Either the end of the world is approaching and everyone still wants to deliver a great performance quickly or a new creativity drug has been invented. How else can it be explained that the Pretty Things, the Zombies, Buddy Guy and now also ZZ-Top-Rauschebart present Billy Gibbon's albums, with which they outshine their respective works of the last 20 years?
![BILLY GIBBONS - Interview about the new album "Perfectamundo"](https://www.eclipsed.de/sites/default/files/styles/large/public/field/image/Billy_Gibbons_Photo_by_Gerardo_Ortiz_DSC_0735_color2%20web.jpg?itok=L1PLdzQ4 "BILLY GIBBONS - Interview about the new album "Perfectamundo"")
eclipsed: What is so special about "Perfectamundo" that you couldn't have done it with ZZ Top?
Billy Gibbons: Everything that ZZ Top have ever produced for me is blues rock, sometimes more modern, sometimes more traditional. "Perfectamundo," on the other hand, is broader. The new album is about percussions, percussions, percussions. That's what I couldn't have done with ZZ Top.
eclipsed: The percussions are already conspicuous, they dominate many a song.
Gibbons: That's absolutely right, because on the album I was only secondarily about the songs. It's a sound album. I wanted to sing some songs in Spanish and so I invited Cuban percussionists who were allowed to drum wildly. Singing songs in Spanish was an exciting experience: First, I don't know Spanish very well, and second, I listened to a lot of South American songs, and they tell stories rather than alternating verse and chorus ...
