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Headline:Soda Stereo's 'stereo Dream': How a Bold Album redefined Latin Rock
Deck: Thirty years later, soda stereo's final studio album continues to inspire artists with its innovative sound and profound impact.
BUENOS AIRES - In 1995, the Argentine rock trio Soda Stereo, after a three-year break, recorded Stereo dream (Stereo dream), which became their seventh and final album. Though unknown at the time, this woudl be their last. Following Dynamo, their most experimental work, Stereo dream explored choice sounds with British influences, incorporating electronic elements and strings.
The 1990s marked a shift from the new wave of the '80s that initially brought Soda Stereo fame. As alternative rock gained traction in the U.S. and Europe, its popularity also grew in Latin America. Soda stereo embraced this shift, creating their own unique take on the genre. After a decade of relentless work, releasing albums and touring Latin America, the band experimented, crafting a progressive rock album that continues to be celebrated by fans and artists alike, three decades later.
"Latin American rock DNA is partly based on a tremendous sense of inferiority because it always copied everything that was happening in England and the United States," Ernesto Lechner, a music journalist from argentina" data-tag="argentina">Argentina who has lived in the U.S. since the 1990s, tells Billboard. "Soda Stereo changed that."
Soda Stereo transformed latin-rock" data-tag="latin-rock">Latin rock with their innovative sounds and exploration of diverse musical genres. This style became the hallmark of lead singer Gustavo Cerati's artistry, which he refined in his first solo album, Puff (1999), after Soda Stereo's breakup in 1997. Stereo dream, released on June 25, 1995, became the band's magnum opus.
"Stereo dream for me is, without a doubt, without discussion, Soda's best album," Lechner adds. "It's a glorious record. A psychedelic rock album - electronic rock with moments of ambient music, a very refined thing.It was like a full circle."
"Is like the final masterpiece, very refined and perfect," Valeria Agis, editor of argentine newspaper The nation tells billboard of the set, which in 2012 was ranked fourth by Rolling Stone in its blank">10 greatest Latin rock albums of all time.
Stereo dream's journey starts with the alternative rock of "ella Usó Mi cabeza Como un Revólver," a melancholy, complex track featuring a string arrangement of viola, violin, and cello. "Disco Eterno" and "Zoom," two neo-psychedelic pop-rock songs, also became classics in the band's repertoire.
Further into the album, The beatles' influence is apparent in the Britpop tracks "Paseando Por Roma" and "Ojo de la Tormenta." The album concludes with a shift into instrumental tracks blending psychedelic and electronic sounds.
For soda's bassist Zeta Bosio, the album was vital for his recovery after the death of his 2-year-old son Tobías in a car accident a year prior. "That was the album that brought me back to life a little, back to reality," he tells Billboard.It also reunited the band, allowing them to "become an organism where we could feel what the other was going to do."
Drummer Charly Alberti felt it too. The album "presents us already at a really high musical level, the three of us," he adds. "Things would come together really organically."
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Within two weeks of its release, Stereo dream achieved platinum status, becoming a hit in Argentina and throughout Latin America. However, two years later, the band concluded their 15-year journey with the El Último Concierto (The Last Concert) farewell tour, culminating in a final show at the Estadio Monumental in Buenos Aires.This performance not only gave us the live album and DVD of the same name but also Cerati's iconic phrase "Gracias totales" (which literally means "total thanks").
Cerati then focused on his solo work, releasing Puff in 1999, which he considered his official solo debut, although he had released two albums during Soda Stereo's hiatus before Stereo dream. Puff, symbolizes a "new breath of creativity," as Cerati noted the songs came to him blank">very easily.
In 2007, soda Stereo reunited for the Me Verás Volver Tour (You Will See Me Return), touring Latin America and some U.S. states. The tour began and ended at River plate, Buenos Aires' largest stadium, with six sold-out nights - five more than in 1997.
Soda Stereo had plans for more shows, including one in Spain. According to Bosio, the band was open to further collaborations. "The music was still intact. It was like we were entering a new stage of maturity and starting to understand things in a different way," he says."[But] being Soda Stereo always came with a lot of pressure. Especially for Gustavo, who was the main songwriter."
In 2010, Cerati suffered a stroke after a concert in Caracas, Venezuela, while promoting his last solo album, Natural force. He remained in a coma until his death on Sept.4, 2014, at the age of 55.
But Stereo dream laid the groundwork for his later work. Stereo dream wasn't the end; it marked the start of a new sound that continues to resonate 30 years later.
"One of our goals for this album was to take a subtractive approach," said Cerati, as quoted in the book cerati in the first person(Cerati in First Person) by Maitena Aboitiz. "It was like saying: 'Let's pull back a bit' - not to keep a low profile, but as we didn't need to repeat the same thing over and over."
Cerati had the freedom to explore his creativity as a solo artist. With Soda, the exploration that began with Dynamo and that the band perfected with Stereo dream reached its peak. The result was one of their most significant works,influencing artists across Latin America and the world for years to come.
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