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Almendra
Almendra · 1969
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Duración5:56
ÁlbumAlmendra
Año1969
ISRCARF036900017
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The story behind
The song A estos hombres tristes, with its almost six minutes in length, unfolds as a complex piece that eludes simple classifications. It is the seventh track on the first album by Almendra, released in 1969. What makes it stand out is its intricate musical architecture, with rhythmic variations and melodic lines that intertwine unconventionally, even evoking certain tango-like airs. This way of composing anticipates the path that Luis Alberto Spinetta would follow in later projects, showcasing a "new type of urban song" that defined the sound of that album. On the album cover, each song is associated with a figurative code of the man who appears faint: the eye, the tear, or the suction cup arrow. A estos hombres tristes corresponds to the eye, as does Color humano.
This theme, composed and performed by Spinetta, was gestated in part from childhood memories, from those Sunday afternoons in Argentina that he described as "that dreaded Argentine Sunday." He felt a mix of loneliness and melancholy on those days, even though they were also moments of family togetherness and good food. Spinetta even alluded to the color blue, which after the film Yellow Submarine by The Beatles, became a forbidden color for happiness, but which he used to break with that feeling of a gray Sunday. The album Almendra I, of which this song is a part, was fundamental to the development of the so-called "national rock" in Argentina, and Spinetta, at just 19 years old, led this proposal that was inspired by the cultural revolution represented by Anglo-Saxon rock of the time, especially the work of The Beatles.