Eleven years after his death, Louis Alberto Spinetta continues to be an essential reference for local rock in particular and Argentine music in general, a standard bearer of creative freedom and without satisfaction.
Throughout his career, which it took official form in 1967, the year in which the foundations of what it would be were laid AlmondSpinetta plunged into an aesthetic universe whose boundaries were unknown.
Identified with the world of so-called “Argentine rock”, the truth is that Luis Alberto has expanded its field of action to folklore, jazz and tango; Or maybe it’s from those lands that his path made its way towards rock. It matters little, in the light of a job in which labels tend to leak.
Almendra, Pescado Rabioso, Invisible, Spinetta Jade, Los Socios del Desierto, around twenty solo albums, a repertoire and an incorruptible attitude towards the idea of \u200b\u200bmusical creation and life; two daughters and two sons, the unanimous judgment of friends and the artistic community, summarize the passage of Luis Alberto Spinetta on this planet, in which its presence is definitive.
11 essential songs
Girl (paper eyes): his greatest success, an overflow of tenderness that opens the first album of Almendra. For years he denied the subject and seldom sang it live, but from time to time he came back to give us the pleasure, it was the closure of the historic journey he retraced in the Vélez de Bandas Eternas.
Go: a jewel from Almendra’s double album, released in , which closes disc 1 with a dream time and the magic of asking to “take off your shoes in the air to go”.
Post-crucifixion: a single by Pescado Rabioso from 1973 (with wake up baby) which became a classic of his rockier sound. There are covers of Los 7 Delfines, Claudia Puyó, Atlanticus, Javier Calamaro and La Mississippi, among others.
All the leaves are from the wind: included in Artaudis a great start to a monumental album released as Pescado Rabioso but with a clear solo bill, recorded with a little help from friends, who chimed in on some songs.
Cantata of the yellow bridges: a complex acoustic suite that condenses from Van Gogh’s letters to heliogabalus from Artaud, passing through surrealist poetry, the references to the raft and violence in the country in the early 1970s.
good memory books: wine, liqueur, sea and a perfect poetic example of the delicate tango aria of Invisible’s third album, with Juan José Mosalini on bandoneon and Tommy Gubitsch on guitar.
Song for the days of life: in the middle of the jazz-rock stage, a gem creeps in which seems to have been composed for the birth of the firstborn Dante, but which in reality belongs to the unpublished work of Almendra.
stay or leave: after the meeting of Almendra and the creation of Spinetta Jade, an acoustic and solo album appears in which Diego Rapoport’s piano is added in five songs. Among them is this classic.
All these years of people: descriptive and captivating, the theme is an exponent of the high peaks of la la lathe double LP recorded with Fito Páez in 1986.
continue to live without your Love: when Vera was born, in 1991, appeared in the album milk foam a surprising pop and radio Spinetta, with all its lyrics intact and an unforgettable melody.
tied to your border: a pearl of Breada record full of beauty released by Spinetta in 2005, in which its simplicity is combined with an aria, from its instrumentation, of the Spinetta era Jade.
Source: Clarin
