Tireless musical and poetic powertwelve years after his death, Luis Alberto Spinetta continues to be an inevitable reference for local rock in particular and for Argentine music in general, and a standard-bearer of creative freedom without complacency.
Throughout his career, which took official form in 1967, when the foundations of what would become AlmendraSpinetta delved into an aesthetic universe whose boundaries he did not know.
Identified with that hybrid and mutant musical species called “Argentine rock”, the truth is that Luis Alberto he broadened his scope with elements of folklore, jazz and tango; Or perhaps it was precisely from those lands that his path headed towards the rock.
Almendra, Pescado Rabioso, Invisible, Los Socios del Desierto, twenty solo albums, a repertoire and an incorruptible attitude towards the idea of musical creation and life; two daughters and two sons, a unanimous opinion from friends and the artistic community summarize the period spent by Luis Alberto Spinetta on this planet, in which his presence is definitive.
Like few other artists, Spinetta combined artistic risk with popular recognition.Girl (Paper Eyes)
The famous cover of Almendra’s first album, where the hit “Muchacha (ojos de papel)” was foundHis greatest success, an overflow of tenderness that opens Almendra’s first album. Spinetta has denied the matter for years and he didn’t sing it much live, but he returned from time to time to please his fans.
A true classic of Argentine rock, and so important in his discography that it was the closing of the historical path that he retraced in the Vélez de Bandas Eternas, when shortly before his death he brought together all his groups in a single concert.
All leaves come from the wind
Included in Artaudit’s a great start to a monumental album released as Pescado Rabioso but of clear solo billingrecorded with a little help from friends, who participated in some songs.
The cover of Artaud, a creation by Juan Gatti, which frames one of Flaco’s masterpieces.A sensitive and essential song, with all the emotion of his voice and his guitar.
I pray for you
Luis Alberto Spinetta and Charly García, at the Bandas Eternas concert, in Vélez. Photo: Martin BonettoOne of the few fragments of the explosive meeting he tried to have with Charly García, which was not included in an album but was reflected in some songs like this.
As a special nod to break the rift that some fans created between them, they sang it at Charly’s Luna Park and a month later at Flaco’s Luna Park.
And it was, of course, at the Bandas Eternas show, in Vélez.
The books of good memory
Wine, spirits, sea and a perfect poetic example of the delicate tango air of the third album Invisiblewith the bandoneon of Juan José Mosalini and the guitar Tommy Gubitsch.
A topic for later had multiple versions of characters like Gustavo Cerati, Nahuel Pennisi, Pedro Aznar, Peteco Carabajal and even Los Pericos.
Song for the days of life
In the middle of the jazz-rock stage, a jewel has slipped in that seems to have been composed for the birth of his first son Dante, but which in reality belongs to Almendra’s unpublished work.
Luis Alberto Spinetta, a singer-songwriter who painted his country and became universal.Decades later, there was a beautiful version of Maria Gabriela Epumer.
mud perhaps
After Almendra’s meeting and the creation of Spinetta Jade, an acoustic and solo album appears in which Diego Rapoport’s piano is added to five songs.
Among them is this classic called home Zamba and which Mercedes Sosa herself recorded years later.
Maribel fell asleep
A composition with multiple interpretations, including the allusion to those who disappeared during the military dictatorship of 1976.
The kick-off was a song for his son who was very ill, but then he realized that it could refer to something more general, and it is no coincidence that the album on which it came out –Lower Belgrano– It was dedicated to the Mothers of Plaza de Mayo.
continue to live without your love
When Vera was born in 1991, she emerged on the album Milk Peluson a surprising pop and radio Spinetta, with all its lyrics intact and an unforgettable melody.
Don’t go so far from me
A true radio success, recorded in a moment of overflowing creativity, when almost simultaneously he released an acoustic album (Kamikaze), an electric one (The world of Chrome) and an album with Spinetta Jade (Lower Belgrano).
Cameo
A song well representative of the last era of his band Spinetta Jade, with electronic sounds and digital drums. It had an intense diffusion thanks to a version that Flaco recorded specifically for FM Rock & Pop, where he modified some verses to make it a jingle for the radio.
And of course there are many other Spinetta songs to discover. These are only ten, but every fan could make their own list.
Source: Clarin
