Produced by Carlos Raya, The Picasso Towernew single from Bogota is burningis the last chapter of Cowboys of A3Throughout this week they have been leaving us clues, some chords and a tarot card that left us with very high expectations.
This Friday we discovered that it is a 8:04 minute song (we already know what these numbers refer to), something unusual today with a strong reflective charge that they themselves wanted to explain by putting themselves, first of all, in context: “Picasso Tower It is a Madrid skyscraper designed by the Japanese-born American architect Minoru Yamasakiwhich at the time was the tallest skyscraper in Madrid and Spain.”
“The dictionary has seven definitions for the word monument. Almost any of them will do to explain the Picasso Tower, but let’s use the first one: “A public and patented work, in memory of someone or something.” What if the Picasso Tower had become a monument to commemorate stress, adult life, the grey future…?“They pointed out about the emblem of labor that a building in the capital like this one, full of offices, represents.
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The meaning of this tower
“This is a fable about the stages of grief, about eliminate the symbols that embitter us and on the usefulness of the effort to proceed with its demolition. Because soon the doubt will arise as to whether it is worth it, whether it will change anything. Because the real importance of a monument does not reside in the concrete from which it is formed, but in the memory of the person who invokes it and in the wounded heart of the person who observes it,” they explained about its meaning.
“Perhaps the most accurate path is to build inside those of us who cannot see the sun because of a tower. Even if it does not serve much purpose. Even if it only serves the essential: to unite again”, they ended by explaining this concept.
Reactions
And there are many who have fallen in love with the song and the video clip, starting with Long live Sweden: “What @arde_bogota has done with The Picasso Tower It's fucking genius and we can only take our hats off to them. An 8' journey through the most classic and influential rock that transports us to the best references, to the originals. Congratulations, my dear 🙌❤️”. They are not the only ones who have taken their hats off to such a great song.
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