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Honestidad brutal
Andrés Calamaro · 1999 · Track 12
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In Those Kisses, the voice of Andrés Calamaro intertwines with a piano that seems to whisper rather than sing. It's not just a melody: the song breathes between chords that stretch like the kisses the title evokes, slow and laden with memory. The arrangement plays with unexpected silences, as if each note had to earn its place in the conversation. There's something in the way the bass and drums sway, almost like an unsteady waltz, that gives it that nostalgic air without slipping into sentimentality. The 4:34 duration is no coincidence: precisely the time needed for the song not to become a memory too long.
Calamaro recorded it after years moving between bands and keyboards, from his early steps with the bandoneon to performing in Raíces in Uruguay. Before becoming the Calamaro we all know, he went through groups like Elmer's Band or Stress, where he shared the stage with Gustavo Cerati and Héctor Zeta Bosio, musicians who would later define another era of Argentine rock. But in this song, what matters is not the past of his collaborations, but how the song sounds as if it had been written in a Montevideo café at three in the morning, with cigarette smoke mixing with the piano keys.