"Corazón abierto las 24 horas - Cancionero para música popular 2000-2005" ::: "Heart open 24 hours a day - Songbook 2000-2005 for popular music" ::: Author: Roberto Imperatore ::: Editor: Editorial de los Cuatro Vientos, Buenos Aires, 2007.
"Corazón abierto..." gathers lyrics, a few of them in English, that were created for a variety of popular music styles. The author confesses that, at the same time, the songbook "slightly aspires to look like a poem book". In support of a definition of poetry that were free from intellectual prejudices, he proposes to make the border line between song lyrics and poetry as diffuse as possible. Music has been attached to a number of the songs in the book; however, the scores are not included.
The songbook is divided into two sections. The first one is dedicated to rock and blues. It includes the pop-rock song "Moda retró", the blues "Baby this is life", "Manjares secretos" and "Blues de la calle vacía", the rock'n'rolls "Mamita en el pub", "Sissí Todatoda", "Rock de los barrios duros" and "El indio", the heavy rock theme "Corré la losa", the blues-jazz song "Doménica matina blues", and the country-latin fussion "El bálsamo". The music of these themes were composed by either Julián Carschenboim, Oscar Garrido, Santiago Mangudo or Luis Scarnati. Besides, there are in this section many song lyrics that have no music. The most oustanding among them are probably "Kursk", a touchy progressive heavy metal song, and two rocks dedicated to the victims of the 2004 "massacre of Cromañon", when a fire killed almost 200 youngsters at a rock festival in Buenos Aires.
The second section is dedicated to Argentine tango and folklore, as well as to melodic songs. The music of the Uruguayan candombes "Serás tú" and "Montevideo negra", the bolero "Qué cosas" and the fussion-malambo "La huella" were composed by some of the above mentioned musicians. That of the Argentine zambas "El naufragio" and "Zambita de un beso más", the chamamé "El descaminado", the "Chacarera enamorada" and the carnavalito "Tierrita y rosita" were created by the folklore musician Franco Nazareno Delmonte. Tango lyrics probably contribute the highest poetic moments of this book, but no music has yet been composed for them.
Each one of the two parts is followed by a glossary, in which the meaning of argot words and colloquial expressions can be found. For Spanish speaking readers, the glossaries are a contribution to a broad cross-culture understanding of the book. The diversity of musical styles enriches the songbook too. The aesthetics that are characteristic of each style translate into the lyrics by means of the subject, the lexicon, the more or less rigorous grammar, the sintaxis, the colloquial expressions and the poetic images.
The author was born in 1952. He writes since his early teens. Nevertheless, at the moment of publishing this songbook he considered himself "a home author" who had made little effort to have his poetry and prose disseminated beyond meetings of friends and other small circles. By end 1999, however, he started to work with musicians to compose rocks, blues and Argentine folklore songs. Publishing "Corazón abierto..." was for him a vehicle to offer his lyrics to readers, and also to musicians in general in the hope that there will be those who will create the music for the songs that still do not have one.
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