Shortly before the extraordinary trap boom that occurred during the pandemic, there was a rapper duo who revolutionized the local scene with its powerful mix of rap, trap and rock. they were Ca7riel and Paco Amoroso, which between 2018 and 2019 toured the country and abroad, up to decreeing a break after a legendary show in Obras.
This year, after promised solo forays from each other, as well as participation in other artists’ albums and shows, “Cato y Paco” (as their followers call them) have reunited again, released a few singles and announced a recital in Obras for Thursday 22 December.
And as if not a day had passed since the furor of 2019, tickets sold out in less than six hours and immediately posted a second date for Friday the 23rd, all as part of their aptly titled “Season II” tour.
“Our dream was to travel a lot”
Several weeks before starting the intense series of shows leading up to the two Obras this week, Ca7riel and Paco Amoroso reviewed the fury of their beginnings and talked about the current phase.
-“At the age of 18 -Paco remembers- we put together a rock group called Astor, but that was another era. Now the music is done differently. It’s more of producing and recording, with another immediacy and the need to do things faster.”
According to Ca7riel, “We would spend many hours in the rehearsal room, making eye contact with the four of us as we played. Now there is no need to look into each other’s eyes: One looks at the computer and the other looks at the microphone.
-Do you know each other as children, did you already dream of making records, traveling and going to play in a stadium?
paco: There was longing and a lot of crazy exhilaration for things happening for the first time. I remember what it was like to shoot the first video, where we drank and smoked drugs before shooting started. The first time you feel like a rockstar you have to try it a little! Today we have about 10-15 videos and this is something known, like a job. You go into more detail and that’s fine too.
Ca7riel: It all happened so fast that it’s like we made a list of dreams and fantasies that we never wrote down. Now everything is more common, even dating musicians we admired as children, because we are the same age.
Package: I think the biggest dream we had was to travel a lot, and when you do that with your group of friends it’s a psychedelic experience.
-What do you remember about the previous Obras, the one from 2019?
Package: It was pretty crazy. It was our last date in Buenos Aires and it’s been three years that seem like a lifetime. It was great.
Ca7riel: We were much more children. We were 25. Immediately after the pandemic we aged a lot and now we are 28, much heavier.
“Everything was natural and little discussed”
How did you break up and what was it like getting back together?
Package: Everything was very natural and little spoken. For us all that 2019 was a delirium and we were a little tired of playing. We were considering stopping in for a concert and getting a little comfortable, and the pandemic has just arrived. We needed to break away a bit and each made their own musical implosion. It was healthy. We made a record and what happened next was we got back together. It really came quite naturally.
Ca7riel: Now we wanted to travel the world, and when we joined forces, opportunities arose to do so. We were really excited to start a new band with friends, we went on tour and we didn’t stop.
Package: We’ve already done Mexico and Europe, but there are other places that are pending.
-Also, during this year, between tours, you released several singles, such as “En el after” and “Para afuera”.
Package: -Yes, to prove that we were alive.
-What is it that each sees special in the other’s solo album?
Ca7riel: El Paquito really wanted to sing songs. This is what is reflected, in addition to his personality, when he writes.
Package: Maybe together we create a musical style that only happens when we are together. And when we’re apart, there are things that don’t work for us, because there’s no other’s strength to push you. What is heard on the records is what each one wanted to do, and now we got together and started to find a common horizon.
Ca7riel: Releasing our records served to establish our personalities.
Package: Yes. This is the key to being able to make your own music.
What are the superpowers you see in others?
Ca7riel: Paquito is the great writer. Letters come out of one, he catches fire, just tapes it.
Package: Cato has the strength, euphoria and polenta you see live. He has the handle. Seeing him live lifts me up energetically.
“Our shows are like rock”
-In the local urban music scene, are you the closest to rock?
Package: Having played rock since childhood, with instruments, and having gone to recitals, our shows are more like a rock concert than an urban music show. We have a band and these elements circulate, for example the solos.
I feel a relationship to the bands we watched as kids, like babasonicos, who in some way sponsor us or give their support. A few months ago we went to play a festival in Paraguay and there was Bersuit and Catupecu Machu, which had a good vibe.
Ca7riel: That’s why for me it’s also that we are glued to the rock, for that guarantee. They talk about us and we listen to them.
-Three years ago did you imagine that the scene would grow so much, with sold-out shows in football stadiums and millions of listeners?
Ca7riel: Yup! Everything was already there.
Package: It was coming, yes. It also happened that, after the pandemic and a long time without performances, people came out wanting to see the recitals. There is a euphoria for the living.
Ca7riel: Even if people have no money, they make the effort to be able to go.
About Ca7riel and Paco
Catriel Guerreiro Fernandez Penalozaor simply Ca7riel, he has collaborated with famous artists such as Fito Páez, Juana Molina, Miranda!, Wos, Duki, Juan Ingaramo, Louta, Chita and Bizarrap, among many others.
At the age of 18 he had a band called Astor y Las Flores de Marte, playing rock, funk and reggae, touring the circuits of Buenos Aires and entering competitions such as Vamos las Bandas or Camino a Abbey Road. Then he formed a duo with the drummer, Ulises Guerreirowhose stage name is Paco Amoroso.
Together they released several singles and had a great response, for example by shooting a video for each song. McFly Y Coca Cola. They had a great season in 2019, with shows all over the country, then in Latin America and also in Europe, culminating in that stage in Obras.
Once they separated (or on hiatus), Ca7riel released her own album called the disc and Paco did the same with Arrowwhere Lara91k and Adrián Dargelos, lead singer of Babasónicos participated.
Now together again, they released singles this year God pays, later Y Outwards. The album will be released, according to what they say on their Instagram account, “anytime.”
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Source: Clarin
