Twanguero’s 2023 Christmas tour passes through Albacete today. Diego García will be at the Municipal Auditorium, from 9:30 p.m., to offer a concert. The guitarist and composer told La Tribuna de Albacete some aspects of this Highways tour. Volume II.

Get a new recording.

That’s right, a record, Backroads. Volume II which I have not yet presented in Albacete, although it has already been shot in Spain and Portugal this year. The truth is that Albacete is a city that I visit with every album that I release and I want the people of Albacete to hear what’s new.

How is this volume two of Back Roads?

Backroads is like a series of records that I take on a trip. This specific trip is in the jungle, because I went to Costa Rica during the pandemic, four months in a cabin, I took the equipment and it’s like a tribute to the forest, to the trees, where the guitars. Since it wasn’t easy to meet my musicians and I’m not the type to do things from a distance, I made a solo album. It’s a Spanish guitar album with more South American tunes and has to do with nature and wood, in a natural environment. I don’t know many people who have done this sort of thing.

Are you also going to review your previous albums in concert?

Yes, we are going to play the repertoire and, say, in the middle of the concert, I do this part of Costa Rica, acoustically. The concert starts electric, with a component of more dance and party music and with this more intimate part. The whole range of sounds.

His name, Twanguero, responds to a characteristic guitar sound.

Yes, the twang is like an onomatopoeia in English, when a string vibrates. The twanguero is the one that makes the strings vibrate and then, in the more southern styles, surf, country, the twang is like the oriental nasal sound of the guitars. It is also used in vocals and Cubans also sing with a lot of twang. It is a term that is used in music, in various aspects and I would translate it as the one who makes the strings vibrate.

It’s related to his game.

Of course, I learned everything, during all these years and, as I traveled a lot, I started with the Spanish guitar, then I took other paths, so all this mixture is present, but I never think about fashions.

A little Christmas tour in Spain then back to the United States.

Yes, but the truth is that we are still on tour. It coincided that I had to travel to Europe to make a record with another artist and I took advantage of a few dates in Spain then I went to the United States, Canada, India. But I’ve been on tour for 28 years, barring a pandemic, I haven’t stopped.

Isn’t the road so tiring?

I think at some point I’m going to have to relax, what happens is that you say it with liveliness, because when you’re at home, you want to go on tour again. I want to work again in the recording studio, another of my passions.

Another Grammy could come out of this very special album.

We are there, you never know. The Grammy thing is the recognition of the rest of the professionals, we hope that the colleagues recognize it. We will see.

Are there any plans for a new project?

At the moment I have just released a music book, a guitar book, which we produced in a bilingual edition, for Europe and the United States, because they asked me for a lot of scores and here is the edition. This is the new project that I want to present on tour in the spring. We will do this mainly in music schools and conservatories.

Could you also come to the People’s University?

Yes, I had thought of that. You could do a conference with a masterclass and then it gives you a concert in the same city, but more focused on creating a school. It’s a beautiful study, which sums up my way of seeing the guitar and I hope it will inspire the youngest.