The singer Dante Spinetta, born in the Argentine city of Buenos Aires 49 years ago, is in Mexico to promote his new album ‘Día 3’, an album of twelve songs with a spiritual background elaborated from “the soul” in the face of a current world marked by the “digital bubble of the algorithm and screens”.
“It is an album that tries to connect through a story of a heartbreak, there is a whole kind of story through finding oneself also in this world that also at times proposes us to be more separated from each other. We are each in a kind of bubble of algorithms and screens and we connect less and less as people,” he explains in an interview with EFE.
In his sixth album as a soloist, after his time with the musical duo Illya Kuryaki and the Valderramas, Spinetta assures that it is a work with “a lot of blood and seriousness” in which he tried to compose with “soul” and “love”, something that, in his opinion, does not always happen in the music industry.
“In music I also see it, more and more people making records that are not made with soul, they are not made with love. They are made just for the simple fact of seeing if we stick together and sell like this,” he says.
Another of the themes addressed in ‘Día 3’ is the “epidemic of anxiety and loneliness” that, in his opinion, modern society is experiencing, a circumstance that “we still don’t realize,” adds the son of the legendary Argentine singer Alberto Spinetta, who died in 2012.
“As a parent, I also had to get more involved in this. I also had to see the reactions of the children when they went crazy with cell phones. And I think you have to give a limited use to these things so that they don’t drive you crazy because we can’t stop looking each other in the eye,” he says.
Dante Spinetta and the power of music in the face of a “difficult situation” in the world
Nevertheless, he vindicates the power of music – a “food for the soul”, he says – in a “difficult” international context characterized by “wars, people rummaging through garbage to eat, politicians who say anything and violence”.
“It is a sad moment, but I consider myself very fortunate to be able to make music, to be here in Mexico, when there are also people who have a lot of talent and do not have the possibility (…) It is good that we communicators bring some light at this time,” he said.
In the North American country he performed with his band mate, Emmanuel Horvilleur, last weekend at the Vive Latino festival, one of the most important events in the Latin American music scene.
“I think people also want to listen to live bands again (…) And in our case we are a kind of fusion of rock with funk and hip hop that was born a bit in the 90s, in that musical crossbreeding also of Latin American representation. Because we are kids who grew up listening to a lot of different music from all the sounds of Latin America”, he points out.
Regarding the weight of his surname, the singer emphasizes that it is not a “pressure” for him, while he is grateful to his father because he is a “genius” and was the one who “gave me wings”, reported Agencia EFE.
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