CÓRDOBA, June 12. (EUROPA PRESS) –
The Argentine poet and singer Andrés Calamaro arrives on Sunday at the Teatro de la Axerquía in Córdoba with his ‘Agenda 1999’ tour, marking a quarter of a century since the publication of ‘Honestidad brutal’, the album unanimously considered the masterpiece of the artist.
According to his promoter, the poet has the good habit of modifying the live repertoire every season or two, something original for a bullfighting fan that also encompasses the concept of improvisation and delivery of “the most cultured festival.”
An admirer of singers and bullfighters, American filmmakers and French novelists, Calamaro performs on stage without tricks or digital aids and, together with his band of exquisite musicians, offer each night a different show in risky and irregular art, “just as we learn it in the arenas, alberos and tendidos”, and ‘jazz’.
Last year, touring under the label ‘Agenda 2023’, he offered a repertoire that mutated until concluding in a series of rock “hymns” and awakening expanded feelings in the audiences. The public accompanied as in a “Carioca carnival, the day of the Mexican dead”, like “an intellectual and sensitive soccer fan.”
There were more than 40 concerts in as many cities in Spain, Colombia, Ecuador, Panama, Costa Rica, Mexico, the United States, Puerto Rico and Argentina; thus making up two years – almost one hundred presentations – of intercontinental tours that covered Spain and the Americas in 2022 and 2023.
Perhaps the fervor of the supporters who best know the singer’s extensive official and unpublished work motivates the musician to resurrect songs from other less popular albums than those that graced the ‘Agenda 2023’. Calamaro is probably “the greatest unknown musical artist in this language.”
Mostly young audiences celebrate established songs like ‘Flaca’, ‘Mil Horas’, ‘Sin Documentos’, ‘Para No Olvidar’, ‘Estadio Azteca’, ‘La Parte de Adelante’, ‘Los Chicos’ or ‘Media Verónica’, but The bohemian concept and non-conformity live in the spirit of artists like Andrés: “we are talking about a musician who tries to please and offend like a tenth commandment.” “Liking is more bearable and offending means being faithful to his origins in ‘rock n roll’, anarchy and contemporary art,” the promoter points out.
“Rumors allow us to assume that the ‘Agenda 1999’ tour, as presented this year, could center around the songs on the ‘Honestidad Brutal’ album, but Andrés Calamaro is known as a public enemy of nostalgia and for his attachment to less celebrated albums like ‘Volumen Once’ and musical nooks that are less popular or celebrated by critics,” they emphasize.
In this case, he will be supported by his usual colleagues: German Wiedemer, Julian Kanevsky, Mariano Dominguez, Martín Bruhn, Brian Figueroa and a select team of professionals.
