Daniel Irigoyen

Daniel Irigoyen (born January 2, 1950 in Buenos Aires ) is a musician and socially critical lyrical poet who is one of the forefathers of the "Rock Nacional" movement. As the singer and composer of the group “Los Mentales” he was recognized as one of the best voices of the first generation of Argentinian rock.

biography

Childhood and youth

As a half-orphan, he was brought to a village in the north of the province of Buenos Aires at the age of four and handed over to the care of his paternal grandparents. At the age of 14 he returned to his father in Buenos Aires and attended secondary school at a Franciscan school.

Artistic character

With the advent of the Beatles and the first disorderly reading of various metaphysical authors who had a great influence on him, he understood early on that a single form was not enough to express despair. Attracted more to mystical than to philosophical questions, he imagined divinity as the immobile engine of the universe and the ultimate cause of all things.

As a singer-songwriter , he endeavored in his lyrics not to emphasize the arrogance and hypocrisy of the post-war mercantilist society with political protest, but to counter it with a poetic message.

Beginnings and counterculture

Together with other personalities such as Litto Nebbia, Javier Martínez, Moris, Tanguito, Pajarito Zaguri, Miguel Abuelo and Pipo Lernoud, he was part of a group of action artists in the mid-1960s that called themselves “Die Schiffwüchigen”, a group of musicians and anti - Establishment - Poets who found refuge in the bars La Perla del Once and La Cueva de Pueyrredón, as well as a little later in the Modern Bar, which was directly connected to the Instituto Di Tella, which among other things was a founding niche of the counterculture in Buenos Aires was.

At the age of 17, at the Instituto di Tella (axis of cultural activity in the 1960s), he met the artist Pablo Suarez, which gave him the opportunity to connect with some key figures from the artistic and intellectual environment of that era and one of them to make an artistic contribution as z. B. Model for sculptors and photographers, in an aesthetic project of the experimental theater, which was organized by ex-members of the work "Freedom and other intoxications" by the dramaturge Mario Trejo and in a media reading spectacle as a physical act, based on Los Cantos de Maldoror del Conde de Lautremont , as well as a work dedicated to the work and spirit of the Beatles called “Beat Beat Beatles”, initiated by Daniel Armesto, Angel Telechea and Roberto Jacoby.

First festivals

With the band "Los Mentales", which was artistically produced by Litto Nebbia for RCA Victor, Irigoyen took part in some of the a events of the rock movement of these initiative years, including the concert cycle "Beat Baires", which took place in the theater in June 1969 " Coliseo ”in Buenos Aires. He took part in the "Festival Pinap de Música Beat y Pop", the first open-air festival in Argentina, which was realized in the spring of 1969. Also in 1969, Irigoyen received the award for "best voice" at the "Primer Festival Nacional de la música Beat", which was televised from the Teatro Nacional de Buenos Aires. Irigoyen also appeared at the first major “Festival BARock”, which took place in November 1970 in the “Velódromo Municipal”.

Los Mentales

First formation (1968)

Drums: Juan Rodríguez, who later played with Sui Generis, Polifemo, Miguel Cantilo and others
Guitar: Rubén Biscione
First voice: Daniel Irigoyen
Bass: Oscar Rafael Jurado - El Oso

Second formation (1969) (1970-71):

Drums: Juan Rodríguez - Roberto "Corre" López (1971)
Guitar: Rubén Biscione
First voice and acoustic guitar: Daniel Irigoyen
Keyboards and Bass (1970): Quique Alvarado
Bass: Walter Fermin (1969)

Musical studies

At the age of 16 Irigoyen had first drum lessons with Alberto Alcalá. At the same time he was teaching himself to play the Creole guitar. During his time with Los Mentales he took private lessons from the singing teacher and pianist Martha Nebbia.

In 1972, after completing fourteen compulsory military service (ten of them as drummers in the military band), he traveled to Europe with Luis Gambolini, former drummer of La Pesada del Rock and Roll and Pappo's Blues.

In the late 1970s he took private tuition in congas and timba from the Puerto Rican musician Freddie Santiago. In the 1980s he began to study the piano.

exile

In late 1973, Irigoyen returned to Buenos Aires to continue his musical career. On July 1, 1974, Isabel Martínez de Perón announced the death of her husband, the Argentine President Juan Perón , whom she succeeded in office. From then on, cultural life in Buenos Aires became untenable for many; Opponents of the Western and Christian life system and communists were persecuted.

Far from any political context, they began to arrest people, including Irigoyen one night when he was arrested at the exit of a theater. He was detained for several weeks without any contact with the outside world, almost without sleep, and interrogated and mistreated by officers on duty. After several attempts by a relative who worked in the police force, he was released. His plans to continue working with a rhythm and blues band (Avalancha) as a singer and drummer, he could not realize. Concerned that he would be part of the growing list of those who had disappeared, he traveled to Genoa. Since 1976 he has lived in Hamburg, Germany, and has been continuously active as a musician ever since, mainly as a singer and percussionist.

The most important stations of his European career include participation as a member of jazz-rock bands, salsa groups, fusion, latin jazz, accompanying international tours (e.g. Thomas Anders) and finally carrying out his own projects.

Books

In 1979 he published the volume of poetry "Pulsaciones a la puerta del hombre". From then on he contributed to various Latin American literary publications in exile, Tierrada 1, Tierrada 2, Strip , and was a columnist in the German music magazine Rimshot Publication - the magazine for modern rhythmic and multi-malletists. In 2007 he published the book "A un paso del cielo" (Confessions of a Survivor).

Discography

Singles

1969 - RCA Victor

When a man loves only a woman (Cuando un hombre solo ama a una mujer) (Litto Nebbia)
Man in Blue Suit (Hombre de traje azul) (Bashura)

1970 - RCA Victor

The main street (La Calle Principal) (Daniel Irigoyen)
Don't care baby (No me agobies nena) (Daniel Irigoyen)

Albums - collaborations

1969	Ciro Fogliatta - music for young love	RCA Victor
1970	Los Gatos - Rock of the Lost Woman (Rock de la mujer perdida)	RCA Victor
1983	United Nation Jazz Rock & Lyric Orchestra	Hand Record Germany
1985	Felix de Luxe - The Tricks of Luck	Polydor Germany

1989	Litto Nebbia - Life Pages Vol 4	Melopea - 1994 - issued - 1999
1999	Wolf Biermann - paradise on earth	Lieder production Altona
2004	Carlos Zapata - Blue Dream	MR 2011 Germany
2011	Saint-Hill Collective - Son my Soul	Che! Records Germany

2013	La Película de Gregorio - Mr. Stan-Dard	Youkali music
2013	Daniel Messina Band - The future is today	Mulatina Records
2016	Rock Argentino en estado sinfónico - Argentine rock in the symphonic state	Grammers

Albums - bands


1981	Zorro-Instructions for another dream - Instructions for another dream	Alster Records Hamburg
1983-1984	Chilam Balam (Studio & Live)	Aliado Records Hamburg
1985-1986	Camalote - Brisas (Studio & Live)	Flipper Records Berlin
1995-1996	Irigoyen Criollo Band - The Latino Funk Society	Aliado Records Hamburg

1984-2015	Extraterritorial-The Music Of Chilam Balam	Aliada Luz Records Hamburg

Solo albums


1997	Daniel Irigoyen Taking Care of the Memory	Aliado Records
2010	Daniel Irigoyen Dangerous Dreams (Sueños Peligrosos)	Mulatina records
1984-2015	Extraterritorial-The music of Chilam Balam	Aliada Luz Records Hamburg
2016	Daniel Irigoyen - Instrospección - The music of Camalote	Aliada Luz Records
2018	Daniel Irigoyen Fusion - CIRCUNSTANCIAS TERRENALES	Aliada Luz Records

Musician :

Daniel Irigoyen: voices, keyboards, guitar, drums, congas, timbales, percussion
Omar Rodríguez Calvo: Bass
Leandro Saint Hill: tenor & soprano sax, flute
Otmaro Ruiz: piano, synthesizer
Hugo Fattoruso: Synthetizador
Litto Nebbia: guitar
Sal Giorgiani: tenor saxophone
Carlos Fischer: Trumpet
Hermann Suess: Trumpet
Daniel Allen: Trumpet
Kerry Loeschen: Trumpet
Jonas Mo: guitar
Ilan Levanon - guitar
Gustavo Gregorio: Bass
Daniel Messina: drums

Web links

personal data
SURNAME	Irigoyen, Daniel
BRIEF DESCRIPTION	Argentine musician and poet
DATE OF BIRTH	2nd January 1950
PLACE OF BIRTH	Buenos Aires