Fito Páez

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  • Abre Paez
    Abre Paez

    "Open a little mercy/Open all immensity," sings the brilliant Argentinean singer/songwriter (in Spanish) over spacy synths on this ambitious and sophisticated 1999 album's opener. Eleven-minute centrepiece "La Casa Desaparecida" (The Disappeared House) unwinds Páez's poetically sour history of modern Argentina over a reggae beat. Another extended track, "Desierto" (Desert), is an encyclopedic study of decadence and desire over heavy, head-nodding riffs—and Páez sounds right at home.

  • Circo Beat
    Circo Beat

    Fito Paez’s 1992 album El Amore Despues del Amor made him one of the biggest names in Argentinian music, a songwriter who reconciled expressive psychedelia with modern production and boundary-blurring arrangements. Co-produced by Roxy Music guitarist Phil Manzanera, this streamlined Paez’s eclecticism even further, conjuring Paul McCartney (“Normal”) and Elvis Costello (“Mariposa Tecknicolor”) while still leaving room for detours—see “Dejarlas Partir,” a soul ballad carried by flute and accordion. Though Paez was more expressive and comparatively better known, it’s interesting to think of American indie bands like Flaming Lips and Olivia Tremor Control as contemporaries: kids weaned on ‘60s music trying to fashion their influences into something new.

  • El Amor Después del Amor
    El Amor Después del Amor

    The Argentine rocker’s 1992 tour de force dives deep into the world as Fito Páez sees it. Mining a comfortable vein of midtempo pop-rock, the album is all about the details, like his deceptively sweet voice, which describes a world where tragedies happen and absurdity is only a hair’s breadth away. “Creo” captures what happens when passion becomes revulsion, and “La Rueda Mágica” extends some of the dreamiest New Wave harmonies this side of Crowded House. Still, when Páez finds his religion—and he does—it’s love, and nothing else.

  • La La La
    La La La

    This collaborative double album produced by pianist and singer Fito Páez and Luis Alberto Spinetta represents an epic meeting of the minds between two titans of Argentinean art rock: one an established master (Spinetta), the other a young, rising torchbearer (Páez). Whether the pair are exploring sublime, strings-laced prog-pop (“Hay otra canción”) or slinky, featherweight jazz (“Instant-táneas”), La La La is as raw and alive as it is baroque and brainy, a complex masterpiece and an indelible document of their warm, intellectual friendship.

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About Fito Páez

Fito Paez is an Argentine singer, songwriter, author, screenwriter, and film director. A founding member of the political artist's movement La Trova Rosarina, he is one of Argentine rock's most beloved cultural figures. After a decade of releasing records, Paez broke into the mainstream with 1992's El Amor Después del Amor -- the best-selling rock record in Argentina's history. After years of pop chart success, he returned to playing rock on 2006's Grammy-winning El Mundo Cabe en una Canción. In 2010 Páez closed the main stage of the Bicentennial Revolución de Mayo, playing a two-hour concert for an audience of more than two million. In 2013, he published his first novel, La Puta Diabla. In 2017, Paez released the acclaimed experimental electronic work La Ciudad Liberada. He issued the autobiographical Los Años Salvajes in 2021 and was presented with a Lifetime Achievement Award by the Latin Grammy Foundation.

BORN
1963年3月13日
GENRE
Alternative and Latin Rock

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