There are words that take on a special meaning depending on the moment they are spoken. And there are songs that, without intending to, arrive just when we most need to hear them. Today, Friday 13 November, Elle Belga release «Nuestra libertad», a beautiful song about love, memory and the desire to stop time, as the first taster of «Divina ausencia», their upcoming album, which will see the light of day soon.
In times when even the most basic certainties seem to waver, talking about freedom is also talking about what we love, what we are not prepared to lose and everything that deserves to be defended. And perhaps there is no more beautiful way to do so than from the intimacy of a love song. Because «Nuestra libertad» is precisely about that: about a love capable of leading us to give up everything we possess for a single shared instant; about that impossible desire to recover memory, stop time and make everything go back to how it was. A song that once again demonstrates the extraordinary ability of Fany Álvarez and Josele García to turn the deepest feelings into something close, everyday and universal. With their usual sensitivity, their unmistakable musical language and that poetic concision that has made Elle Belga one of the most personal propositions on our scene, «Nuestra libertad» invites us to pause, to listen and to remember that, above the noise and the uncertainties, there still exist small territories that belong to us. Spaces of affection and memory in which no one should be able to decide for us.
Recorded between Bonberenea, with Karlos Osinaga, and Xixón, by the duo themselves, «Divina ausencia» will mark a new chapter in Elle Belga’s career, a band that, far from fashions and urgencies, has spent years building a body of work as singular as it is moving. There will still be time to discover everything this new record holds. For now, «Nuestra libertad» is already available on digital platforms and arrives to remind us of something as simple as it is necessary: that there are things that only exist as long as we are able to take care of them. And that some, like love and freedom, we should never take for granted.
