“The expert remains deserted and the moon that has posed on the ceilings … of Pompeii,” Sings Chizzo Napoli in one of the most descriptive etchings than rock It has given a sector of Buenos Aires ignored even by the Buenos Aires: the south. In that triangle demarcated by the Riachuelo, General Paz and Avenida Perito Moreno occurred numerous milestones of transcendence. Among them, of course, the formation of Rengaband that with the passage of the decades was propelled to the Olympus of Popular Culture Argenta but without ever forgetting its origins.
As a testimony of those initiatory years are, to begin, the songs themselves, with which you can assemble certain Renga cartography From mentions and signs such as the one that throws “The Twist of the Pibe” when, in the description of the protagonist, it is mentioned that “in the cold of that winter he had a pending appointment there, by the Lugano neighborhood.” Regarding “I’m going to dance to ‘The ship of oblivion'”, Chizzo related a long time ago in the Rock&Pop That inspiration came aboard line 46, a collective that was taken from Avellaneda Park to finish the secondary school in a nightclub of Barracas. Crossing Perito Moreno Avenue at the height of Villa 1.11.14 found something that hit him and motivated him to filigrate a poetry that describes in a very graphic way what is still observed today in that neighborhood.
“The expert Moreno at that time was not how it is now, the entire emergency neighborhood in front of the court of San Lorenzo I was not as populated as today, there was a lot of free space, “Nápoli said.” And, suddenly, on those winter trips I remember seeing there a house of matte black sheet and in orange fluoride said ‘The ship of oblivion’. It was shocking to see that collective, as if a spacecraft had landed there. And I say ‘What is that?’ So on Friday, coming from school, under 46 there and I arrive to see what it was. And it was a dance bowl. I seemed toad from another well, but I was watching the move, which is what recounts the song a bit. ”Perhaps to underline the simplicity and precariousness that the story tells, Chizzo recorded the song for the first album of Renga Just with an acoustic guitar (to which a few peeled lines were then added, without effects) in a holder of the trial room.
The band of the band with the southern Porteño seems to go back to Larrazábal Clubwhich has its courts in Lugano but its registered office in the street that gives it a few meters from Emilio Castro, border between Liniers and Mataderos. There Renga He offered his first formal recital as a band in 1989 and today that deed is remembered with a plaque and a mural on the facade on the 829 of that avenue that at that height becomes a beautiful boulevard.
While the social headquarters of the Larrazábal It is technically in Liniers, for many it is a symbolic part of Mataderos, a neighborhood with which Renga It is intimately connected from its beginnings and until today. This is demonstrated by an interesting amount of walls that make that suburb marked by the pulse of the refrigerators, the stadium of New Chicago and the traditionalist fair also a true “walled” city.
In the corner of San Pedro and Cosquín, for example, there is a mural with the colors of Chicagothe shield of the Barrio de Mataderos and two rengueras quotes: “It gives meaning to my life” (of “the wind that everything pushes”) and “the heart has reasons that the reason itself will never understand”, a phrase of the French scientist Blaise Pascal that chizzo re -adapted in the letter of “the end is where I left.” While a replica of the lid of Dodging puddles and the four original musicians (that is, the trio plus the guitarist madness Dilello) looks at the corner of Tandil and Araujo where the awning formed, a recognized NGO of the neighborhood.
However, the thick line of urban art commemorating Renga It occurred in 2019, when the band turned 30 and the painter Javier Quintana carried out with other artists a series of murals that still last in emblematic places in the neighborhood. There are four and each one is starring a musician other than the band.
Thus, Chizzo appears on a wall of Lisandro de la Torre and Juan B. Alberdi, precisely in one of the entries to the Barrio of Social Housing Just Suárez, so called in tribute to the first great idol of the neighborhood: the lightweight boxer nickname New Chicago. The Churches tank, meanwhile, is in Timothy Gordillo almost Eugenio Garzón, just around the traditionalist fair, and surrounded by an indigenous, Santiago Maldonado, a mother of Plaza de Mayo and workers of Zanón, which makes sense: the work extends over one of the walls of the cooperative Flexible Mataderos containersfactory recovered and managed by its workers after the emptying of their previous owners.
For its part, the Tete stars in Suárez and Cañada de Gómez the facade of the monoblock 1 of the Perales, a distinguished housing complex of the neighborhood, next to the iconic face of Che Guevara (“The man of the star”, such says the song). While Cerquita from there appears the saxophonist Manu Varela next to Bronze cockroaches (The wind section he directs) in Carhué E Yrupe, between the club Cárdenas and the tennis courts of New Chicago Behind his football stadium.
This last mural is also accompanied by the devil and death, who according to the album’s song Torn They looked sideways and laughed under their low until they were friends with “on the corner of my neighborhood.” The question that many rengueros are asked: which of all corners of the South Buenos Aires better that ochava in which according to Chizzo bends the wind and cross the shortcuts?
For some it can be Garzón and Homero, already in Parque Avellaneda, where Nápoli saw and guitar a group of kids among which Gaby Goncalves, future manager of Renga. For others, meanwhile, it will be that of Araujo and Remedios, full slaughterhouses, where in the early hours of January 1, 1989, three boys from the neighborhood cut the street to play for a while before the neighbors without a name or presentation. And where today a true lion wears roaring on a wall. And, if you are attentive and look up, you will find a signal on the poster shop on the top of a post.
Source: www.laizquierdadiario.com
