With a sound that is a balanced blend of electronic, acoustic and rock guitar music, Lucybell has been compared to Blur, Catherine Wheel and Radiohead. Their critically acclaimed debut, Peces, won them the Best New Group award from the Chilean Association of Entertainment Journalists (APES). 1996s Viajar launched the band to international fame, with the several singles in rotation on MTV and tours that took them to Mexico, the U.S. and Colombia. Lucybell put together their own studio to record their eponymous third album, which they then took to Buenos Aires to mix and to Londons Abbey Road Studios to master with engineer Chris Blair (The Beatles, Radiohead).
The success of the bands fourth studio album, Amanece, clinched their position as one of the most important Latin rock bands in Chile and Latin America, and their live album and DVD, Sesión Futura, along with the Sálvame la vida EP, earned them the Best Group APES award in 2003.
Lucybell is now the best-selling rock band in Chile. With six gold records and a large and faithful fan base, this trio is poised to take on the world.
In keeping with their desire to reach a larger audience, Lucybell moved to Los Angeles, California in April, 2003. They spent the following months composing new material in their Burbank rehearsal studio, and during that time met British sound engineer Adam Moseley (Roxette, The Cure, Kiss). Moseley shared the bands vision of their new sound, so they chose him to produce the new albums first single, recorded and mixed at the Dust Brothers studio The Boat.
Sálvame La Vida was released as an EP in Chile as Lucybell began work on the rest of the album. Lucybell recorded and mixed 12 more songs at The Boat with Moseley, completing the process at the end of 2003. The album reveals an at once more mature and more experimental sound. Guitarist / vocalist Claudio Valenzuela's elegant lyrics and bassist/keyboardist Eduardo Caces' intensive production efforts complete the bands new sound: Lúmina.
Cote Foncea joined the band in 2005, he has a long time relation with Claudio and Eduardo so it was very easy to set the band up, touring all around America immediately. Peru, Ecuador, Argentina, Mexico, Uruguay, Colombia and USA have been regular stops on Lucybell's Touring Schedule.
After almost a year playing live shows, the band started producing and recording (in Estudios Foncea - Chile and panda Studios - Argentina) their 8th Studio album called Comiendo Fuego. This was coproduced with long time friend and producer Adam Moseley. The album went number one in Chilean Charts and was a great star for a complete year of touring and promoting.
The band moved to Mexico City and between 2006 and 2007 they completed a new EP called Primitivo. Six songs and heavy rock mood was the result of the band's 9th Production. Cote, Claudio and Eduardo took care of the production and composing. It was recorded in Chile (Estudios Foncea) and Mixed in Mexico (Jarpa Estudios).
2008 have been a very busy year for the band. They recorded a live show, two days in a recording studio with 200 people per show, 9 cameras, lot of energy, great music, 13 live songs, 2 new studio songs, 4 month post production. Produced by Lucybell, Executive Production by Cote Foncea, Christian Rojas and Pablo Ayala and Directed by Los Felipes (Felipe Foncea and Felipe Sepulveda)... this is called SESION PRIMITIVA and it will be the second live album from Lucybell. It is going to be released in November of 2008 with simultaneous release in Chile, Mexico and Peru.
Flotar es caer
Lucybell Lyrics
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Que forman tus lágrimas
Y yo, siendo tierra que pisar
Si abro los dedos al aire
Tomando un respiro
Ya sabes, fue solo estupidez
Tan solo esperando
Su estúpida detención
Si creo que la única forma
De flotar es caer
Entiende, fue solo estupidez
Tenlo claro, fue solo estupidez
De ayer
La piel se estira y solo se observar
(que fue solo estupidez)
Lucybell's song "Flotar Es Caer" talks about the feeling of being submerged in one's own pain and sorrow, to the point where it becomes hard to see anything else. The song's opening line, "Si me revuelco en el lodo que forman tus lágrimas" (If I roll in the mud formed by your tears), speaks to the idea of being so consumed by another person's emotions that one becomes dirty and covered in their pain. The following line, "Y yo, siendo tierra que pisar" (And I, being the ground to walk on), suggests a feeling of being taken for granted or used by someone else.
The chorus of the song, "Si creo que la única forma de flotar es caer" (If I believe that the only way to float is to fall), is an acknowledgment of the paradoxical idea that sometimes we must hit rock bottom in order to start moving forward again. The repetition of "fue solo estupidez" (it was just stupidity) throughout the song suggests a feeling of regret or shame over past mistakes, and a sense of disbelief that one could have allowed oneself to fall so low.
Line by Line Meaning
Si me revuelco en el lodo
Que forman tus lágrimas
Y yo, siendo tierra que pisar
If I roll in the mud of your tears
And I, being the earth to step on
Si abro los dedos al aire
Tomando un respiro
Ya sabes, fue solo estupidez
If I open my fingers to the air
Taking a breath
You know, it was just foolishness
Si veo rodar la vida
Tan solo esperando
Su estúpida detención
If I see life rolling by
Just waiting for its stupid stop
Si creo que la única forma
De flotar es caer
If I believe that the only way
To float is to fall
Entiende, fue solo estupidez
Tenlo claro, fue solo estupidez
Understand, it was just foolishness
Make it clear, it was just foolishness
De ayer
La piel se estira y solo se observar
(que fue solo estupidez)
From yesterday
The skin stretches and only observes
(that it was just foolishness)
Lyrics © Sony/ATV Music Publishing LLC
Written by: ANDRES VALENZUELA RAM CLAUDIO, AUGUSTO GABRIEL VIGLIENSONI MARTIN, CLAUDIO ANDRES VALENZUELA RAMIREZ, FRANCISCO JAVIER GONZALEZ DIAZ, JAVIER GONZALEZ DIA FRANCISCO, MARCELO PATRICIO MUNOZ PEREZ
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pablo sebastian orellana albornoz
sin duda el mejor tema lleno de atmosferas rabia mentiras sentimientos con melodias que quieres escuchar encerrado en tu pieza sin luz
Ociel Hans Querquezana Villalobos
En esa misma igual u.u
Luis García Muñoz
en esa mismaa estoy
Special Agent Utah
alguien aprendio bien la leccion de Bauhaus y los Cocteau Twins.Sin duda el disco mas infravalorado de la historia del rock latinoamericano.Nadie lo entendio.Bueno,yo si cuando me lo compre,me marco la adolescencia....y si eso es poco...
leocousino
@Jacques Mesrine yo entendí lo que quiso decir la otra persona, pero sentí que el "nadie" era demasiado tajante, con soberbia. No son necesarios los "porotitos". A mi parecer hubiera quedado mejor "poca gente lo entendió", porque pese a que no todo lo masivo que esperábamos, igual estuvimos ahí los que somos fans de "hueso colorado" como dicen los mexicanos, la inmensa minoría que siempre estuvo con Lucybell entendió y se fascinó con ese disco.
Saludos.
Jacques Mesrine
@leocousino "nadie"... a ver, (que haya explicarlo todo con porotitos), me refiero a que no estuvo ni en los primeros 10 discos mas vendidos en castellano ese año en Chile (Shakira y Ella Baila Sola vendian más). A eso me refiero con "nadie"; que no fue el disco masivo que todos hubiesemos querido que fuese ni tampoco vendió más que viajar o peces. Chao
leocousino
No digas "nadie lo entendió" porque a mí me gustó apenas salió el disco. Me gusta Lucybell desde sus comienzos hasta ahora.
Ssen Kard
¡Acabo de enterarme que el mismísimo Robin Guthrie les ayudó a producir Sol Invisible! Es magnífico este disco.
MAGMA SEASON
Special Agent Utah lo invito ya que nos gusto tanto la superband chilena lucybell que si quiere y puede por favor me apoyes en mi canal Magma Season ...inscribiéndote en mi canal canción recomendada DIAMANTE LEON MAJESTUOSO Gracias se que me apoyará un fuerte abrazo desde Madrid
Luis Castro
Como dice la canción, fue solo estupidez no haber valorado lo suficiente a esta banda en su mejor momento.