Sunday, 24 January 2016

Luis Alberto Spinetta

Luis Alberto Spinetta was born on January 23, 1950 in Buenos Aires. His father was an amateur singer of tangos , Luis Alberto embraced her passion since childhood. At age 12 , he participated in a national singing competition and was selected for a tour but withdrew . At that time , he began taking his first and only guitar lessons , and soon it became a self-taught musician. He began playing in bands with schoolmates , as Almond, formed in 1967 , with Emilio del Guercio , Edelmiro Molinari and Rodolfo Garcia with whom he recorded two albums to separate in 1970 , without first stop editing a double album contains songs well known as " Argentine routes" and "Elephants " .

The solo debut of " Flaco" had in 1971 , after the dissolution of Almond, entitled " Star Search " as the RCA company did not respect the original title " " Spinettalandia and his friends. " " Girl paper eyes " Almond was a hit 70's and after a stay in Europe, Luis Alberto formed a momentous band popular music Argentina , Rabid Fish , with Osvaldo " Bocón " Frascino on bass ( later replaced by David Lebon ) , Black Amaya on drums and Carlos Cutaia on keyboards . It lasted only two years and released two considerably different albums : " Desatormentándonos " (1972 ) and Fish 2 (1973 ) , a double album because " Artaud " (1973 ) actually corresponded to the race Spinetta solo again .

The name of the group , imagined by Spinetta before returning to the country , stated that "moment punk" characterized by anger , but also conveyed the paradoxical situation of a fish with water phobia . The " Skinny " considered that the topic that best represented the time punk was that it was " The gardener ( early dawned ) " . Moreover, this historical moment coincides in turn with a turning point in the personal life of the Spinetta , where he met Patricia Salazar, with whom he formed a stable partner for nearly 25 years and with whom he formed a family with four children common (one of them is Dante Illy Kuryaki ) .

In a pre- dictatorship of the 76 ' and historical and cultural crossroads staff appeared " Artaud " (1973 ), inspired precisely in the suffering and rejection emotions that poetry of the French writer Antonin Artaud produced in Spinetta . The musician then the country associated with suicidal madness of poetry of Artaud and nihilism expressed rocker drugs and " wanton promiscuity But the career of " Flaco" is never stopped mid-1973 and founded Invisible , accompanied by Hector " Pomo " Lorenzo and Carlos " Machi" Ruffino . This group ventured into jazz -rock fusion and even were the forerunners of tango -rock, a genre that took boom a few years later .

The group was fired in December 1976 with two concerts to full room in the Luna Park stadium and with Thomas on guitar Gubitsch as the fourth member of the group . Earlier, his partner Patricia was pregnant , so the couple decided to marry on September 16 , while the December 9 was born his first son, Dante ( Vocalist of Illy Kuryaki ) . Mark L. A. continued its course. In 1977 he released an album with several musicians gathered under the name Band Spinetta . " A 18 " sun " , reincursionando in jazz - fusion.

With the support of the tennis player Guillermo Vilas, by 1979, he recorded in the US, with composers such as Gino Vannelli and American musicians, their only English album "Only Love Can Sustain" ("Only love can hold). It included songs by other authors and more commercial than disks predecessors character, this album did not reflect the true style of Spinetta, in his own words. In 1980, in parallel to the meeting of Almendra, Spinetta Jade was formed with Diego Rapoport on keyboards (deceased in 2011), "Beto" Satragni on bass, Juan del Barrio on keyboards and Hector "Pomo" Lorenzo on drums. The group released four albums in total, with several changes in the formation and style, which was from a purely "jazzy" sound to a more pop and (in his latest work) quasi-galactic, alternating with the publication of two solo albums "Kamikaze" in 1982 (collection of unreleased tracks and one of his favorite works by his fans) and "Mondo di chrome" in 1983.By 1985 he was provided a duo album with Charly Garcia, but only came to record "I pray for you," included in " Privé " the next album of Luis Alberto , which also includes "Do not be fanatical ." The project itself took shape was " La la la " (1986 ), a plate with Fito Paez edited aroused great expectations but ended up convincing . After two years of silence, Spinetta returned to the ring with "Tester of violence " (1988 ) , then released " Don Lucero " (1989 ), also selected as " Best Album " by the newspaper Clarin , like the song " Fina clothing white " , selected as best song.

In 1990 came the first live album of Spinetta soloist : " Exact " , recorded in the Faculty of Exact Sciences of the University of Buenos Aires , but after a period of a few presentations, the " Flaco" turned on " Mi Buenos Aires Rock " festival organized by the Municipality which attracted 150,000 people on July 9 , in December 1990 , and presented some issues " leather skin "(1990 ) . For the third time in four years, Spinetta composed the " Best Album " of the year. It was " Pelusón of milk" (1991 ) which also contained the "Best Song ": " To continue living without your love " . In 1994 he composed the soundtrack of the film "Fire Gray ," directed by Pablo Caesar , then engage partners desert, a well integrated by Daniel " Tuerto " Wirzt trio (drums , died in 2008) and Marcelo Torres ( low). Leading this group conducted a national mini-tour and performed shows at the Opera theater.

In March 1996 he ended what he called " an old debt with the public" free and outdoor play , in the forests of Palermo and after several years and fights with record companies , Spinetta published a double album, simply entitled " Spinetta and the Partners of the Desert" , with topics that had already performed live . San Cristoforo also published in 1998 (live ) and "Eyes " in 1999. With these musicians , and other guests also recorded the album " Estrelicia " ( an acoustic on MTV ) in 1997 reviewing issues throughout his career.

Luis Alberto return to the studies was to "Silver Sorghum" (2001) after years of silence and several compilations. This material was presented live at the end of the year, and recorded live for the album "Argentina Sorghum Films Presents: Spinetta Works" (2002). With "For trees" (2003), Spinetta returned to the keyboards, the instrumental passages and flirt with electronica, to pay homage to the beauty of nature beyond the human eye. He also edited "Camalotus" (2004), an EP of four songs which was introduced in the FM minirecital "Rock and Pop". It consisted of three new creations: "Cristantelmo" (from the movie "September Flowers"), "Buenos Aires soul stone" and "Nelly, do not lie to me." It also contained a remix of "water poverty" (first single from the album 2002 "For trees"), by Rafael Aracaute. The work was accompanied by a DVD with video clips "Running in front of you", "The Enemy" and "Silly light", directed by Eduardo Martí.

In 2006 , "Pan" , an album in which stressed especially keyboards, performed by Claudio Cardone opened . The band was completed by Nerina Nicotra and Sergio Verdinelli , and after two years without premieres " Tomorrow " was presented in mid-2008 with cover art out of the ordinary : a parallelogram that recalled the historic " Artaud " 73 ' . The album was recorded in the studio " The wild goddess " on an analog tape with the band playing live , and artistic production was Louis himself . On December 4, 2009 , Spinetta led a historic show at the stadium of Velez Sarsfield , I bautilizado as " Spinetta and the Eternal Bands " . A recital five hours by guest musicians paraded 31 ( Fito Paez, Charly Garcia, Ricardo Mollo , Juanse and Gustavo Cerati ) for the 50 songs from his repertoire . In late 2010 , the material was edited on a DVD box set three three CDs and two books.

The last representative Dates Luis Alberto Spinetta, while led a tough fight against cancer, they were in Chile in December 2010 and in the " Cosquín Rock 2011" festival. The " Skinny " made public his illness in December 2011 through a letter. In a few lines , he said he was taking care of her " loving family, by friends of the soul, and we have the best doctors in the country." Died on February 8, 2012 because of a lung cancer diagnosed in July 2011. According to sources of the inner circle of the family, Spinetta died at home , surrounded by his four children, who days later,


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