Contrasting with the backwards and authoritarian government of General Juan Carlos Onganía, Argentina and specially Buenos Aires were undergoing a cultural blossoming, based on new art expressions; the new generation, the sons of the middle class, was immersed in an effervescence that would not reappear in Argentina until 1983. Spinetta was part and later an exponent of that blossoming and rebellious youth that would express itself both through the arms and the arts. Spinetta devoted fully to the latter path, although he briefly became involved with left-wing political movements.
It was 1969 and his band, Almendra, recorded their first album. The band started recording and playing intensely and it became successful almost overnight. Almendra composed its own songs and the lyrics were in Spanish (something radically new). The subtlety and beauty of their sound would be one of the milestones (maybe the first) of Argentine rock. After two albums that enjoyed radio diffusion and deserved fame, the band split. Spinetta composed and recorded a new solo album, but an inadequate environment (he would later say that the mood of Argentine rock and rockers of those times were too "heavy" and negative for him) and the vast changes that success effected on his life made him leave the country.
After a lengthy stay in Europe, he returned to Argentina and formed a new band: Pescado Rabioso. It was destined to be as mythical as Almendra. With a far more powerful sound and expressing the tension in the streets of an increasingly violent Argentina, Pescado recorded its first album in 1972. It was both a continuation of the creative stream of Spinetta and a drastic change in the style of his music and lyrics. The band recorded a second album; although a third one carried its name, Pescado was by then dissolved; Artaud, recorded in 1973 and mostly a solo album by Spinetta, was a major breakthrough. Partly based on the writings of Antonin Artaud, Spinetta exorcised many of the demons of his past in this album. This process would open the door to a new era in his music.
In 1974 he formed a new band, Invisible. With his new band he recorded three albums; Invisible I, Durazno Sangrando (together with Artaud, hailed as his best album ever), and El Jardín De Los Presentes. With Invisible, he left the powerful and rough sound of Pescado; the new tunes were more harmonic, soft and mellow, yet his work remained essential and revolutionary. Following this line, he embarked on a solo project, A 18' del Sol, after dissolving Invisible in 1976-77. By then, ten years later after starting his career, his style had became a delicate amalgam of old and new; the old pop and (proto) heavy rock had merged with various elements of jazz and bossa nova. That unique flavour would become his style during the next half decade.
After recording and editing a failed album in the United States in 1979 (the only album that Spinetta lamented ever doing), with lyrics in English and destined to the US market, Spinetta returns to Argentina and starts a prolific era: he would record two albums with a short-lived Almendra Revival (one with original songs and the other live), and embark on a new project: Spinetta Jade.
Spinetta Jade would prove to be a successful and innovative band; Spinetta was joined by some of the greatest Argentinan musicians of those and all times to help him build the new sound he was building since Invisible. The product: a blend of jazz and rock that was unseen in Argentina and that escaped the boom of symphonic rock that reached both the world and Argentina in the early 1980s. These four albums, Alma de Diamante (1980), Los Niños que Escriben en el Cielo (1981), Bajo Belgrano (a homage to the neighbourhood where he grew up, 1983) and the unforgettable Madre en Años Luz (1984), represent a defined style as well as the footprints of Spinetta´s evolution. Towards the last two albums, the sound became a little bit more "pop", and embedded with electronic elements (samplers and synthesisers with "artificial" textures). Something worth remarking: the overpowering influence and fame of Spinetta in the Argentinian rock world was only equalled by that of Charly García. Many fans and critics shared the feeling that the two musicians represented antagonistic styles and values. To show otherwise, Spinetta and Charly (with their respective bands at the moment, Jade and Serú Giran) joined efforts and gave what was probably the most important show in the history of Argentine Rock.
Dissolving Spinetta Jade in 1984, Spinetta shortly engaged in an album to be made together with Charly; yet, this would-be mythical work was abandoned. Of this interrupted work, two songs remained: "Rezo por Vos" and "Total Interferencia".
By 1982, Spinetta had restarted his solo projects, and from then on would never leave them. Kamikaze (1982) puts together a number of previously unreleased songs (one gem is a very old song he composed in 1965 called "Barro Tal Vez"). In Mondo Di Cromo (1983) Spinetta prefigures the style of his solo projects during the second half of the 1980s. His new production, from 1986 to 1993, would include four solo albums (Privé (1986), Téster de Violencia (1988), Don Lucero (1989), Pelusón of Milk (1991)), a joint album with Fito Páez, another giant of Rock Nacional (Sólo la la la (1986)), and the soundtrack of the movie "Fuego Gris" (named after the film, 1993). It is hard to describe this collection of wide albums with a single adjective. The style, the sound, the themes that Spinetta picks and uses with the dexterity of a veteran musician are broad enough to encompass rock, pop, some tango, jazz and bossa; they all sound 1980s like; they all sound Argentinian and reflect the difficult years of the new democracy (1983 onwards) and the contemporary thought about Argentina that is being made. Hope and failure, they are covered with the Porteño melancholy maybe more than Spinetta´s previous work.
After a long silence, produced mainly by Spinetta´s conflicts with the recording companies, he finally opens a new period in his music with his new band: Spinetta y los Socios del Desierto. Three years (1997-1999) and four albums later, Spinetta had created yet another legend in Argentinian rock. Two studio albums, the double Socios del Desierto (1997) and Los Ojos (1999) would bring along a new sound, much more dry and 1990s sounding. The band made an MTV Unplugged, Estrelicia (1998), that because of its softness and acoustic nature, wildly contrasts with their live album, San Cristóforo (1998). As Spinetta said at the beginning of the first concert, "Fans de lo acústico, abstenerse" ("Fans of acoustic music, refrain"). The speed and roughness of the sound recalls Pescado´s sound. Also, in 1998, Spinetta chose the featured songs and artwork of a Greatest Hits album called Elija y Gane, edited the same year.
The band dissolved quietly towards the end of 1999. Spinetta started a solo era that spawns until the present. Silver Sorgo (2001), Obras en Vivo (2002), a live album, and Para Los Árboles (2003) combine maturity with boldness. The changing and mostly tragic landscape of current Argentina powerfully affects the background of these works. In them, Spinetta has showed that his creative flame is anywhere but near of being extinguished.
On 23 December 2011 he published on the Twitter account of his son Dante that he was facing lung cancer. He died on February 8, 2012 in his native Argentina, at the age of 62. His ashes were scattered in the waters of the Río de la Plata, according to his last wish, next to the Memory Park built to remember the desaparecidos of the National Reorganization Process.
Dale Luz Al Instante
Luis Alberto Spinetta Lyrics
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todos los días así,
toda mi vida...
Estoy iluminado con tu sencillez,
todos los días amor,
toda la vida...
Dale luz al instante...
tal vez no te arrepentirás...
y que el cielo le responda al mar...
Dale luz al instante...
y es que nunca nunca te arrepentirás...
Estoy entusiasmado con tu río de amor,
es una fuerza que une mi destino
¿cómo haré para encantarte con la canción,
que es un anhelo que dura,
lo que una brisa?
Solo dale luz al instante,
nunca te arrepentirás...
Dale luz al instante...
y que el cielo le responda al mar...
dale luz, luz, luz...
y es que nunca te arrepentirás,
dale luz al instante
tarde o temprano el tiempo se acabará...
al volver de su noche oscura,
que ya pasó...
y tú al mirarte al espejo...
tal vez querrás,
que se detenga el mundo,
solo para tí..
Y eso no puede ser,
no puede ser,
mi vida...
Solo dale luz al instante...
nunca te arrepentirás,
dale luz al instante...
y que el cielo le responda al mar,
dale luz, luz, luz...
nunca te arrepentirás...
Dale luz al instante...
sin sospecharlo el viento te arrebatará...
esa hoja escrita,
con tu mejor canción...
que ya no recordarás,
y que creías que haría,
una revolución,
sin amor...
y es que nunca funcionó...
¡Porque no puede ser,
no puede ser,
mi vida... !
The lyrics of Luis Alberto Spinetta's "Dale Luz Al Instante" express the enthusiasm and elation the singer feels about the love of his life. He is taken by his beloved's simplicity and the river of love that unites their destinies. The song is an ode to the power of love and a plea to his lover to bring light into their lives that will last a lifetime. He implores her to "give light at once" to make their love glow forever. Perhaps the decision to illuminate their love will not be something she will regret. The singer is aware of the passing of time and the importance of seizing the moment. He wants to enchant his lover with the song of his heart, knowing it will be a breeze he cannot hold on to. He is aware that life is fleeting, and once the moment passes, it is gone forever. The singer urges his beloved to bring light to their union and not to wait, for time and life will not wait for them. He warns her that inaction and hesitation will result in regret, and that the winds of life will erase the written song that they thought would start a revolution.
Line by Line Meaning
Estoy entusiasmado con tu corazón, todos los días así, toda mi vida...
I am thrilled with your heart every day of my life.
Estoy iluminado con tu sencillez, todos los días amor, toda la vida...
Your simplicity enlightens me, my love, every day of my life.
Dale luz al instante... tal vez no te arrepentirás...
Give light right now... maybe you won't regret it.
Dale luz al instante... y que el cielo le responda al mar...
Give light right now... and let the sky respond to the sea.
Dale luz al instante... y es que nunca nunca te arrepentirás...
Give light right now... and you will never, never regret it.
Estoy entusiasmado con tu río de amor, es una fuerza que une mi destino ¿cómo haré para encantarte con la canción, que es un anhelo que dura, lo que una brisa?
I am thrilled with your river of love, it's a force that unites my destiny. How will I enchant you with a song that only lasts as long as a breeze?
Solo dale luz al instante, nunca te arrepentirás...
Just give light right now, you will never regret it.
Dale luz al instante... y que el cielo le responda al mar...dale luz, luz, luz...y es que nunca te arrepentirás, dale luz al instante tarde o temprano el tiempo se acabará...al volver de su noche oscura, que ya pasó...
Give light right now... and let the sky respond to the sea. Give light, light, light... and you will never regret it. Give light right now, eventually time will run out... after coming back from its dark night, which has already passed...
y tú al mirarte al espejo...tal vez querrás, que se detenga el mundo, solo para tí..Y eso no puede ser, no puede ser, mi vida...
And when you look at yourself in the mirror... maybe you will want the world to stop just for you... and that cannot be, cannot be, my love...
Solo dale luz al instante... nunca te arrepentirás, dale luz al instante... y que el cielo le responda al mar, dale luz, luz, luz... nunca te arrepentirás...
Just give light right now... you will never regret it. Give light right now... and let the sky respond to the sea... give light, light, light... you will never regret it...
Dale luz al instante... sin sospecharlo el viento te arrebatará... esa hoja escrita, con tu mejor canción... que ya no recordarás, y que creías que haría, una revolución, sin amor... y es que nunca funcionó... ¡Porque no puede ser, no puede ser, mi vida... !
Give light right now... without suspecting it, the wind will take away that paper with your best song... that you won't remember anymore, and that you believed would start a revolution without love... and it never worked... Because it cannot be, cannot be, my love...!
Contributed by Ian S. Suggest a correction in the comments below.
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Dale luz al instante
Estoy entusiasmado con tu corazón,
todos los días así,
toda mi vida...
Estoy iluminado con tu sencillez,
todos los días amor,
toda la vida...
Dale luz al instante...
tal vez no te arrepentirás...
Dale luz al instante...
y que el cielo le responda al mar...
Dale luz al instante...
y es que nunca nunca te arrepentirás...
Estoy entusiasmado con tu río de amor,
es una fuerza que une mi destino
¿cómo haré para encantarte con la canción,
que es un anhelo que dura,
lo que una brisa?
Solo dale luz al instante,
nunca te arrepentirás...
Dale luz al instante...
y que el cielo le responda al mar...
dale luz, luz, luz...
y es que nunca te arrepentirás,
dale luz al instante
tarde o temprano el tiempo se acabará...
al volver de su noche oscura,
que ya pasó...
y tú al mirarte al espejo...
tal vez querrás,
que se detenga el mundo,
solo para tí..
Y eso no puede ser,
no puede ser,
mi vida...
Solo dale luz al instante...
nunca te arrepentirás,
dale luz al instante...
y que el cielo le responda al mar,
dale luz, luz, luz...
nunca te arrepentirás...
Dale luz al instante...
sin sospecharlo el viento te arrebatará...
esa hoja escrita,
con tu mejor canción...
que ya no recordarás,
y que creías que haría,
una revolución,
sin amor...
y es que nunca funcionó...
¡Porque no puede ser,
no puede ser,
mi vida... !
Stefania Milagro
Amo despertar y darle ▶️ a este tema! ❤️✨ ¿Cómo haré para encantarte con la canción,
Que es un anhelo que dura,
Lo que una brisa? 🥰🥰🥰🥰🥰
Lucas Martinez
Hola te suscribis a mi canal si queres, de onda?? tengo covers de el Faco...
Trece diez
Gracias flaco por escribir lo que jamás supe que quería decir
Sofía Dominguez
Tan fresca y tan significativa Simplemente el flaco.
Maria L. L.
Desde República Dominicana, mi corazón está con vos, mi flaco.
Silvia Salgado
Si,si es su melodía,su letra ,m encanta este tema!!!14/10/19
Rosana
Qué hermoso ser! y que humildad! Solía decir que solo era un adorno de esta vida, que los músicos, los artistas solo adornaban esta vida sublime
JAIR
GRACIAS en donde estés. Me ayudas con tus melodías a sobrellevar esta vida cruel.
Paula Palamara
La vida es mucho mejor escuchandote flaco!!!!!
Dani Dani
Jamás igualado.Maestrísimo de maestros :D