Thinking again about Charly Garcia

I´ve been very lucky on this trip because I´ve been finding some really great jams on the daily basis in formats that don´t usually function with the hostel I´m staying at. But luckily tonight, in Mendoza, Argentina, I found a place with a tape player. I thought I´d only be able to listen to tapes in my mom´s Buick, driving to get pastries at Cohen´s Bakery, but they had one here.

I had a long week in Buenos Aires. It´s very easy to have big nights there- starting your dinner at midnight, wrapping up around two, and then dancing till dawn with no probelms, which happened 7/8 nights. But on my last day, deciding whether to stay for the night or not, I walked around and found a cassette of Charly Garcia´s at a flea market (the "Modern Clicks" or "Clix Moderno" album), that sold choripan and G-N-R shirts.

I posted an item about him earlier and was not expecting to write about him again, buy the tape was great- really stellar 80s jams with a darker influence that Argentinians really love. Perfect mix of hostel resources and things I´ve been grazing on to make my night complete.

Before I get on the uploading of the tape, take a look at some more insight on Charly Garcia. The tape drove me to Youtube.gov:



an interview:



I really wasn´t wild about the Che song from below, but Argentinian enthusiasm for this man made me but the tape (see the comments on this vid). I hate to attach a western comparison to him, but he has the pop sensibilities of Elvis Costello and the lunacy of Charles Manson, save the bloodshed, all wrapped nearly 30 years of recording.

Here´s the track off the 1983 album "Modern Clix" that got me feelin him again:



another I discovered aroun: