Cementerio Club

When you dive into Cementerio Club, you encounter an atmosphere that immediately captivates you. It's a slow blues, with that jazzy feel in the percussion that gives it a particular pulse. The bass has a leading role, marking the way with a line that feels deep, while the electric guitar riff underscores the melancholy of the piece. It is said that the guitar solo that Luis Alberto Spinetta unleashes in this song is one of the most personal and accomplished, something that even Gustavo Cerati acknowledged as one of the best in history. The title itself leads us to imagine a jazz club in an unusual place, a cemetery, where the voice singing is that of someone who is no longer here, sharing an intimate thought: 'just when I was thinking of you, baby, I dropped dead'.

This track is part of Artaud, an album that Spinetta composed in the second half of 1973, inspired by the work of the surrealist poet Antonin Artaud. The tragedy and inner richness of marginalized and suffering characters resonated with him, connecting with the context of political violence that was occurring in South America at that time. Spinetta saw in that desperation and in certain aspects of the rock of the era, such as drug use and 'senseless promiscuity', an incompatibility with his own vision. Therefore, simultaneously with the album, he published his Manifiesto Spinetta, where he spoke of preserving the 'hard essence' of rock and responding with love. The duration of this piece is 4 minutes and 59 seconds, and it was produced by Luis Alberto Spinetta himself.