Almost thirty songs – of course a good percentage of them belonging to Los Piojos – over about three hours and in front of a joyous audience made up of around 40 thousand people constituted a consecrated night for the charismatic artist.
It is that although he has already accumulated five stages with this solo project, last night’s stands out for having taken his artistic proposal one step further with the special presence of a symphony orchestra in a passage of the concert.
It was when he showed live part of the material from “Sueños (un viaje en el tiempo)”, the album released this year recorded in this format, which combines new compositions and new readings of greatest hits; which will be formally presented on December 21 and 22 at Luna Park, as announced at the time.
To this was added a percussion string by the group La Chilinga, who knew how to contribute to the amalgamation between Los Persas and the symphony orchestra, but also later appeared in a leading role when it was necessary to evoke sounds from the Río del Plata.
In this way, the show contrasted the well-known celebratory passages, with almost soccer overtones, that characterize Ciro y Los Persas, with the commented symphonic symbiosis that gave it a more solemn tone, although without altering its more visceral side.
Well, whatever form it takes, Los Persas has long since found a way of working that allows it to extend ties to various aspects of rock, with solid results, and last night they flaunted it.
It was there that Ciro had the guitarists Juan Gigena Ábalos and Rodrigo Pérez, and the bassist Broder Bastos as great musical and scenic slopes; and one step further back to drummer Lulo Isod and keyboardist Martín Löhrengel. A wind section and a girls’ choir added African-American colors.
The day was taking on color early, as the field was populated while Manu Martínez and El Plan de la Mariposa, respectively, offered their opening shows. The flags and the songs of soccer tone of the public, like a surviving ritual of the ’90s, seemed to take things along predictable lanes.
When Ciro burst onto the scene almost an hour late than announced with a string that included “Red Baron”, “Today is Today”, “Garage Band” and “Civilization”, the feeling that there would be no major surprises and everything would be based on the energy generated in the exchange between artist and public seemed to be confirmed.
But it didn’t take long for “Vas a danza” to provoke a first emotion, “Juira” kicked the board with a fiery funk spirit and “Tan solo”, as if it were necessary, renewed Ciro’s pact with the public.
Thus came the time for the Plata Symphony Orchestra, conducted by maestro Gustavo Fontana, to show just a little of what was done on the latest album, recorded with the Mendoza Symphony Orchestra. “Before and after”, “I’m winning”, the sophisticated “Carrousel”, “Pacific” and “Verano del `92”, the latter also with La Chilinga as a guest, made up a set that stood out as the most exquisite of the night .
Towards the end of this passage, a fun video with Ciro dressed as a kind of Mozart announced the December shows at Luna Park with an orchestra of 70 musicians.
The withdrawal of the symphony orchestra left the classical formation of Los Persas on stage again, so the rest of the concert concentrated on feeding the back and forth with the fans from the celebratory explosion.
Then it was time for “I like it”, “Manise” -song voted on networks over “Parecido” which was the other option in this popular compulsion-, “Ciudad animal”, “Luz”, “La rosa” and the cover from Viejas Locas “Although nobody cares anymore”, accompanied by a warm message from Ciro to Pity Álvarez. “May I return soon to the stage and to a normal life”, was the wish.
But fundamentally, the classics of Los Piojos arrived with “Como Ali” and “Pistolas”, both with Alejandro, Ciro’s son, as a guest; “Genius”, “Marado”, “El farolito”, “El spa de los doctors crotos”, “Muévelo” and “Babilonia”.
For the closing, the soccer wink that is born from the public and that Ciro replicates in different ways found its perfect synthesis in the harmonic interpretation of the Argentine National Anthem, the same one that in less than a month will thunder in the stadiums of Qatar, both when play the Argentine team, such as when the artist himself gives a special concert there, on November 27, for the locals who are cheering on the “albiceleste”.
After all, massive stadiums, soccer, rock and symphony orchestras are part of the same universe if Ciro appears as a great unifying factor.
Source: Ambito
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