Fito Páez announced that he will be re-recording Love After Love

Musician and composer Fito Páez announced that in August he will be recording new versions of the songs that have been part of Love after Love, his most successful album which will be 30 years old of its launch on June 1.

“The idea is to change it, visit it again and do new things,” Páez said in an interview with Julio Leiva for the YouTube channel black box recorded in public last Tuesday at the Usina del Arte.

Includes the repertoire of that emblematic and successful album with 14 songs Two days in a lifetime, Petal of salt, A dress and love, Tomb of Glory, The magical wheel, Behind the weeping wall, Bright into the microphone Y to roll my life.

ambitious project

During the conversation, the artist from Rosario revealed that the idea of ​​undertaking this project came from a meeting with businessman Daniel Grinbank and among the names he wanted to include in versions of those classics were references from the current city scene such as Bizarrap, Dillom, Nathy Peluso and Ca7riel.

“I want to call David Byrne, Elvis Costello, or Caetano Veloso or Chico Buarque, Rubén Rada,” he also listed, adding international figures to the ongoing project.

The musician, who will celebrate his 60th birthday next year, edited Love after Love in 1992, with Luis Alberto Spinetta, Charly García, Mercedes Sosa, Gustavo Cerati, Fabiana Cantilo, Celeste Carballo and Andrés Calamaro, among many others. Of the fourteen tracks on the album, ten were also released as singles.

Consecutive blows

Many of those songs became hit likes Love after love, to roll my life either A dress and a loveto which others such as Traffic Through Kathmandu, Sasha, Sissi and Baba’s Circle, La Veronica, Creo, The Ballad of Donna Helena Y two days in life.

Since its release, the album has become the best -selling album in the history of Argentine popular music, including over one million one hundred copies were sold until 2012. Since then, it has been ranked number 13 on the list of 100 best Argentine rock albums according to the magazine. rolling stone.

Páez, who recently could not take part in the Quilmes Rock festival due to covid infection, and for the same reason will have to reschedule his shows in Madrid and Barcelona, ​​for later, is preparing one of his most personal and ambitious. projects.

On the other hand, last March, the musician released a new album, Futurology Arltthe second of three albums he announced in conjunction with the release of the wild yearsin 2021. Futurology Arlt It is an almost entirely instrumental work, with an ambitious orchestra and wonderful epic passages, as well as dark and intimate atmosphere.

The inspiration for his latest production is the novel the crazy seven by Roberto Arlt, chosen by Fito as the starting point to create this instrumental work showcasing a wide range of musical styles, from the most impressive classical music to the sound of tango orchestras and a reference to Astor Piazzolla.

Meanwhile, the third part of this trilogy is The Golden Light, an album of unreleased songs, played and sung on the piano. In addition, this month Fito launched the theme Babelcomposed with Colombian singer-songwriter Carlos Vives, a song that pays homage to Argentine rock.

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