Conversaciones con Javier Ruibal

Four decades of songs endorse Javier Ruibal, one of the most original and decisive creators of Spanish music. Since the initiatory Duna (1983), the Cádiz-born musician has carved out a solid career embodied in his own and third-party albums, ratified with the National Prize for Current Music in 2017 and the Goya for best song in 2020 for "Intemperie", composed for the film of the same name by Benito Zambrano. Walking firmly on the margins of the industry, the always restless Ruibal has broken with the stereotypes of the author song to become a genre in itself, with records as irrefutable as the revealing and influential Pensión Triana (1994). A voice of its own that becomes even stronger in this dazzling book of conversations signed by Luis García Gil, a writer and great connoisseur of his work, as he already demonstrated in Javier Ruibal, más al sur de la chimera, published in 2012. In Conversations with Javier Ruibal, musician and author sit in front of the sea of ??Cádiz to go through forty years of records and memories, stopping at essential stations in his songbook, such as "La rosa azul de Alejandría" or "La flor de Estambul", and reflecting on the way journey, poetry, the sense of craft and the world he inhabits. A living and complicit story that clearly captures the creator's gaze, rediscovers the value of his work and shows why Ruibal is unique.