El ritmo del lunes

If there's a Monday that sounds like a ritual, it's this one. The Rhythm of Monday doesn't start with a drumbeat or a clean chord: it begins with a dragging beat, as if the weekend hadn't quite ended yet. There's something in that loop that doesn't fit into four beats, an imbalance that forces your feet to move before the guitar kicks in to carry the melody. It's not a recording error, but a choice: Monday isn't in a hurry, but it doesn't stay still either.

Calamaro arrived at this song after years of playing in bands of all styles, from blues to raw rock. In Uruguay, where he recorded his first album as a keyboardist in B. O. V., he already showed that habit of mixing genres without warning. Later, with groups like Elmer's Band or Stress —the band that later evolved into Los Estereotipos—, he kept exploring sounds that didn't fit into a single label. The Rhythm of Monday is one of those songs that sounds like a summary: there's rock, blues, and even a nod to the tango he learned as a child from his teacher Osvaldo Calo. He recorded it in three days, with borrowed equipment, and the result was a track that doesn't ask for permission to stick around.