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Honestidad brutal
Andrés Calamaro · 1999 · Track 13
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The song Son las nueve by Andrés Calamaro has that air of a Buenos Aires dawn that seeps through the strings of the guitar and the piano. It sounds as if you had recorded it at three in the morning in a bar in Buenos Aires, with the echo of laughter and clinking glasses in the background. It's not just the time the title suggests, but the moment when the night turns liquid and the words sound clearer, rawer. The song progresses with a rhythm that seems to drag itself along, as if each measure were a step closer to dawn, yet without haste, without urgency, as if time itself had frozen in that instant.
Calamaro arrived at Son las nueve after years of moving between bands and projects, playing just about everything: from blues to rock, through fleeting groups that served as springboards. Before recording it, he had already been part of Raíces in Uruguay, the Chorizo Colorado Blues Band with his friend Augusto Gringui Herrera, and even been part of Stress, that group that ended up being the seed of something bigger. When Son las nueve saw the light of day, it already carried within it all those experiences, that sound built from failed rehearsals and nights of live music. The song doesn’t sound like a studio recording, but like a stolen moment among friends, with instruments half-tuned and the drums keeping time as if the world had no hurry to move forward.