Amor Amarillo
1993 studio album by Gustavo Cerati
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Amor Amarillo (Spanish for Yellow Love) is the first solo album by Argentine rock musician Gustavo Cerati, as a side-project, while he was still active in Soda Stereo, his ex-band.
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| Released | 1 November 1993 | |||
| Recorded | 1992–1993 | |||
| Genre | Alternative rock, dream pop, pop rock, neo-psychedelia | |||
| Label | RCA International | |||
| Producer | Gustavo Cerati Zeta Bosio | |||
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Amor Amarillo was released on November 1, 1993 (during a period of conflict with Soda Stereo). The album's only official presentation was an acoustic performance for FM 100 in 1994, as Gustavo considered it an intimate album. The album features his wife Cecilia Amenábar, both as a collaborator and as the main inspiration for the songs, along with the expectation of the arrival of their first child (except for "Rombos," which he composed during the time of Colores Santos). Cerati also covers Luis Alberto Spinetta's song "Bajan," taken from the album Artaud, a landmark album for this project. The song "Crema de estrellas," included on Soda Stereo's album Sueño Stereo, was one of the songs left out of this album.
Recording
After finishing the tour for his studio album, Dynamo, Gustavo decided to take a break from his time with Soda Stereo and move to Santiago, Chile, with his wife, to await the birth of his first child. While his son was conceiving, he began creating songs that would be used for what would become his first solo album. He recorded the first versions of the songs in a home studio he set up in his house in Providencia, which he called Ámbar Studios. The album was finished mixing and recording in Buenos Aires and released 25 days before Benito Cerati was born.
Name
According to Cecilia Amenábar, the album's name came from some yellow stones they collected together on the beaches of Los Roques, during a break from Dynamo's tour of Venezuela. For Cerati, the color of those stones represented energy, the sun; what defined this love.
Track listing
All songs written by Gustavo Cerati, except where noted.
| No. | Title | Writer(s) | Note(s) | Length |
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| 1. | "Amor amarillo" (Yellow Love) | 5:39 | ||
| 2. | "Lisa" | 4:28 | ||
| 3. | "Te llevo para que me lleves" (I Take You So You Can Take Me) | Cerati sings a duet with Cecilia Amenábar. | 3:44 | |
| 4. | "Pulsar" (Pulsate) | 4:57 | ||
| 5. | "Cabeza de Medusa" (Medusa Head) | 5:11 | ||
| 6. | "Avenida alcorta" (Alcorta Avenue) | 4:46 | ||
| 7. | "Bajan" ([They] Go Down) | Luis Alberto Spinetta | This track covers a song originally released as part of the album Artaud by Pescado Rabioso, written by Spinetta. | 4:12 |
| 8. | "Rombos" (Diamonds) | 4:25 | ||
| 9. | "Ahora es nunca" (Now is Never) | Cerati, Cecilia Amenábar | 4:45 | |
| 10. | "A Merced" (At Mercy) | 6:28 | ||
| 11. | "Torteval" (Released exclusively on the first and third issues of the album.) | 6:05 | ||
| Total length: | 54:40 | |||
Samples
- "Pulsar" contains samples from "Microphone Poet" by Rob'n'Raz ft. Papa Dee and "Sirius" by The Alan Parsons Project.
- "Rombos" contains a sample from "Texture" by Catherine Wheel.
- "Torteval" contains samples from "Impeach the President" by The Honeydrippers and "You Got the Love" by Rufus ft. Chaka Khan.
Videoclips
- «Te llevo para que me lleves» (1993)
- «Pulsar» (1993)
- «Lisa» (1994)
- «Amor amarillo» (2023)
- «Rombos» (2023)
- «Av. Alcorta» (2023)
Personnel
- Gustavo Cerati - lead vocals, guitars, backing vocals, fretless bass guitar, MPC60, keyboards, wind instrument, effects, percussion and producer.
- Zeta Bosio - keyboards, percussion, bass on "Amor Amarillo" and producer.
- Cecilia Amenábar - vocals, backing vocals, bass on "A Merced".
- Tweety González - programming assistance and audio consultant.[2]
Produced by Gustavo Cerati and Zeta Bosio.
