Silvina Moreno knows a good part of the recipe needed to build a song. She demonstrated it throughout her five studio albums. And with “They talk to me about you” She has done it again. In her new single, the singer draws on that inexhaustible source of first love to prepare a ring that becomes unfitted and leaves the mark of a time when the sun never shined.
“It’s like a scar that we don’t want to heal. I always go back to that scar because, in my case, it leaves me in a place that serves as a source of inspiration. It has something of romantic love and that leads me to connect with a vulnerable Silvina,” Moreno tells Ámbito in the preview of what will be her show this Friday at the Coliseum Theatre.
Journalist: “Me hablamos de vos” is one of those songs that has an impact beyond the sentimental situation you are in. In your case, you were recently married. How and why does a song like this appear at this time?
Silvina Moreno: Today I feel emotionally stable. In a place of building a couple. But the Silvina with the broken heart is always there. The two Silvinas live together in me: the intense adolescent and the more adult one. But I feel that in the face of emotional stability it is important to look for those broken places because anguish inspires and sometimes allows us to reach emotional memory. It is a song that speaks of something very real and close. A very raw emotion of love that was not.
Q: How difficult is it to create a song from a place other than where it is expressed? How much of it is a matter of craft and internal connection?
SM: Nostalgia is part of life. You can’t go back to that time you’ve been through, a time when you live in a very vulnerable way and everything feels very strong. The tender years of adolescence leave you with things. Especially when everything was so extreme. But from now on I don’t want that constant chaos. I don’t want my emotional life to be a mess.
Q: When composing, is it dangerous to resort to those places?
SM: It’s always tempting to want to go back to drama because it’s also good to suffer a little bit at least. Because it nourishes. But at the end of the day, I want peace. And to value life from a stable perspective. To connect with what’s normal.
Q: It doesn’t seem easy.
SM: It’s not. Everything can become boring or monotonous. The key is to find the artist in those places of monotony to continue creating songs that are not boring and have their own searches.
Q: You have a celebratory show ahead of you. How do you introduce a song like this, which cuts and bleeds, in the middle of a set list? Is it necessary to quickly move up the list musically or can you create an exclusive space?
SM: Eduardo Cabrera told me that the moment you take a song to a show, something has already been digested. If the song is well executed, the song does its job in the emotion. The artist doesn’t have to break down as well. You can go up or down again. Or find an order with harmony. You always have to think about how to continue. It also happens to me with “Faro,” another song. But sometimes I’m in a mode where I want to go through it.
Silvina Moreno will perform this Friday at the Teatro Coliseo, a stage that is not indifferent to her. It was there that she sang for the first time at the age of 8 as part of a school choir that accompanied the presentation of an album by Facundo Saravia and Yamila Cafrune, with folklore classics.
More than 25 years after that show, the singer will perform again. This time, as the protagonist of a night that will feature luxury guests and in which she will also take the opportunity to celebrate her 10 years in music even though, as she explains, “it’s 12 or 13 years but in 2022 I released Jungle (his latest album) and I didn’t give a damn about having reached that number.”
Q: Ten years later you started to go back through your records. What did you find?
SM: The process of putting together this show moved me a lot. I started looking at old recordings and it was like opening a vault of albums of memories that I hadn’t looked at in a long time. I started going over songs and reliving things that, with the passage of time, I now revalue.
Q: Would you change anything?
SM: I don’t regret anything. But I do feel that I was losing my energy on things that didn’t make sense. Anxiety got the better of me many times. I realize that today, looking back on Monday. I would have worked harder on that to avoid suffering so much, but when I talk to younger artists I feel that the same thing happened to all of them. The years brought more calm and more order. And hours of flight. And that gives you security and more perspective. Realizing not to repeat the same places and finding limits.
Q: Are there any songs that feel distant to you today?
SM: One of the guests who will be coming on Friday is León Gieco. It will be a great pleasure for me. I asked him for some songs that he has been singing or composing for more than 40 years and he said yes in a very loving way. Something that he may have the right to deny, as Spinetta did. It is something very valid. But no. I feel that there is always a moment of reconciliation. And that, in fact, it doesn’t cost me anything to make songs from a place of gratitude beyond the fact that we always want to show the latest so that people are more up to date with ourselves. But the truth is that we always live out of date.
Q: What does León’s presence provoke in you?
SM: The music we listen to at home leaves its mark on us. And in my dad’s case, it was León. I spent many hours with him in the summers listening to him. León has been the soundtrack of many afternoons at the beach and the sea. And like Yoda, music left an emotional bond. Having him around is crazy, but the truth is that today I am not so aware of that.
Source: Ambito
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