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Mediocampo
Jaime Roos · 1984 · Track 6
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There's something in the air of Los futuros murguistas that you can feel even before the first note starts: that blend of urgency and nostalgia, as if time had stopped during a rehearsal of a murga group at three in the morning. Jaime Roos doesn't just capture the rhythm of those groups that take to the streets during carnival, but projects it forward, like a sung prophecy. The song doesn't sound like a historical record, but rather a prophecy turned into music: the future murga performers are rehearsing today for a party that hasn't arrived yet, but already beats in every chord.
Roos wrote it far from Uruguay, in a kitchen in Amsterdam where the smell of food mixed with that of ink and reheated coffee. It was the late seventies, when the Uruguayan musician was living in Europe and working in a restaurant to survive. The lyrics, however, don't speak of distance, but of permanence: those characters rehearsing in backyards, dressing up in colors and laughter, are the same ones who will one day fill the squares. The song ended up on Mediocampo, his 1984 album, as the sixth track on a record that already smelled of damp earth and distant drums. At just two minutes and four seconds long, Los futuros murguistas needs no more: its magic lies in that perfect synthesis between the ephemeral and the eternal.