Dante Spinetta under the influence of funk, fantasy, sex and his parents: “A lot of artists are behind the ticket, and it shows”

“There are many years of making music. already more than 30, boyfriend. I’m still young but I’ve been sharing songs with a lot of artists for longer than doing anything else: Stevie Wonder, Earth, Wind and Fire, mi viejo, Fito, Charly, Mercedes Sosa…”, of Dante Spinette, 46, to sum up his journey. The one who officially started in 1988 (“The formidable monkey”, breast there Luis Alberto Spinetta), continued with his almost Siamese sound Emmanuel Horvilleur In Ilya Kuryaki and the Valderramas, diversified as a soloist from 2002 to explore alternatives (r&b, reggaeton, soul, trap…) before many. And by the end of 2022, the songbook has swelled by Sweet tablefifth studio album with his first and last name, not counting the soundtrack of 4×4 (2019) nor the live versions of Niguiri sessions (2020).

“Sweet table This is the best part of the party. I always wanted to sound like this album, I got to a place that I was looking for internally. It’s the most funkero what I did,” he says. TV show. “Funk is a very, very physical and very sexual style. The album is also sexual: it’s the sweetness of a kiss, a caress, love. Algunas veces cuando estamos tocando en vivo con toda la banda, me imagino dos robots gigantes haciendo el amor, en la cima de una montaña, mientras el mundo se acaba”, amplified Spinetta, alguien that considered that “the fantasy is very important in the Music. I’m a sci-fi lover, part of me also wants to live in this world of jedi and swords with the Eye of Omens, like the Thundercats”.

We are at The Wild Goddessthe studio and creative haven of Luis Alberto which, since his death, has been run by his children Dante, Katherine, Valentino there Vera, which give it an almost exclusively family use. “We don’t rent it commercially but we lent it to a friend. For example, Nathy Peluso recently recorded a song. In the family there are a lot of musicians and we take over”, says Dante sitting at the console installed at the place where, moreover, everything began for him: “Here we record leather manufacturing with Emma. He was called Cintacalma at this moment. I used to go to school in the afternoon and when I left, I arrived here and my old man was always playing with someone. All the time there was music. And it continues to be so.”

Next to Pablo Gonzalez, Matias Mendez there Axel Introinihis band for the living, Dante recorded nearly all of the album’s music on a handful of pandemic days and in these square meters of Villa Urquiza. In Minneapolis, USA, he recorded a brass section with arrangements of Michael B.Nelsoncollaborator of Prince. It is precisely these bronzes that mark an effervescent and festive beginning which, over the course of the journey, fades until it changes into an intimate tonality – sometimes in the form of a ballad, sometimes in orchestral mode – to frame visions and reflections on the losses, links, ruptures, the spiritual and the elusive beyond appearances and screens.

“Funk gives me a place where I can combine everything I love,” he insists. “Musically, I feel more satisfied with the harmonic, rhythmic, arrangement and style possibilities, to be able to take it to new sensations. And everything makes sense. It’s post-hip-hop funk: on many tracks, he could easily rap instead of sing. But the urban will always be in my genetics, I am that”, he defines about this work that he wants to present in a theater “like the Opera, or something like that”.

Why does everything sound so the same? / I arrived for funky you life”, robotic voice intertwined with Ca7riel in a soul science fiction entitled “Gambit”, a track in which, like “Sudaka” (with Thunder) Dante shines his role as conjurer of time. “With Mariano Lopez, the engineer who recorded the album, we looked for material from the 80s to be able to recreate some effects from that era. It drives me crazy to play with time, to do something super current but mixed with something from the past, to try to recreate textures. The album is very traditional in this and comes out at a time when there is unfortunately a lot of musical fast food. There are many artists who are not really artists. They are behind the ticket, there is no background and it shows. On the other hand, there is strong resistance from the kids I admire, like Thunder, Ca7riel, Wos, Ysy A, Duki, Neo Track, Nicki Nicole, Nathy Fur, who do things with their heart, laying eggs, soul and love. And I’ve been part of the resistance since I was born. I will always be on the side of the Jedi, ”he plants.

“This album is also the gratitude of having had the parents that I have and who are now my guardian angels”, says Dante about Luis Alberto (he left this world in February 2012) and Patricia Salazar (died August 2021). “I was born in a house where the art was so viscerally there, exhibited and shared with us. I grew up with the possibility of someone believing in me. Because the trust they place in you is important when, as a child, we show them for the first time the first thing they wrote to their parents. They nurtured me a lot and that’s why I also survived a lot of the prejudices that existed when I started,” he says.

“’Hey, you make music because you’re Spinetta’s son.’ ‘Is it rap? It sucks, you’re a sepoy’”, Dante today repeats some of the comments he heard when he was a pigeon. “I learned the hard way and with strength from my dad who used to tell me, ‘Everything they tell you has to suck both balls’. My old man sucked everything they told him, too. He struggled a lot to be himself. And he never stopped working. And there were times when we had nothing, boyfriend. We had food, nothing else. But we slept with the mattresses on the floor, in an empty apartment. My old man kept releasing music and there was no money to pay the bills. Friends helped him. But he’s not slowing down. And that’s the lesson I take from him. My old wife was a very great warrior, with a very difficult life, with a very heavy date. And he bet on her, she was a lioness. This is why I have so much love that I am not afraid”, he sums up and quotes himself with the hook of “Sudaka”.

Patricia’s illness, a terminal cancer, slows Dante’s mind and the walk of Sweet table for an instant. “When my mother got sick, I stopped recording. It already had almost all the weapon structure and energy of the record. I even knew the title but I needed to write a lot of lyrics and sing At that time, I had composed a song for my mother, called “Premier amour”, and I showed it to her. She listened to it without the lyrics, there was a little something, nothing more. I I knew inside what it was. And so did she. I wanted him to listen to it even though it wasn’t finished, but he felt the energy, he heard the string arrangements that we recorded with Claude Cardon. And he liked it,” he recalls.

“When my mother passed away, I spent many months in which I could not write anything. I did not even try, there was no desire or energy. I took refuge in my family to be well and little by little it ebbed and I wrote all the lyrics. The one on this song was the last one I finished, because it was very difficult to write a goodbye letter for mom, ”he says about the emotional peak of the album.” The theme describes this situation where there is something between a son and a mother that only they know. So many things we’ve been through, so many stories that only the two of us know and it’s forever. It’s the song,” he explains.

While Dario Grandinetti there Sandra Ballesteros they ate with kisses under the direction of Eliseo Subiela in the dream The dark side of the heart (1992), the cinema menu of Dante and Emmanuel was class B, between strips of karateka anti-heroes and bizarre porn. “When I have the title of the song or the album, the first thing I do is googling Let’s see if there is something similar. And when I put on ‘The Dark Side of the Heart’, I realized it was a Subiela movie, which I really didn’t know. So it ended up being a ref unexpected, a coincidence that I liked,” he says of the namesake song that was the album’s first preview.

“I also found the pun interesting The Dark Side of the Moon. The story told in the song is a kind of separation, but also a celebration of this moment. Because it’s over, yes, but that’s it, we’re free. Sometimes it’s like this: you realize that there was something that had to end and when it ends it’s a release for both parties, even if it costs a little. The song is about that. And believe me, I know the separations, ”he admits.

—Your albums usually show the state of your heart, but in Sweet table the diagnosis is diffuse. How’s it going?

“I have a very good heart. I’m dating Camille, a girl I loved for many years. And she had a boyfriend. But one day he broke up and put me as. And it’s. I am very happy with her, who is a chef, apart from that. Generate amazing food potions. She is very sensitive and very cute, in every way. And besides, I’m calm with my children, with the music, with the group that gets into it. It’s a good time, the sweet table.

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