By the Zonagirante.com team @spinning zone
Let's talk about history again. How good songs remain and permanently mark the events and circumstances in which they were made, published, and listened to by the audience of the time and future generations. It's normal, and we might even say commonplace, for a band to pay tribute to colleagues who created memorable anthems worthy of being remembered for years to come. But what is unusual (rather, it's quite a striking act) is for four legendary figures of the music scene to decide to unite at the Coliseo Theatre in Buenos Aires. to sing their own versions of songs from different eras of Argentine rock, including very recently created compositions. Yes, just a few days ago, León Gieco, Lito Vitale, Hilda Lizarazu y Juan Carlos Baglietto, beside An Espil y Manu Sija, their special guests, decided to put on a nearly two-hour show on the stage in the Retiro neighborhood of Buenos Aires, performing Arco Iris, Wos, Babasónicos, Divididos, Trueno, Victor Heredia, La Barra de Chocolate, Lito Nebbia, Pescado Rabioso, Eruca Sativa, Manal, Charly García, Los Gatos and Celeste Carballo, added to one or two classics of his own authorship.
As the project presentation itself states, «"The four artists share a friendship and an inspiring connection, and it is precisely this union that brings us together. Raise your voice is an invocation to the true spirit of rock, to the essence of a countercultural movement that, with its transformative power, became a universal and eternal language.". Raise your voice It's a multimedia show, which combines stage performance and on-screen display of some studio moments, This makes the show dynamic and fun, and it fully conveys the entire idea and its development process. The result is entertaining and manages to move the audience in the theater, not just through a natural sense of nostalgia. It goes even further, since the format and versions presented are different and, in a way, daring. Pair thousand (from Divididos), for example, adds to the original folkloric sense of the song an orchestral setting that lifts the spirits from the first trumpet blast. The madman (from Babasónicos), becomes a moving fantasy tale in the voice of Hilda Lizarazu. Believe (by Eruca Sativa), sung by An Espil, grows into a stylized, yet exciting, version of the initial chamamé. The culmination of this event is the sum of the protagonists, using only voices, keyboard, and violin, of Collective Unconscious, with an euphoric audience chanting and cheering at that moment. I'm sure Charly would have celebrated it the same way..
In short, 105 minutes of celebration filled with great tunes that haven't lost their impact and that the audience continues to shout along to. Therefore, to conclude, we'll share the words of the project's director, Leonardo Kreimer, when it says:
The mission is to listen if we haven't already.
The mission is to see if we haven't already seen
The mission is to raise our voices so that something of ours remains suspended in the air
Raising your voice is not shouting
Raising your voice is not just about shouting. Duration is about impact.
The ghosts of fear are not the imperfection of fantasy
Weakness is not the imperfection of the struggle
Rain is not the imperfection of a beautiful day
Raising your voice is not shouting
Anyone can shout.
We raise our voices
RAISE YOUR VOICE