“In the background I live in cinema, but I’m old enough to still have things to do,” jokes Florent, who is Florent Muñoz, but he has reached that status of legends in which a surname is not needed, a first name is enough. It happens to him, it happens to Jota. 31 years ago they formed together The planets And the rest is history. However, after three decades of letting his friend show his face while he and his guitar hid between his sunglasses and the shadow on the side of the stage, Florent has decided to come to the front line with Florent and mehis first solo album that features this Thursday, September 14 at the El Sol room in Madrid.
The curious thing about the album, beyond the leading role of a vocational secondary, is that it completely distances itself from the image that any music fan associates with the Granada-born man with a well-known story of intensity, drugs and complexity. Florent and me It’s an album… happy? “I have never been a dark guy, if anything self-absorbed. My life has been what it has been and here I am, very happy. Why not go to make an optimistic album? I really enjoy playing, I always have. Damn, “I’m a happy guy,” reflects who, despite the luminous tone of the songs, cannot hide being who he is as soon as the guitar plays. Those songs are not Los Planetas, but they couldn’t be from anyone else either.
“I composed the album during the pandemic, in those moments when we couldn’t help but think that life is four days and that you can’t allow your insecurities to be chains that prevent you from doing what you want. For me, in that sense, the pandemic was good for me. I wrote the songs thinking about Los Planetas, but then they stayed there and I decided that either I was going to record them or no one was going to record them. I can’t be happier for having done so,” Florent concludes.
On Thursday in Madrid the focus will be pointed directly at Florent for the first time. “I don’t know, man, I’m really excited… and a little scared,” he laughs. And, as in that mythical promotion of Ninotchka in 1939 (“Garbo laughs!”), that’s the news. Florent laughs. And with reason.