2023-11-01 06:44:00
To the surprise of the thousands of fans that Soda Stereo had garnered throughout Latin America through years of exhausting tours, Gustavo Cerati presented “Yellow Love” on November 1, 1993. his first solo work, which gave clues regarding the artistic and personal conflicts that gradually distanced him from the famous band and, therefore, meant a breath of fresh air.
The creative process of this plate was also marked by a period of personal peace for the artist, who had found a glimmer of peace in the consolidation of hisHis couple with the Chilean model Cecilia Amenábar, in the middle of the pregnancy of Benito, her first child.
The album took shape in the peace of the home that the couple had established in Santiago de Chile and in an absolutely individual way, which It allowed Cerati to give free rein to his artistic concerns, from a place of experimentation without having to make concessions and without having to face exhausting friction.
Only once the songs found their definitive channel, The musician summoned his partner in Soda Stereo Zeta Bosio to help him in production Tweety González, a historical collaborator of the bandto give him a hand in programming.
Thus, Cerati gave shape to a production that It featured eleven pop songs, with a strong character between experimental and electronic.which also guaranteed him coexistence with an eventual hit.
Without a doubt, “I take you so you can take me” summed up the profile of “Yellow love”, a collaboration of the then happy couple, which described the musician’s personal moment under a song-like atmosphere that invited dancing.
But the plaque also highlighted the song that gave it its name, the foreboding “Lisa”, “Avenida Alcorta” and the not at all casual tribute to Luis Alberto Spinetta with a reading of “Bajan”, a song from the significant album “Artaud”, created in circumstances that allowed a parallel to be drawn with “Yellow Love.” The experimental character, for its part, was strongly noticeable in cuts like “Pulsar”, “Rombos” and “Torteval” due to the samples used.
Much of the history of “Amor Amarillo” begins to be explained in the intense touring activity with massive concerts that Soda Stereo had undertaken since 1990 with the successful album “Animal Song”.
“Yellow love” and the partnership between Cerati and Melero
Although it was a job that paid sonorous tribute to a certain stylistic tradition within Argentine rockthe reality is that from there the artistic partnership between Cerati and Daniel Melero intensified, something that led to the joint album “Holy Colors” and in the radical musical turn shown in “Dynamo”, the trio’s next production, both released in 1992.
These works They dialogued with new trends that were beginning to gain strength in the local scene, from the emergence of bands like Juana la Loca, Dangerous Sparrows, The Witches and Mint Tuesday, among others, mostly sponsored by the Cerati-Melero duo.
However, this consolidation increased the artistic and personal disagreements congenital in the famous trio made up of Cerati, Zeta and drummer Charly Alberti.
The physical and mental exhaustion that the intense agenda meant for the leader of the trio, which amplified the clashes, led to an impasse; and her stage of full love with Amenábar It turned out to be the ideal space for calm.
In the privacy of the home in Chile, Cerati was creating and creating his first solo work, without creative limits and with the only collaboration of your partner. First great contextual parallel that 20 years ago had surrounded the preparation of “Artaud” by Spinetta.
Once the songs were defined, the leader of Soda summoned Zeta and Tweety, and he put the final touches on what was recorded in Chile in the studio he had set up in the Buenos Aires town of Florida. Another point of connection with “Artaud”, when Spinetta chose to surround himself with his affections and oldest comrades by adding the former Almendra Emilio del Guercio and Rodolfo García, and his brother Gustavo, to the registry.
Finally, the incorporation among the eleven songs of “Amor Amarillo” from the song “Bajan” finished closing the circle that connected this work with the solo debut of its reference.
Although Soda Stereo continued to exist until their final concert in 1997 and Cerati only released a solo album once more in 1999, when he presented “Bocanada”. Definitely, this 1993 experience anticipated that he needed a space where his freedom would not be limited and predicted an individual journey that would surpass that of the famous trio.
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