{"id":7637,"date":"2019-12-19T16:11:29","date_gmt":"2019-12-19T15:11:29","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.sergiomessina.com\/fosforo\/?p=7637"},"modified":"2020-02-16T16:06:30","modified_gmt":"2020-02-16T15:06:30","slug":"music-for-uplifting-gormandizers-perfidia","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.sergiomessina.com\/fosforo\/archives\/7637","title":{"rendered":"Music For Uplifting Gormandizers: Perfidia"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"\"<\/a>I have a weak spot for the special mix of love,sadness and cal\u00f2r<\/em> in Latin music, may it be spanish, italian, portuguese, colombian or mexicana. This is a man thing: sure, women sing of pain and love too, but these songs are devised as displays for “male vulnerability”. Of course it’s a toxic and wrong vulnerability, and it often comes with violent feelings: woman, you’re bad, evil, but I cannot let you go. Yet, the music, the melodies are so passionate in a simple, corny way that I can’t help but love them. It’s the case with Perf\u00ecdia<\/em> (emphasis on the first I), which is so catchy I could remember it from way, way back when I heard it on Tv as a kid. Then YouTube came along and I discovered the Los Panchos version (this one in particular<\/a>, with the endless intro), which is unsurpassable: Hernando Avil\u00e9s, the singer, carries the melody like a prince. Everyone covered Perfidia<\/em>, from Linda Ronstadt to Bocelli, but very few managed to capture the macho despair of Los Panchos.<\/p>\n

My version features a fixation of mine: Rhythm boxes. Not just old drum machines, which I like, but those ancient instruments (often attached to organs) that only had preset rhythms: Rock, Swing, Beguine, Cha Cha, etc. I really like these presets, and I’ve often used them in the past. In this case it’s (a high quality sample of) the Bossanova<\/em> rhythm from the 1973 Roland TR 66<\/a> (pictured above, click to enlarge), slightly modified. The rest is played by hand. Obviously I didn’t go for amor y sentimiento<\/em> as only Los Panchos can. Instead I imagined Perfidia<\/em> in an exotic dance bar for older weed smokers, played by a guitar orchestrina with a drum box.<\/p>\n

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