Charly Garcia’s Iconic Songs
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- 24 Apr 2023
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One day in 1983, Charly Garcia and his friend and fellow Argentine musician Pedro Aznar knocked on the door of Electric Lady in New York’s Greenwich Village. They were determined to make Garcia’s next album in Jimi Hendrix’s hallowed recording studio. The result, Clics Modernos, was a milestone album in Argentina both for its new wave sound (deemed the first Argentine release to feature a drum machine) and for boldly capturing the spirit of a country that was blinking its way from the darkness of a murderous dictatorship into the light of democracy to the beat of a thriving music scene.
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A young engineer named Joe Blaney, who a couple of years earlier had worked on the Clash’s Combat Rock, came on board for the recording of Clics Modernos. Blaney did not know much about Latin American politics – or South American rockers – at the time, but in interviews, he has since recalled the emotion that permeated the studio during the recording of the synth-pop piano ballad “Los Dinosaurios,” when Argentine friends of the band were moved to tears as Garcia sang the lyrics:
