The band says goodbye to their last album on a tour with more than 40 dates in Europe and Spain. Today they present the first preview of the album that will be released in 2026 and with which they celebrate three decades on stage.
Eskorzo will turn three decades next year and celebrate it with an ambitious musical work on which they have been working for the last few years. The album that will commemorate these 30 years of the band from Granada will consist of many of the most celebrated songs throughout his career reinterpreted by artists who are friends and friends who if there is something that unites them in body and soul is their love of music. The first advance of this album is this single of Los besos que me dabas together with El Jose, available on all platforms and released today. Meanwhile, during this year, they say goodbye to their ‘Historias de Amor y Otras Mierdas’ in an intense tour that travels throughout Europe and major Spanish cities.
“We are celebrating 30 years of stories, friendships and passion for music,” explains Tony Moreno, voice of the band. “This project is a gift to us, to you and to all those who have been part of this musical journey.”
This new work -still without a definitive title- is not a compilation as usual: it is an exercise of emotional and artistic memory, a way of looking back with a clean look and an open heart. Songs that change their skin, slow-cooked and with a closer air, more original, more skin to skin.
“We haven’t grown syrupy with age, far from it – Tony adds – we are still the same hooligans on stage. But we wanted to give a different reading to what we usually do. To rediscover our songs from another point of view, to take them to another terrain”.
The first advance of this journey is signed by El Jose, stage partner and fellow countryman, with an exciting live version of “Los besos que me dabas”. Recorded face to face, acoustic and minimalist, this reinterpretation transforms the original cumbión into a folkloric piece that delves into 6/8 time signatures and draws from Afro-Peruvian, Mexican and Andean music. A mixture where guitar, percussion and voice become the protagonists, with echoes ranging from Atahualpa Yupanqui to Mariachi Vargas de Tecalitlán.
“Music is stronger when it is shared with those who love it”, says Tony, summarizing the spirit of an album in which artists and friends such as Bersuit Vergarabat, Chambao, Coque Malla, Amparanoia, Albert Plá, Noni from Lori Meyers, Aitor Velázquez (Hora Zulú), El Canijo de Jerez, Tomasito, Macaco, Muerdo, Francisco el Hombre (Brazil), Macha de Chico Trujillo (Chile) and Nidia Góngora (Colombia), among others.
Closing of a stage, beginning of a celebration
This release marks the beginning of a new stage for Eskorzo, but before that there is one last stop. The band will say goodbye in autumn-winter to the tour of Historias de Amor y Otras Mierdas, their last studio album. A tour that has taken their music throughout Europe with more than 150 concerts and that puts the finishing touch to a chapter to open another very special one: the 30th anniversary, with a new album, new dates and many more surprises to be revealed.
With this first preview, Eskorzo opens the door to a year of celebration, memory and shared music. Because 30 years are not celebrated every day… and even less if they are celebrated as they know how to do it.
What the press says about Eskorzo…
“The songs have a lot of crumbs, but at the same time, songs with committed lyrics, which have even helped us to summarize the current political situation in a lighthearted way”.
CADENA SER
“They are the usual Eskorzo, exploring new and old sonorities, with Tony’s exciting and well-traveled voice at the front. And dazzling once again with their mysterious compass, with their multicolored palette”.
EDUARDO TÉBAR | EFEEME
“Condenses the energy by measuring the tempo of the songs. Take the wildness of ska, mix it with cumbia and corrido, spice it up with a little cabaret and mid-tempo, shake it up slowly and serve it to the audience with heart and guts in hand.”
JAVIER GILABERT : SECRETOLIVO
“Eskorzo, rhythm machine and gear of details. Guitars, bass, drums and percussion, vocals and winds worked in unison to give meaning to some songs”.
JAVIER LOSILLA | EL PERIÓDICO
“It’s one of those bands that have been part of the indie rock musical landscape almost forever, inventors of the ‘mestizo’ sound when that doesn’t mean branded poses or internationalist messages of world peace in the face of the gallery.”
ROCK SESSION
“A real hurricane on stage”
MONDOSONORO
“They have collaborated by containing their dynamism, that boisterous ferocity that characterizes them
(…) they have decompressed the material, but giving more space to the arrangements
and the level of detail, tuning the developments and with a certain jazzy sophistication: precious the
trumpet mutes and the Deodato decoration of the multi-instrumentalist Olmo with the
keys”.
JUANJE GARCÍA | IDEAL DE GRANADA