Genre
Argentine pop rock. The album showcases Páez at his creative peak, blending melodic sensibility with lush orchestral arrangements, programming, and rock instrumentation, across a song-cycle exploring love, loss, and renewal in the aftermath of personal tragedy.
Release
Released on June 1, 1992, by WEA/Warner Music Argentina. It was Páez's eighth studio album, marking the commercial peak of his career.
Production
Composed, arranged, and produced by Fito Páez, who also handled piano, voice, guitar, and keyboards, with mixing and pre-production by Páez and Tweety González, who contributed programming and organ. Musicians included Ulises Butrón on guitar, Guillermo Vadalá on bass, Daniel Colombres on drums, and Osvaldo Fattoruso on percussion. String and brass arrangements and musical direction were by Carlos Villavicencio, performed by the London Session Orchestra. Executive production was by Fernando Moya, Carlos Narea, and Ale Avalis.
Reception
El amor después del amor became the best-selling album in the history of Argentine rock, with sales exceeding 1.1 million copies and a Diamond certification from CAPIF - the first rock album by an Argentine artist to surpass one million domestic units. AllMusic awarded it a perfect five stars. In 2007, Rolling Stone Argentina ranked it 13th among the 100 Greatest Albums of National Rock, and in 2023 Rolling Stone placed it 22nd on its list of the 50 Best Latin American Rock Albums.
Fito Páez
Rodolfo "Fito" Páez (born March 13, 1963, Rosario, Santa Fe, Argentina) is an Argentine rock musician, songwriter, producer, and filmmaker, dubbed the "Troubadour of Argentine Rock" and regarded as one of the most important figures in Latin American rock. A former member of the Trova Rosarina collective, he began performing solo in pubs in the late 1970s before releasing his debut album, "Del 63", in 1984. His acclaimed early albums, including Tercer Mundo (1990), explored Latin American social themes, but "El amor después del amor" brought him unprecedented commercial reach, with sold-out shows for 40,000 fans. He has won multiple Latin Grammy Awards, including Best Rock Solo Vocal Album for "El mundo cabe en una canción" (2007), and has collaborated extensively with Charly García, Luis Alberto Spinetta, Joaquín Sabina, and Pablo Milanés. His life inspired the 2023 biopic and television series "El amor después del amor".
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