in that psychedelic Seville, guilt and freedom in what seems possible

Fortunately, while other adventure and movement companions fade into obscurity or become more despicable in commercialism or nepotism, Rivas met in Fran G. Matute (Mérida, 1977) investigator/champion able to understand his life and his work with passion and rigor as shown by his foundations This time we are getting a coup (Sílex, 2022) And Quico Rivas: For a revolution in everyday life (Athenaica, 2024).

Matute, filled with perhaps a strange mixture of devotion and knowledge, is responsible for the edition and the prologue What a song can lastan unpublished novel by Rivas. These presentation texts are mainly taken from common places and can be considered salacious or pedantic. In exchange, El de Matute fully agrees to publish this novel written in 1980 in its entirety.

So we know what Rivas himself told the poet Jacobo Cortinesmagazine editor Separatewho had finished a little story of one of his two sheets but was unable to enjoy them and preferred to put them back in the cajon. ON Juan Manuel Bonetrunning buddy, explained that too What a song can last I slept the “premature babies dream” and preferred to follow it while brainstorming.

As we have now revealed, if the characters in the work are hidden behind us, many of them are the sum of the various who “existed, existed or could exist” in that psychedelic Seville, transcending and freed from the late 60s, in which everything seemed possible.

As dark as it seems, the story tames humor, confusion, and deception. The result is highly recommended reading

Written in the first person, the novel is trudging through Madrid one night when the narrator, the story of Rivas (who was named Quico and was also born in 1953), goes to a shack to ask Carlos Pinball, the singer of the imaginary band Pinball, of which our protagonist was the biggest fan. Your voice, your tailored pants, your songs feel like a Proustian Magdalene song that Quico records to distraught youth from the inevitable disenchantment tinged with humor.

A biographical portrait of an entire generation of dreamers addicted (and yearning) to music and drugs, to the novel they follow primeras urban tribes sevillanas (los Cuervos y Las Mancuernas), the first renovated bands (los BreakGongs…), the first experiments with LSD, but also the life in the grain rushes, the first impossible love stories, the first trips and the first discoveries.

That in the end one of the best characters of a kindred expression turned into an evangelist preacher between one and a thousand misfortunes only proves the shadow loyalty to the living as the chronicler of the impossible that Quico Rivas was.

When the story is told, even if it seems dark, it is tamed with humor, confusion and excitement, the result is a most recommended story to read. Mención special goods list of songs the book includes, from Jimi Hendrix to Gongfrom Triana to Lola y Manuel.