2023-11-10 23:43:47
Roger Waters.
Waters is, without a doubt, one of the greatest exponents in rock history. Living legend, “artivist” as someone defined him, that is, artist and activist returns to Montevideo, a city that declared him an Illustrious Visitor in his previous performance in 2018 when he gave a memorable concert on the same stage. Show that, together with the Rolling Stones show in February 2016, have become the biggest shows that have been put on the Uruguayan scene. If it’s just rock and roll, first the Stones; Yes, symphonic rock and conceptual proposal, Pink Floyd and Roger Waters.
Founder of Pink Floyd with Rick Wright, Nick Mason and Syd Barrett who would later be replaced by David Gilmour, Waters and the band generated a formidable musical work with fermented compositions of psychedelia and progressive rock uniting fusions of jazz, blues and the so-called art rock, like Ummagumma, Atom heart mother, Animals, The dark side of the moon, Wish you were here, The final cut and Animals, just to name a few.
After the group split, Waters, the brain of the band, further deepened his vision of the world around him, generating a style in which rebellion, denunciation, protest and proposal is the central axis of his life and the foundation Of his work. Theirs is to awaken consciences numbed by the consumer society, by simple entertainment that brutalizes human beings, in short, by those who hold power.
Human society clearly exposed in the work “Animals” where in a metaphorical plan the pigs represent the owners of power, the dogs the guardians of the established order and the sheep the human mass that, stunned by advertising and unbridled consumption, He lets pigs and dogs drive without rebelling.
This conceptual art acquires a superlative dimension in the rock opera The Wall composed almost entirely by Waters, where the metaphor of a wall enhances the perception of the alienation of the mass media, of its loneliness even in the midst of hyper communication, of the human condition paradoxically stripped of its humanity by industrialization, technology, commercialization, profit. All this while originally and from another point of view, the wall refers to a fence that the character called Pink has created for his protection and that has been formed with bricks made up of painful experiences. Thus, “Another brick in the wall” is also the death of Pink’s father as well as the addition to the wall that constitutes the wall of a new alienated, empty being, without rebellion, we would say without soul, added to that wall, made up of that human mass stripped of its consciousness.
The singer who does not shut up
For the above reasons and much more, the concert that this giant of universal music will present at the Centenario Stadium in Montevideo will be a party for the senses and a unique opportunity for attendees, after being part of this show, perceive that they have grown both in thickness and in human depth. George Roger Waters, at 80 years old a couple of months ago, is one of those essential beings, a human being touched by magic who, through his unquestionable art, clearly points out his enemies in songs like Pigs, Money and many others, making that song his own. phrase by the Cuban Pablo Milanés “poor of the singer of our days who does not risk his strings so as not to risk his life.” Waters is the singer who does not remain silent, also aware of his place in the world, of his registration in history by giving a defined meaning to his own existence.
Let us remember that on his previous visit in which he was declared an Illustrious Visitor by the Municipality of Montevideo, he then offered a press conference at the Pit-Cnt headquarters, where he explained, argued and defended his position and social and political militancy, defining himself as man of the left and great admirer of Pepe Mujica, explaining that “the path that Mujica has imagined is that of the community to prevent the pigs with their neoliberal economies from being the ones to keep all the wealth and finally destroy this small planet.”
Also noted for his active militancy in defense of the Palestinian people, he said on that occasion: “The Palestinians were forcibly expelled from their homes, which were also demolished on a regular basis. In Gaza they don’t even bother to enter with demolition machines, they do it with bombs, they do it regularly and they call that mowing the grass. He also pointed out that “anti-Semitism, Israel’s treatment of the Palestinians and the foreign policy of the United States” must be urgently rejected, inviting all artists from the rest of the world to “not link or associate with any Israeli organization.” . Every time he is asked, he clarifies that he is not anti-Semitic: “the Palestinians are also a Semitic people, the Palestinians are Semites,” he reiterates, clarifying that his fight is against the Zionism that governs Israel and its policy of colonization and extermination of the Palestinians. .
Unfortunately, in our country some voices of mediocre resentful dwarfs have resurfaced who, disgusted by their presence, have tried by all means to block the publicity of the event and deny the cultural interest that it undoubtedly possesses. Poor and mean modern Torquemadas that will be forgotten while the greatest art of Roger Waters already belongs to humanity and eternal time.
In the unmissable show he will give at the Montevideo Football Monument Waters will be supported by a staff of high-end musicians, none other than Jonathan Wilson on guitars and synthesizer, Joaey Waronker on drums and percussion, Johnny Shepherd on piano and organ, Robert Walter on piano, Via Mardot on theremin (etherophone), Gabe Noel on sarangi, Jon Carin on lap steel (Hawaiian guitar) and synthesizers with Azniv Korkejian on backing vocals. “This is not a drill” is produced by Waters himself along with Gus Seyffert and the local production is by Atin Producciones. Given the above, a unique and inimitable show where music, texts and staging create an extraordinary climate of superlative excellence that activates all the senses. It is not a copy, it is the original. And this, dear readers, is not a simulation, it is reality. You will have to be there.
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