Caja Negra, the cycle of interviews of Filo.News led by Julio Leiva, which had its first opening to the public by the hand of Fito Páez, who left several jewels from the reissue of his best-selling album, “El amor después del amor”, to the anecdote of how the femicide of his grandmother and aunt marked him. Featured quotes by Fito Páez in Caja Negra
To break the ice, the singer began by telling that before arriving at the Usina del Arte, where the interview open to the public was held, he almost died: “In an allergic some very edged paintings are presented. This is the fourth or fifth time it has happened to me, that where the glottis closes is a respiratory allergy and only saves you or a tracheostomy or an injection of a strong corticosteroid. So I would tell you that an hour and a half ago I got a decadron like that and now we are here splendid, talking, I all Paul Smith as if nothing had happened, but I could be in Chacarita quietly. Asked if music saved his life, Fito Paez said: “Music is a language that allowed me to be freer. He taught me freedom. And then, when you meet it’s a little bit of that, then you don’t want to go anymore. It’s like a hard drug, so no, I think things don’t save your life, unless it’s a decadron, as in this case. Music is a beautiful language, it doesn’t need the meaning, it doesn’t need the words that are sometimes so invasive, so swollen.” I have absolute, obscene freedom. in the sense that the first contract we signed with EMI Odeon, a leonine contract totally in their favor, of course. I sign it with total ignorance on the subject, but with a certain brazenness and with a single clear direction: ‘They will not touch a single comma of what I do, nor a note’. So today, after so many years in the industry. They fear me more than they love me.”
“In ‘Love After Love’ everything flowed. I was in love with Cecilia. Cecilia Roth was a central person in my life because I came from an extremely marginal world. Not that it ceases to be. Artists are all marginal all our lives. But at the time it was a little more marginal. Then Cecilia puts her teeth on me, shows me that there is a sun. It teaches me that you can eat something beyond the mentoliptus. That there are drinks beyond the Gancia and then all that goes forward. That was also a great stimulus, the love, the recovery of now yes, a little sense. Because when you lose so much, so much sense after delusional situations in one’s life, there you are left buoyant. That more than I didn’t stop, that I was inspired all day pum pam giving it, giving it and everything came out and worked.” This year I’m going to record ‘Love After Love’ returned. And we’re going to do a tour with that. We met Daniel Grinbank, who knew him from the 80s, and we got excited about this, and we said let’s go ahead, let’s do this which is a beautiful adventure, that after having done the trilogy, I’m already like tired of doing new things. So we’re going to close this record, we’re going to disrupt it, to transvestite it. We are going to make the 14 songs, ayornadas and record them with guests, as the original album also had its guests, but with others”. As for the participants of the reissue of ‘Love After Love’ Fito said: “I’m going to send the same song to several singers, several singers. Of course the one I’m going to get my hands on is going to be me inside the music with Gustavo Born and Olivero. But out there I encourage Bizarrap, to make a loop. Say… It’s for playing. We’ll see. Dillon falls a thousand, for example. Naty Peluso is a superior artist, I say to throw away some names. I like a lot of young kids and kids.”
To refer to the Argentine music scene, the singer said: “We have to know that Argentina especially is one of the great musical laboratories in the world. That allows you to give a Gerardo Gandini and an Atahualpa Yupanqui, an Isaco Abitbol and a Charly García, a Mercedes Sosa and a Roberto Goyeneche. I want to say that everything happens here, all the time and not only music, in the theater everything happens, in the plastic arts everything happens, in dance everything happens. Then I get the feeling that the Argentine laboratory is never examinable, because as it is in permanent boiling I can not say well, this period and the other … there’s always something going on and there’s always a madman doing something beautiful somewhere, even if you don’t see that in the media.” She then recounted the death of her grandmother and aunt: “It was a femicide. It was a triple femicide with Fermina, who worked in the house seven months pregnant. It was very wild. But femicides did not appear in the 80s. Obviously they kill three women, two kids who had already killed two women before. He clearly has a touch with women and there is a savage, brutal femicide.” The night the murder happened Charly was with me in Rio de Janeiro and I was or was a zombie. Charly stays with me and tells me let’s go see a movie, find Purple Rain, I was a ghost and he was Charly Garcia. He puts me right to the TV and starts to pass the movie, I was… to me it was like an abstract drawing, all in motion. And at one point the last track comes, let’s Go Crazy, it’s called the theme which is extraordinary. It gives birth to a band and it’s beautiful and the rhythm was more mash up. I was excited, he took out some zombieland and I stayed, Prince did not stop moving and Charly without looking at me says: what about this one when he falls off the horse? When he says that phrase and he gives me a fit of laughter and so does he. We start laughing, one guy totally down, down and the other who is jumping and says ‘this one is going to fall off the horse’. For that and for countless reasons, I love Charly Garcia because she made me laugh on one of the darkest nights of my life.” Fabi pulls me out of bed. I lived in a state of permanent drunkenness, of pillaging, of anesthesia, very irresponsible aside, very suicidal totally, because there was no longer any sense, they killed your family already this. My dad had died a year ago. I enter some mambos that have no explanation and no one can put, nor psychiatry can talk about what happens to a person who is affected in this way. Fabi grabbed my hair one afternoon and put me in a car and took me to the rehearsal room in Caballito and to the room with Luis Alberto to rehearse the la la, if that is to save someone’s life, she did it and it was not the only time she did it. ”
