Genre
Rock and pop rock. The ballads dominate the album, but there is also rock and roll, reggae, and soul. "Alta Suciedad" is in essence a one-man recording: Calamaro played virtually all instruments himself .guitar, piano, electric piano, organ, synthesizer, bass, drums, mellotron, sitar, clavinet, carillon, and more .producing a dense, intimate sound rooted in the rock and pop tradition he had absorbed across two decades of Argentine and Spanish music.
Release
Released in 1997 by GASA , distributed by Warner Music Argentina and DRO East West. It was the first solo album Calamaro released after the dissolution of Los Rodríguez, and his best-selling record. The cover design is widely read as a tribute to Bob Dylan, an artist Calamaro has frequently and explicitly cited as a central influence.
Production
Produced by Joe Blaney, who also served as recording engineer and mixing engineer. Assistant engineers were Joe Sansone, Leo Herrera, and Sal Normando; mastering by Ted Jensen. Calamaro handled all lead and backing vocals and played the vast majority of instruments, with no other musicians credited on the main album sessions.
Reception
Pumped by major hits like "Flaca," "Loco," and "Me Arde," the album sold 300,000 copies in Argentina alone, making it his most commercially successful release. It established Calamaro definitively alongside Charly García, Fito Páez, and Luis Alberto Spinetta at the top of the Argentine rock scene. Appears on the Los 600 Discos de Latinoamérica list.
Andrés Calamaro
Andrés Calamaro (born August 22, 1961, Buenos Aires) is an Argentine musician, composer, and Latin Grammy winner, considered one of the greatest and most influential rock artists singing in Spanish. He began his professional career at seventeen, joined "Los Abuelos de la Nada" in 1982, and released his first solo album, "Hotel Calamaro", in 1984. In 1991 he relocated to Spain and co-founded "Los Rodríguez" alongside Ariel Rot and Julián Infante, whose album "Sin Documentos" (1993) brought them pan-Hispanic fame by fusing rock, flamenco, and Latin American rhythms. After the band's dissolution he entered his most prolific solo period, following "Alta Suciedad" with the marathon five-disc, 103-song El Salmón (2000). His subsequent albums include "Honestidad Brutal" (1999), "El Cantante" (2004), and the award-winning live recording "El Regreso" (2005), which won the Gardel Award for Best Rock Album. He has sold over 1.3 million records across his career.
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