Mariano Cabrera, an Argentine who lives in New York, got the November 6th a sign is placed indicating the place where Charly García he took the famous cover photo of his albummodern clicks.
That photograph, taken by his friend the photographer Uberto Sagramososhows a wall in Manhattan with graffiti by a street artist named Richard Hambleton.
The exact place is the corner of Walker Street & Cortlandt Alley, very close to Chinatown, where Sagramoso lived.
The corner of the cover of Charly García’s album, Clics modernos, as it looked in the early ’80s.
Procedures
The tribute was managed together with the Argentine Consulate in New York, which months ago requested official authorization.
As Mariano Cabrera clarified to the newspaper Página/12, “The municipality does not allow it to be painted because it is private property and to avoid vandalism, but that day a sign will be placed indicating that from that moment on it is “Charly García Corner”. .
It should be noted that the original wall and the graffiti were painted years ago. The neighborhood became more luxurious and currently there is a hotel on that corner, whose restaurant chef is the Argentine Fernando Trocca.
a classic record
modern clicks It was the second studio album by Charly García, published on November 5, 1983 by the company SG Discos.
It had the participation of Pedro Aznar, plus sessionists like famed guitarist Larry Carlton, drummer Casey Scheverrell, and saxophonist Doug Norwine.
Charly García with Joe Blaney in the recording of “Modern Clicks”.
The recording technician was a young Joe Blaney, then highly regarded for his work with Keith Richards and Prince. The studio was the legendary Electric Lady, founded by Jimi Hendrix in the ’60s.
The song list includes hits like They won’t let me out (I’m green), they keep hitting us down, I’m not a stranger y The dinosaurs.
The innovative sound of the album changed the aesthetics of Argentine rockwith the use of electronic drums and a pop air that was initially highly criticized by the press and the public, until it was revalued a few months later.
The original cover of “Clics modernos”, by Charly García.
“I didn’t travel to make a record. But in that place, everything inspired. I liked the energy and I wanted to compose and get together with some musicians to do something”, Charly said in an interview.
The original idea for the cover photo was to spray paint the phrase “Nuevos ragos” on a wall, because that’s what the album was going to be called. But as soon as García and Sagramoso saw the black silhouette painted by Hamilton, they decided that the Argentine should sit on the floor to take a portrait.
Anecdotally, it later turned out that next to the silhouette someone had written the words “Modern Clix”, so Charly immediately changed the title of the album and named it modern clicks.
MFB
