Mario C. Vaises (Svdestada – vocals)
SPB: The artwork for Candela is a very striking photo. What is the story behind this picture?
Vaises: For our first album we commissioned some images based on ideas we had in mind. At that time, the photographer established some parameters (female model, emotional intensity, recognizable color range...) that we have followed in subsequent albums. In Yo soy el mar, the main element was water and the colors were green and brown. In Azabache we chose mud and black and for Candela we wanted fire and red. On this occasion we commissioned the photos to a friend of us, the photographer David Olmos, who contacted Teresa Yoldi, a tango dancer, for an improvised session in which we tried many ideas using one of the red spotlights and the smoke machine that we usually take to concerts. We wanted something simple, where Teresa's body expression and the red light would be enough to fill the cover. The stage was basically a continuous background and a piece of red cloth. We were looking for theatricality and a certain artistic metalanguage (dance, theater, poetry...). In the end we achieved a very satisfactory result, something like the dance of fire, an image that resonates in a certain way with our own folklore.
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