Reflections on Musical Collaboration and Loss
Nov 3, 2026 2:01
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Nov 3, 2026 2:01
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What happened to you with Ricardo's loss?
And I felt like a part of me had gone.
Really?
These days, sometimes I
write music and think,
“I need this guy to tell me
exactly what this song needs to say.”
And I say that with all
the emotion in the world. That, no, I won't find again.
My motto is: I keep doing my thing, you know, I sing.
I still haven't decided to bring in a singer.
It's damn hard to find a singer,
it's damn hard to find someone who
writes. So, uh, I
am Claudio Del Tono Marciello.
I carry on, it's my thing, it's my life.
But yeah, sometimes I say, “Man, damn, this song,
it's like it's missing that lyricist.” Having a singer
is different from working the way
I did with Ricardo as the singer,
because Ri—Ricardo was a storyteller and also a
singer.
Well, he had both. He was a songwriter,
he was a singer,
he performed what he
sang very well, too.
That’s what I mean. The performance part was that
he was better at
seeing the guy as a singer. And I never thought of him as a
singer, I
thought of him as a vocalist.
That’s why the melody references
were
on the CD. But then you
had the other one,
which didn’t have
melodies.
This is so you can tell where the chorus, solo, and sung part go.
I knew the guy would
arrange that his own way,
or maybe stick to it because
he liked it. So,
it’s different when you have a guy who
you know that
guy has a singer’s skills, has, let’s say, some training,
right? We’re untrained, we were untrained.
As for me playing,
I’m full of bad habits when I play.
Bad habits,
Uh, vices, tricks, repetitions.
And, but the harmonic minor scale,
I don't know,
man, to me the scale sounds like this:
It sounds Spanish to me, you know?
No, E minor. I don't know, man.
No, no, I don't have that kind of training.
So, he was also a
rude guy, because he'd say, “Look,
I'm going to sing, and I don't give a
damn.” You get me?
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¿Qué te pasó a vos con la pérdida de Ricardo? Y sentí una parte de mí que se fue. ¿En serio? Hoy en día a veces yo hago músicas que digo: “Me
falta este tipo para decirle exactamente lo que tiene que decir esta canción”. Y lo digo con toda la emoción del mundo. Eso no, no lo voy a encontrar más. Mi lema es: sigo yo con la mía, eh, canto.
Todavía no decidí poner un cantante. Es jodido encontrar un cantante, es jodido encontrar un tipo que escriba. Entonces, eh, yo soy Claudio Del Tono
Marciello. Sigo, es la mía, es mi vida. Pero sí, a veces digo: “Che, puta, esta canción, loco, es como que te falta esa pluma”. Tener un cantante es diferente a trabajar como trabajaba con Ricardo como cantante,
porque Ri-Ricardo era un narrador y a la vez un cantor. Bueno, tenía las dos. Era un autor, era un cantor, interpretaba muy bien lo que
cantaba también. A eso voy. La parte de la interpretación era que ganaba más a, a ver al tipo como cantante. Y el tipo yo nunca lo tomé como un cantante, lo
tomé como un cantor. Por eso la referencia de las melodías estaban en, en el CD. Pero después tenías el
otro que no estaba con melodías. Esto para que vos te orientes dónde va el estribillo, el solo y la parte cantada. Yo sabía que el tipo iba a acomodar eso
a su manera o quizás respetarlo porque le gustaba. Entonces, es diferente cuando vos tenés un tipo que vos sabés que ese tipo tiene recursos de cantante, tiene, digamos, una educación,
¿no? Nosotros somos maleducados, éramos maleducados. Yo para tocar, porque estoy lleno de vicios para tocar. Vicios, eh, vicios, yeites, reiteraciones.
Y, pero la escala de menor armónica, no sé, loco, a mí la escala me suena así: Me suena española, ¿viste? No, E menor. No sé, loco.
No, no, no tengo esa escuela yo. Entonces, él también era un maleducado, porque el tipo decía: “Mirá, yo voy a cantar yo y me chupa un huevo”. ¿Me entendés?
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