2024-08-16 03:01:00
“Now that Post punk is back in fashion, I would tell the kids: ‘If you like Buenos Vampiros, listen to this album. Post punk from Greater Buenos Aires” skewer Adrián Paoletti. Before establishing himself as one of the most visual, exciting and dark minstrels of Argentine indie (qualities that dazzled Gustavo Cerati, to the point that he called him to put his compositional talent at the service of his album Natural force), The artist integrated Co-pilot Pilate. It was one of the most unclassifiable bands that left the New Argentine Rock, scene that in the 90s sheltered other group projects from the southern area of Greater Buenos Aires. Without intending to, and without being hyperbolic, that piece of land was the local equivalent of Manchester English.
Almost simultaneously with the recording debut of Los Brujos, Babasónicos, Juana La Loca, El Otro Yo and Peligrosos Gorriones, Copiloto Pilato published their only album in 1992: The same land. “I was 23 years old. We were all young kids,” recalls the former leader of the quartet. “It’s a good album. It stood the test of time. It was forgotten there, and now it has resurfaced.” After being released again in March on digital music platforms, a limited edition of that production appeared on vinyl at the beginning of this month, which will be presented This Friday, August 16th at Strummer Bar (Godoy Cruz 1631), at 7pm. Although its members will be part of the group, it has been dissolved. That is why soloists and bands such as Ok Pirámides, Santi Rial, Migue Castro, Gori and Melba with Fabio Rey will recreate these songs.
“At the time, The same land received very good reviews from the press. And colleagues also spoke very highly of that material,” recalls the singer, composer and musician about a repertoire that It bordered on the aesthetic and poetic intention of Los Pillos and Don Cornelio y la Zona. “The album was released through a small label. The partners had a fight and it came to nothing. Later, we recorded a demo of what would become the second album. We called it the Democratic Party. We recorded it on a tube recorder, and, as it was a national holiday, the national anthem was played at 12 o’clock. That was recorded along with the 4 or 5 songs we made. However, The idea to release this came from a Swiss label (Zorn Records also reissued Las Violetas, Aguirre, Virus and Ok Pirámides) which was brought by a kid from Banfield.”
Initially, they contacted Diego “Tornillo” Fernández, bassist of Copiloto Pilato, and made the proposal (as a precedent to this rescue, the documentary was released in 2015 Water in my pockets, Made by Claudio Agosto and (available on YouTube). “That came up in November of last year. Although I still don’t have the vinyl, they showed it to me. The edition is a luxury, carefully crafted, double,” describes the musician, who, from this, resumed contact with his former companions. “Apart from Tornillo, I spoke the other day with the drummer (Fernando Ordóñez) for about two hours. “We will all see each other on Friday.” Although the reissue was a cause for joy, the Montegrandense emphasizes that the band is still part of his past. “After Copiloto, I recorded seven albums more. That’s what I’m currently doing,” he says.
While enjoying the vindication of The same land, Since last June Paoletti began sharing the songs that will make up his next solo album, Philosophy of television series. “The albums make sense to me when they have a title and a logic. “I give them an order and a concept,” reveals the 56-year-old singer-songwriter. “In fact, the song that gives the title to this work has many aspects of television series, as well as the logic of the chapters. It was the first of the three singles that I released. The remaining seven songs will appear on the first Friday of September. Although seven years have passed since my last album, what differentiates this one from the others is that I started making it in pandemicBut in general, the process is always the same: in an artisanal way, at home and with my friends.”
Although things have changed, the artist doesn’t miss the old days. He doesn’t see much of a distinction either. “Before, I would have the CD made, go to the printing shop to get the covers, take the copies to the record stores, and distribute the copy and the press release myself in the newspapers,” recalls the person who will come out to defend Philosophy of television seriesalong with his band The Odd Ones, Tuesday September 10 at the Rojas Cultural Center (Av. Corrientes 2038), at 9pm. “At that time I had two jobs. I had published On the tree route (1998), and I watched the movie it was about a double album in the style of Pink Floyd. When I finished, I went to Gonzalo Córdoba’s house (the former Suárez is still his consistent guitarist), and a couple more friends joined me. Today is no different. There are six of us, and “At every rehearsal we have a blast and we laugh our heads off.”
In addition to the single that gave name to this seventh album, recorded in four different studios, you can already listen to “Barba de pasto” and “Corderoy”: fabulous a cross between baroque folk and ghostly psychedelia, In the lyrics, Paoletti once again shows off his compositional talent, appealing to the dialectic between nature and movement, present throughout his work. “It is an autumn favourite,” he says. “At home I have a green background, something similar to immensity. You can hear the crickets and squirrels. I am in a neighbourhood of very quiet little houses. I live in a very wooded city. Maybe all of that was what inspired ‘Corderoy’ (the cover of the three promotional cuts was made by his 22-year-old son). I was born in Monte Grande, I work in Monte Grande and I am still in Monte Grande. “I am comfortable.”
At this point in his career, the goal of this leader of song, self-management and indie aesthetics is simple: have a good time. “It’s something I talk about with the guys in the band,” he says. “I’m a part-time musician, which makes everything slower. I started at 12 with a criolla guitar, and then I had bands. I studied social communication, but I graduated as a lawyer. If something goes more or less well for me, it’s make songs. The rest I did for minimal comfort. There is a book of Fernando Savater What is called The garden of doubts. It is an epistolary novel that says that The problem with artists is that they want to make money from their craft. It’s good to make money doing something else, to make art. With something, you can more or less get by. But now the aspiration is to live in a country house and have a Hilux. It’s the dream of the Argentine middle class.”