This Saturday they disembark at the ND les Raviolis Theaterthe rock band formed by mothers and fathers of one public school who sing to other fathers, mothers and children about the vicissitudes of the youth consumerismabout sexual diversity in childhood and with heartfelt tributes to the grandmothers that they don’t set rules, among many other topics full of irony and humor.
Born in 2012 from state school “Margarita Ravioli”, when they were specially armed to play some songs in tribute to the teacher gardeners of the institution in its day, met again in 2014 to put all the chips into the project, which after 10 years, today celebrates its birthday with laughter and a lot of music while awaiting the results of the Gardel Award nomination for his latest album “Bad business” in the category “Best Children’s Album”.
Composed of Valeria Donati, Gabriel Wisznia, Esteban Ruiz Barrea, Bruno Delucchi, Juan Pablo Esmok Lew, Brian Ayliffe and Fernando Bucci, after national and international tours that hit the charts at festivals and spaces such as the Lollapalooza, Konex, La Trastienda or TecnóppolisRaviolis returns to the Buenos Aires stages to perform collective catharsis with children and adults and sing to the wonders and miseries of parenting, family, society and politicsalways with humor, strength, rock attitude and, above all, high musical quality in composition and execution.
In this celebration this weekend the band promises more rock and bard than ever, playing the great songs that run through his discography in a climate full of surprises, guests and tons of adrenaline, going from the debut of “Por qué no te mande al Shifto Tarde?” until his last album, which Gardel hopes to earn his due. In dialogue with SOY, Fernando Bucci, sound technician, social media manager and spokesperson for the band, reveals secrets of what is to come and delves into the thousand ways of being and being in the world that the group proposes for its most listeners. young (and not so young), in what promises to be (and will be) an unforgettable celebration.
What relevance does sexual, gender or any other dissidence have when creating raviola songs for childhood and adolescence?
Fernando Bucci: I think it’s very important. We know that our audience is diverse, that we enter all types of homes and that we have the responsibility of not reproducing or legitimizing hegemonic family, gender or class models. We also know that we are not very authorized, because we all enjoy many privileges. What we try to do is not naturalize them and laugh at ourselves, like in the song of the macho provider, where a father trying to fix his house ends up destroying it, or the one about the tender, where a very conventional couple makes a fool of themselves. overwhelmed with a domestic life that crushes her to the rhythm of a Jamiroquai that sounds like an asshole, and she ends up regretting not having the sexual-affective life that the new generations allow themselves.
The song “Valentín” does allow it, with lyrics and a story that goes that way.
-A friend pointed out to us that the love song between children that our first album has is a very beautiful love story, but too heterosexual, and that Raviolis couldn’t miss it a love song between two children of the same gender. We thought a lot about how to do it not from a place of showing or pointing out sexuality but rather from the right of children to live in freedom. That the right was so clear and so acquired that it did not have to be mentioned. It was a very moving song, because it speaks from the perspective of adults who worry that their child does not suffer. And all of us who have children are concerned that they do not suffer, neither because they are sick, nor because of what happens at school, nor because of a disappointment in love. The song only asks “What’s wrong with Valentine?”, which is ultimately what worries us all when we see our sad children, right?
The wild side of parenting
Raviolis presents itself as a band of “music and catharsis about the B side of upbringing”, and that nickname comes to confess that none of its members formed a band. Ingalls family: in the daily whirlwind of this accelerated society, the bombardment of television, social networks and the productivist madness of capitalism, there is a demand to satisfy an impossible and absurd reality, which seeks to show hegemonic families with an impeccable domestic life, flooded with advertising love and plenitude in selfie mode, while Real conflicts, lack of money, debts or the best possible upbringing for children become an exhausting task. Faced with this cotillion idyll, the school door, in the group’s own words, becomes “more than an Instagram photo, a zombie convention.” That’s when Raviolis takes up his instruments, raises the amplifiers, prepares his voice and the magic begins.
How are music and catharsis intertwined to propose in raviole compositions?
-What we try to do with the songs is show that fatigue, those limitations, that come from the tension between the demand for perfection (even from ourselves) and the lack of economic, emotional, etc. resources. The way that seems most cool to us is to laugh at ourselves, through ridicule and irony.
For example?
-With the late shift song, we put ourselves in the role of the immature father who protests his own decisions, or in the grandmothers’ song we recognize that we would love to have everything allowed again, that we would love to stop being responsible adults to return. to be us spoiled grandchildren for a while. We also love play with musical genresuse those genres that are exiled from children’s records (or that if they appear, they appear sweetened, childish), such as hard-rock, punk, heavy metal, reggaeton, bolero or flamenco.
And how do families react to your shows?
-The general reaction is that we are all very happy, enjoying rocking again and rocking with your children. Priceless. It’s a bit like going back to childhood, playing and jumping, another bit going back to adolescence, in that discovery. the world of recitals when you learned the most endearing songs of your life, when you became a fan of a band, and another bit of youth, when “we broke the night” in the clubs we used to go to. The kids have a great time but the adults have more fun and that’s great. It’s beautiful to see them get out of control as a family! What surprises us the most is when couples come without children. Once, after a show, a couple confessed to us that they had gotten a niece so they could come to the show, and we also had a couple of grandparent fans who came alone.
10 years of Ravioli: Saturday, May 18 at 3 and 6 p.m. at the ND Theater, Paraguay 918.
