Biography
It's a cold, snowy August morning in Quila Quina, a small town on the outskirts of San Martín de los Andes (Argentina), and the members of Coral Casino can't seem to find a way out of the crisis they've come to solve. But what problems could a boy and a girl on holiday in a cabin on the shores of Lake Lácar, this natural paradise, have? It sounds ridiculous, especially considering that, in recent times, Roque Ferrari and Lara Artesi saw their dream of making a living from music begin to materialise with the release of Lejos, their first album - recorded in Mexico City at the invitation of the label Finesse Records - which made them a reference in the very young local trap scene, either as producer (him) or as vocalist (her). Yet here they are, fighting again because it's been months since they've released a song they both consider to be good.
The idea of arriving in the off-season to this place without electricity or internet, several kilometres away from Roque's hometown due to the snow, was to go inside to find a couple of hit songs that would resume Coral Casino's adventures in dancehall, trap and urban music in general, a path that the duo took after $lytherin, their 2015 experimental R&B mixtape, and then abandoned in Lejos (2018), a coherent set of futuristic ballads. However, the Southern landscape brought back a certain languor, which has little to do with the group's more switched-on side, that which appears on reggaeton bombs like "Chocolate Love" or "Class", a remix by US rapper Ty Dolla $ign. "That's our most flexing track," says Roque. "But, in general, we don't fronteamos," adds Lara.
Without talking "about whores, money and prickly pears", Coral Casino anticipated the local trap explosion and, in a way, that positioned them on the scene. In 2015, long before the genre hit Argentina, Lara collaborated with Kaydy Cain of Spain's Pxxr Gvng on "Guns N' Roses", perhaps the first song that put the duo on the region's urban music radar. While Lejos' songs haven't reached the hundreds of millions of plays of the trap hits here, the two members of Coral Casino are in demand by the genre's performers, and that leaves them less time for the band. Currently, Roque is Duki's right-hand man under the alias of "Orodembow": he was his DJ at the acclaimed Luna Park show, and produced "Mi chain de Roque", among other songs that have yet to be released.
From that demand, Lara and Roque went into a kind of inertia and started to work on the duo's music separately. "María", one of the band's five most listened to songs on Spotify, came out like this: Lara singing by herself at home, straight out of Auto-Tune. When she had to record it in Mexico and the people at Finesse asked her to record the clean vocal first and then apply the effect, she struggled. "I couldn't find the intention," he says. In fact, he cracked under the pressure and burst into tears.
Perhaps that's why the Coral Casino began to feel the need to go back to composing in pairs, as they did when they first met. Of course, that requires time together, and that is the time they are looking for in the middle of the forest in Quila Quina. They need to isolate themselves to recover the everyday life that ignites them, but they can't find it anywhere.
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