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The album opens with the story of a legend that says that man is born knowing all the things of the world but an angel gives him a kiss on the mouth and makes him forget them: "From that moment on, man will have to start living to learn to remember". Man, civilizations, societies - how can it be that a whole country goes through the same thing over and over again? Sometimes reality sounds like a hammer blow in a mirror. Sometimes art makes those recurrences more visible. Songs that hit like a slap in the face when they appear and return with the same forcefulness almost thirty years later. This is the case of Acorralar a la bestia, Actitud María Marta's debut album released in 1996, which these days resounds loud and clear because Malena D'Alessio and Alicia "Alika" Dal Monte, original MCs of the band, are coming together to pay tribute to it. The date is next Friday, December 20, at Groove.
"Actitud" emerged in full neoliberal culture, in times of pardon, impunity laws and a certain social apathy. We could say that these are comparable times, although perhaps the worst values of capitalist culture such as individualism, social insensitivity and alienation are more exacerbated today than yesterday", reflects Malena D'Alessio. And it is true: going through the album in 2024 is, to say the least, alarming, because history repeats itself. Always as tragedy. In this sense, Malena -daughter of José Luis D'Alessio, kidnapped and disappeared in 1977- says that she is concerned about the similarities of this present with the past "with a government that is not only denialist,...