, Magdalena Bay It will also open some concerts from Halsey In North America. Being a pop star a little further from the circle in which the duo is usually found, I asked him Mica How to give a show as openings compared to your own.
“It's super different. We have not touched a lot of Opening slots And those we play were, for example, more recently to Caroline Polachek and Charli XCX. Especially in him show of Caroline Much of their fans already knew our music or is like quite aligned with their fans, makes sense. For Charli Also, but not so many people, and for Halsey There will be many people there that would surprise me if someone knows us. So, I don't know, you're prepared so that they probably don't dance, they probably don't know the lyrics, but the idea is that they will discover your music and that is fun too. ”
Last year Magdalena Bay He was touring the United States with the Mexican band Valgur as a special guest on some dates. The fact that they include a Mexican act of the emerging scene on his tour is worth applauding, in addition to the experimental pop of Juchitán is perfectly with the experimental of the Miami duo. Mica He shared the story behind how they met this act Mexa
I love it, I love it! I loved him show And we discovered them because they sent us a e-mail. We were just looking Openers For ours Tour There was a stretch that we had no one. I think the other bands had already organized them, but there was like a hole on the dates that they could not touch. And nothing, they just showed us the e-mail From someone who works with Valgur, and I heard his music. “
Magdalena Bay and Valgur will be found again in the poster of Ax ceremonywhere Mexican fans of Mica and Matthew You can first listen to the songs of Imaginal Disk, Mercurial World and some of its several EPS.
We are very excited, we want to play Mexico so I don't know what we are going to do. We are going to touch the festival, we have not planned the Setlist Still, but it's going to be fun! ”
The first visit of Magdalena Bay Mexico is one of the presentations that decorate the incredible Lineup of Ax ceremony. Do not miss your set on Saturday, April 5 and enjoy the great talent, color and creativity that Mica and Matthew They bring to the stage.
