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Tester de violencia
Luis Alberto Spinetta · 1988 · Track 10
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Duración2:53
ÁlbumTester de violencia
Año1988
ISRCARF038800061
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The story behind
Luis Alberto Spinetta wrote Alcanfor in 1970, when he was still in Almendra, a band that helped form the rock nacional Argentine. The song was recorded later, in 1988, as part of the album Téster de violencia, a disc that seeks to understand violence from within, not just from outside. The lyrics speak of bodies as places where violence acts, using images such as ships trapped in sands or ruins that become bodies.
The song is the last track of the original LP, and in the 1991 CD an additional track was added. The voice of the text is in third person, as if speaking about a group. Spinetta mentioned that the title refers to his childhood, to his mother, who used alcohol with camphor to cure his chickenpox marks. The final verse, about "blocks and lines that assault my space", evokes his fears of big things, such as locomotives or the Monumental stadium.