Spanish folk smashes the closet

Back in 1999, in the heat of the inopinated and colossal repercussion of his album Tierra de no man (800,000 copies sold), the electronic asturian gaitero José Ángel Hevia formulated an eloquent reflection on the outfits and aesthetic attitudes of the musicians of traditional filiation. “The folkies we have to take more care of our image. Many artists continue to respond to the archetype of the man with a disjointed beard and beaked sweater”, he…