On Friday morning at the Ace Hotel in downtown L.A. guitarist Joselo and keyboardist Meme from Café Tacvba met with the press to announce the beginning of their new tour titled “20Re – CT25 Tour” with which the Café Tacvba celebrates their 25th anniversary as a band and the 20th anniversary of their now classic second album, “Re”.
The U.S. leg of the 20Re – CT25 Tour is sponsored by Jack Daniel’s® Tennessee Whiskey, which lately has been very involved in the Latino music market by sponsoring different events throughout the United States.
At the beginning of the press conference Joselo and Memo announced that as part of the celebration of the 20th anniversary of “Re” they will be performing the album live in its entirety during this tour. For many critics, “Re” is “rock en español’s” version of the Beatles iconic “Sergeant Pepper’s Lonely hearts Club Band” album. “Re” is a concoction of musical currents and sounds that has remained unmatched for 20 years.
After the introduction from Joselo and Meme the floor was opened to questions to those present, unfortunately everyone just began shouting out questions in a very disorderly manner until one of the conference representatives jumped in and established some order, unfortunately that didn’t stop the often repetitive and sometimes moronic questions from the main stream media who most likely could not tell the members of the band apart.
However, there were some interesting questions like “When the band is not working as a group, you all have your individual projects, how does it feed back into the band when you get back together again?” to which Joselo responded “it is something that works very well for us, we get together when we feel like it and not because we have to. We all compose and write individually and we will bring those ideas into the group and many times we will coincide in the same idea, other times not. The first time we decided to take a sabbatical, many people thought we were breaking up, but it was the exact opposite because we all got busy creating our own music, some of us produced other bands, some of us created other bands, or sometimes we just didn’t do anything at all and when we all reconvened with Café Tacvba, we came back with a refreshed outlook and new ideas…”
I had the opportunity to ask if the band would be affected in the future after revisiting the album “Re”, to which Joselo responded: “personally, I think I will be, because after revisiting all these songs and really paying attention to what we did 20 years ago, I say ‘wow, we really did something special’, which when we were recording the album, we had no idea that it was going to turn out the way it did, and that’s where the vision of someone like Gustavo Santaolalla (album producer) comes in, because he guided us to places we had not thought of and at the same time this influence that we now feel from this album looking back, can be a tricky situation because you cannot go into a studio and think I am going to create a new masterpiece, because then you are going about it all wrong, you just have to let the ideas and the music flow.”
Café Tacvba will begin the 20Re – CT25 Tour in Miami on October 16th and will take the band through some of the most important cities in the United States and will hit the south land on October 31 at the Pomona Fox Theater and the legendary Wiltern Theater on November 02.
For full schedule of the tour dates, please see below:
Oct 16 Miami, FL: Olympia Theater
Oct 17 Atlanta, GA: Center Stage
Oct 18: Washington, DC: Lincoln Theatre
Oct 19 New York, NY: Stage 48
Oct 22 Chicago, IL: Portage Theater
Oct 23 Wichita, KS: Hartman Arena
Oct 24 San Antonio, TX: Aztec Theater
Oct 25 Dallas, TX: Southside Ballroom
Oct 26 Houston, TX: Bayou Music Center
Oct 27 El Paso, TX: El Paso County Coliseum
Oct 29 Las Vegas, NV: Brooklyn Bowl
Oct 30 San Francisco, CA: The Masonic
Oct 31 Pomona, CA: Fox Theater
Nov 01 Santa Barbara, CA: Santa Barbara Bowl
Nov 02 Los Angeles, CA: Wiltern Theater
