2024-05-24 03:52:40
Fernando Cabrera (67) and Hugo Fattoruso (80) They belong to totally different generations, however each are indisputably two influential figures of Uruguayan well-liked music. They’re as a result of they’ve made an authentic and constant contribution to the music of their nation and since over time they’ve maintained a piece ethic that served as inspiration for brand spanking new generations of artists. Though on “some fleeting event” they’d crossed paths on the stage of a competition and a few years in the past they’d met in a recording studio, They’d by no means shared a live performance in duo format. Till now. Cabrera and Fattoruso will carry out collectively on stage for the primary time and the debut will probably be this Thursday in Argentina, within the Lavardén Room in Rosario. Whereas, On Friday at 8:30 p.m. they’ll carry out at La Trastienda (Balcarce 460) and on Saturday they’ll do the identical in Studio Theater of Córdoba. In Uruguay they’ll solely play in September.
The assembly arose from a proposal made to them by Argentine producer Javier Celoria, with whom Fattoruso has been working for twenty years. “Javier, who loves music and Hugo, got here up with the concept of getting us collectively and when he proposed it to me I instantly stated sure, very grateful. Fortunately Hugo additionally felt prefer it,” Cabrera confesses. “We began getting collectively to arrange this live performance and all of the preparations for the event. It’s a nice honor to play with Hugo and it’s a very particular factor that future offers me this,” highlights the singer-songwriter. And he remembers a shared historical past: “Greater than thirty years in the past I invited him to play one or two songs on one among my albums. It was music I made for a film. I labored extra with Osvaldo, together with his brother, who was a drummer. Osvaldo participated in three of my albums and even did slightly manufacturing for me. However in a conclusive approach it’s the first time that I play with Hugo.”
“The very first thing I believed was: ‘And what do I play?’ As a result of Cabrera with the guitar covers every part, nothing enters. However he’s very beneficiant and lets me play with him,” jokes Fattoruso, a famend pianist, composer and arranger who collectively together with his brother Osvaldo and Ringo Thielmann fused jazz and candombe in Opa. The live performance repertoire will probably be constructed with songs by each. Within the case of Fattoruso, who was or is a member of numerous tasks – reminiscent of Rey Tambor, Ha Dúo (with Albana Barrocas) or Dos Orientales (with the Japanese percussionist Yahiro Tomohiro) -, the choice revolved round songs with lyrics. There won’t be any instrumental items.
Within the case of Cabrera, the singer, composer and guitarist from Montevideo has a fortnight of albums with personal songs to select from. “Hugo despatched me an extended record of his songs and we selected the 2. One additionally places pleasure in that: the place he feels most comfy, the place he enjoys essentially the most, the place it’s simpler to intervene. “I used to be selecting songs from him and vice versa,” Cabrera specifies. There will probably be no scarcity of classics from his classic reminiscent of “The Home Subsequent Door,” “Time Is Later” and “I Hugged You within the Night time.” And they’ll additionally do a model of tango “Araca la cana”, by Enrique Delfino. “Then they’re all our songs, a really massive repertoire, and each of us all the time performing. We’re collectively on stage from begin to end: it’s all very severe interpretive and arranging work,” he factors out.
-How had been these first rehearsals in Uruguay?
Fernando Cabrera: -We began rehearsing in the summertime. The rehearsals had been very curious, as a result of I used to be going with one other thought. I ready myself with one other idea. As a result of it was Hugo, a musician who performs very nicely and is a superb improviser. And that he has a wealth of expertise in jazz, fusion and Uruguayan music that he has refined and developed. So, he thought: “I do not contact something right here, I simply put together issues like that and add slightly observe and that is it.” However from the primary day he stopped my automobile and informed me: “This observe isn’t like that, it would not work right here within the sixth.” I went again to my home small and needed to begin research your subjects triple, as after I was a scholar at age twenty. He made me sweat like loopy however on the similar time it did me good. As a result of all of the cobwebs unfold slightly, It put me into motion. He did me an incredible profit.
Hugo Fattoruso: -I say the identical, as a result of to play with Fernando I’m Hugo. However I’ve to play for Fernando. And you need to be very cautious with it as a result of it’s a really exact architect. With little gasoline it covers hundreds of kilometers. If I play with such a trio or quartet, instrumental songs are passages stuffed with notes and harmonies and every part is sort of free. However right here you need to dose in order to not be a nuisance. After rehearsing so much with Fernando, I’m being free and I used to be discovering the way to be myself for him.
-Cabrera’s music is an everlasting seek for simplicity.
H. F.: -Nevertheless it’s not easy in any respect. It is extremely specific and sophisticated. Anyway, neither of us play Stravinsky. I like him deeply. Having Fernando, who was born in Uruguay, is nice luck. Now I’ll play with him and you’ll’t consider it.
-Was it a problem to rearrange and adapt the songs to the duo format? As a result of they’re each very distinctive.
H. F.: -In my case it’s the first time that I’m going to be in a recital the place the whole repertoire is made up of songs with lyrics. If I play with the candombe group it’s one factor, whether it is with the Trío Oriental it’s one other, the identical after I performed with Trío Fattoruso and with Opa. In these live shows I put in a single or two songs after which they’re all instrumental songs. However right here they’re all songs, as a result of this recital has this attribute. It’s from the facet of the lyrics, the melody and the singing.
F. C.: -For just a few years I wish to work alone. On stage I develop what I do, the guitar, the nuances. However Enjoying a duet can be a really good factor and it places your head in one other place. As a result of it locations you in that query of the combo, of the entire, of being a part of one thing. There you aren’t so soloist. All of the issues that the opposite individual affords are added: his rhythms, his harmonic concepts, the timbre of his voice. A thousand issues start to occur and one cease being a person and turns into a part of a crew. It’s extremely good how the music flows between two. Between the 2 of us we put together the gutter for the water to move by means of, which is the music. It’s a very nice enjoyment, even a philosophical factor.
-They’ve taken very totally different paths inside Uruguayan well-liked music. Did that postpone the assembly?
F. C.: -We’re on totally different circuits, sure. Generally that occurs: that one goes in different instructions and also you by no means cross paths. In Uruguay there are an enormous variety of musicians. And simply as this occurred to me with Hugo, who till now we had by no means met to do one thing concrete, it occurs to me with numerous colleagues with whom I by no means did something. They’re the issues of future, they arrive alone.
-Uruguay is a rustic with a really small music trade and Cabrera selected to remain there. In your case, Fattoruso, you selected to cross borders and lived for a time in the USA and in addition in Brazil. Was it a have to increase?
H. F.: -The primary time we left Uruguay we went very shut, to Buenos Aires. We spent 4 years with a bunch that did not make a lot sense as a result of we sang in a language that was not ours, we performed a mode that was not ours and we wished to repeat a bunch that can’t be copied. (in reference to Los Shakers). We began to suggest one thing authentic from Opa, in the USA. They had been the goals of youth. We went to satisfy him Ringo Thielmann and there we had been buoyant for some time. However Opa opened many doorways for Osvaldo and me. Then I returned to Uruguay however later I went to stay in Brazil.
-Why did you need to migrate once more?
H. F.: -As a result of in Uruguay the period of dictatorship and I did not have a job. He was residing on mortgage at a pal’s home and had a new child son. Then a contingent of musicians from Brazil arrived in Montevideo, amongst them Geraldo Acevedo. And he invited me to go stay in Rio de Janeiro. So there I left Uruguay once more and lived in Rio for nearly 9 years. Then I left Brazil, returned to Uruguay and went again to the USA for eight extra years. In Brazil I used to be working with Djavan three years and at the moment we traveled to Japan. There I met Yahiro Tomohiro, with whom we already did 18 excursions in Japan with Two Orientals. They’re all strokes of luck that I can’t plan.
F. C.: -From my viewpoint, Hugo Fatturoso is in one other league, I do not even go close to there. It isn’t a matter of era, however of high quality. Hugo is on the planet league. Mine is the cabotage music from right here. I’m fortunate that Argentines are very affectionate in direction of Uruguayan musicians. I used to be additionally fortunate that right here in Uruguay there have been individuals who all the time opened doorways for me. I used to be capable of file albums from a younger age, play in the very best venues in my nation and with the very best Uruguayan musicians. They’re all issues that merely They fall to you from the sky. I used to be fortunate to do all that, however the place Hugo is is one other championship. Hugo has left his contribution on numerous albums by numerous colleagues. He has gone on to brighten and play great issues on music information. folklorists, jazz gamers, candomberos, singer-songwriters and rockers. He’s current on hundreds of albums together with his generosity, along with his personal albums and tasks.
-Each have the particularity of placing the music first, with out prioritizing the variety of reproductions, potential listeners or advertising and marketing methods. Is artistic want crucial factor for an artist?
H. F.: -I feel we now have a bonus in advertising and marketing as a result of what we do is honest music. You aren’t getting sizzling there for something. The honesty It is the very best I’ve, as a result of I do not perceive something about advertising and marketing.
F. C.: -Since I used to be younger I’ve devoted myself to attempting to hold out a musical and poetic concept that I had in my head. Then the variety of folks there’s, whether or not they like what they do or not, is secondary as a result of one has to adjust to that private design. I by no means fearful about it being business music or getting on the radio. Apart from, if I fearful about that, I’d be fallacious as a result of I haven’t got the information. I do not know the way to make a factor well-liked. I’ve to do my factor as a result of I’m a servant of that: I dedicate myself to that music that I see in my head and in essentially the most humble approach, with out anticipating something in return. Then, if music at some point needs to offer me one thing again, I am joyful, welcome. In the previous couple of years of my life I’ve finished slightly higher than at first. However I do not search for music to offer me, I solely give to it. I’m an individual who’s on the service of that trigger with out anticipating reward. I like when folks acknowledge me, purchase a file or come see me on the theater. But when that did not occur, I’d nonetheless play the guitar at house or make up songs to play at barbecues with associates. I used to be fortunate to have turn out to be an expert and I thank life.
-What expectations do you may have for this debut in Argentina?
H. F.: -In Argentina we’re in house. I am at house and so is Fernando. They all the time give me love. They deal with me like a brother there. I haven’t got nerves, I’ve anxiousness. I need to play what we do. There are people who find themselves born to stay and others who’re born to kill. I used to be born to stay and play. And to assist somebody with music. Now we’re performing a variety of duet songs and I’m pleased with life.
F. C.: -I subscribe to Hugo’s phrases. I really feel each issues on the similar time: I really feel anxiousness and I additionally really feel supported by the general public. I have been going there for years and I am all the time trying ahead to coming again.