Duchovny, on his jump to music: I'm not good guitarist and never will be

Only 6 years ago David Duchovny did not know how to play the guitar, which has not prevented this actor known for his starring roles as agent Fox Mulder on "X-Files" or as sex addict in " Californication, "has decided to jump to the music with a first album to be presented in May in Spain.

"I myself was surprised at this turn. As an actor, long escapes into the expectations of the movie sets, so I learned to play the guitar. But I know I'm not a good guitar player and never will be," He acknowledged in a telephone interview with Efe, the American interpreter, who at 55 considers that "success in this case meant to make own songs and they may like to other people."

Surrounded by a band "of very talented people," Duchovny (New York, 1955) will perform on May 14 at the Barts room Barcelona and a day later in Madrid Joy Eslava to present "Hell or highwater" (Think Say Records ), their debut album, whose title besides the name of one of the-single-would mean in Spanish something like "Against all odds".

"Many of the songs refer to cope with difficulties and have to do with perseverance," says the actor, a graduate of Princeton University and graduate in a Masters of English Literature at Yale University, who left the Ph.D. to pursue acting.

In his career, he has already faced some of those adversities. In the 90s, for example, the television series were not the prestigious format that is today and he helped build these bases thanks to his work on "X-Files", regardless of being labeled as an actor on the small screen.

"People tend to label things and lock people into watertight compartments," he said when asked about the likely cynicism from which many now see this jump to music.

It does not give more importance to the issue and assumes the situation in a pragmatic manner. "My music is an expression of myself. I do not care how it is received or if it comes into lists. I'm sure a lot of people who come to one of my concerts it does to see the actor playing (it is the nature of this business) but maybe next time do it for the music, "he says.

Follower of REM and Wilco, notes that while music and interpretation seem "different experiences", "both deal with the emotion" and that's what attracts you to each project, be it a song, a movie or series.

Very recently, in fact, he returned to get under the skin of dedicated FBI agent Fox Mulder paranormal cases, ten years after the premiere of the last film of the saga.


"It was a very interesting experience back to paper after so many years and try to meet again within it," he says about his involvement in the recently issued tenth season of the series.

Duchovny does not rule out the possibility of participating in a plausible eleventh season. "I do not know, we'll see, you have to put together agendas" merely states, waiting for her partner, actress Gillian Anderson (Agent Scully).

At its closest horizon their upcoming concert, which will perform with his band and in which, in addition to some versions and songs from their first album cuts that will anticipate and his second album, recorded this summer are located.