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“Hello, I’m Alejandra de Luján and I’ve been crying since five o’clock because of the broadcast.” It is ten in the morning and in the Colon Theater WhatsApp audios sound that reach I dreamed that I was flyingMigue Granados’ program in Olga. The strangeness produced by the acoustics of the traditional Buenos Aires theater put at the service of the dynamics of a television channel streaming It disappears as soon as the musical numbers begin. With the delicacy that the event deserves, the string quartet composed of Matías Scheines, Matías Romero, Elizabeth Ridolfi and Paula Pomeraniec is responsible for starting what was called Spinetta Daya special edition of the program dedicated to honoring the life and work of Luis Alberto Spinettaled by Granados, Lucas Friedman and, on this occasion, Catarina Spinettadaughter of the musician.
Previously, the channel honored other national artists in similar initiatives. There was a Cerati Daywas A Round Day and today it was Skinny’s turn. The decision to hold this edition in the Colón was a novelty: when the date was announced, with a lineup eclectic, with free tickets (they were obtained by collaborating with the Sí Foundation with food) there were several blocks of lines to get them.
“Thank you all for coming and to God Alberto, for so much music he gave us,” he said. Nahuel Pennisi in the first number of the grid, before interpreting “Bleeding Peach.” He followed it Benjamin Amadeo with “All the leaves are from the wind” and Light Gaggi with “Fine linen”. All accompanied by Mono Fontana’s band: Guillermo Arrom (guitar), Baltasar Comotto (guitar), Javier Malosetti (bass) and Sergio Verdinelli on drums.
The format alternates between live songs and a review of Spinetta’s family anecdotes. “He was enlightened, he had an open channel. He knew that he was transmitting something that touched him, that it reached him,” Catarina defined about her father. “He had an intuition that he refined over time.” She then talked about what daily life was like in his house, in which Spinetta Sr. shared his new compositions. “There were almost always some of these monsters there,” Cata added in reference to Mono Fontana and the rest of the band.
Late in the morning, Sergio Marchi, journalist and biographer of the musician, joined Granados, Fridman and Spinetta at the table. During the talk, Catarina referred to the covers of some albums that LAS recorded. With a vinyl copy of Don Lucero (1989), she remembered that Flaco designed it pixel by pixel with a Commodore Amiga computer. Additionally, she talked about her father’s reading habits. “With mom they read philosophy, novels, they stayed up all night reading.”
“As I read philosophy, I saw you My poor angel” commented Marchi. According to Catarina, her father liked to say that if her next child was a boy, he would be called Kevin, like the protagonist of the film. “He had a great thing with humor that was very particular, he liked to push jokes to the limit,” she said. Along those lines, she remembered when her father was choosing her name for what ended up being one tomorrowwhom I wanted to name Mason’s cocoon.
The list of songs that the guests performed included material from all of Spinetta’s projects. Around 11 in the morning, Lisandro Aristimuño came out on stage at the Colón to perform “Maribel se dormió,” while the Vocat trio delivered “Don’t get so far from me.” At that time the broadcast had more than 100,000 people watching the event live. Then his own Granados stood up from the table, walked around the stage behind the screen that projected the streaming and performed “Camafeo.”
Later, Ca7riel greeted the Colón audience: it is the second time that the musician has set foot on that stage to honor a national rock icon: in November 2019, accompanied by Paco Amoroso, he surprised with a duet version of “Crimen”, by Gustavo Cerati, within the framework of the closing of the La Nación Cultura cycle.
