27/10/2024 – EL HUERTO ACÚSTICO, ARICO, TENERIFE

Singer, composer and lyricist, Lucio Arce came to tango to bring to it his shrewd view of reality with sharp humour. Proof of this humour are songs like El sordo García y el mudo Pascual, which emphasises the ‘redness’ of the shiny plaques with which a well-known newspaper announces its most shocking reports on television; or Pisé caca, in which a wonderful story of romantic love loses all its magic when the protagonist steps on one of those waste products that the little streets of Buenos Aires have that ‘¿Qué sé yo, viste?…And of course, the one that could become an anthem among his followers, Boludo, a name with which the song mocks a little of so much victimizing tango mysticism.

Capable of great sensitivity, Lucio Arce names the making of songs as a form of healing. A kind of recognition of the most intimate part of himself that, resisting being trapped in an inner emptiness, emerges in each song. And so the song El invisible makes present a subject who says no to the ignominy with which this era tries to dehumanise.