Amor Amarillo


Amor Amarillo is the first solo album by Argentine rock musician Gustavo Cerati, as a side-project, while he was still active in Soda Stereo, his ex-band.
Amor Amarillo was released on November 1, 1993. The album's only official presentation was an acoustic performance for FM 100 in 1994, as Gustavo considered it an intimate album. The album features his wife Cecilia Amenábar, both as a collaborator and as the main inspiration for the songs, along with the expectation of the arrival of their first child. Cerati also covers Luis Alberto Spinetta's song "Bajan," taken from the album Artaud, a landmark album for this project. The song "Crema de estrellas," included on Soda Stereo's album Sueño Stereo, was one of the songs left out of this album.

Recording

After finishing the tour for his studio album, Dynamo, Gustavo decided to take a break from his time with Soda Stereo and move to Santiago, Chile, with his wife, to await the birth of his first child. While his son was conceiving, he began creating songs that would be used for what would become his first solo album. He recorded the first versions of the songs in a home studio he set up in his house in Providencia, which he called Ámbar Studios. The album was finished mixing and recording in Buenos Aires and released 25 days before Benito Cerati was born.

Name

According to Cecilia Amenábar, the album's name came from some yellow stones they collected together on the beaches of Los Roques, during a break from Dynamo's tour of Venezuela. For Cerati, the color of those stones represented energy, the sun; what defined this love.

Track listing

All songs written by Gustavo Cerati, except where noted.
Samples
Produced by Gustavo Cerati and Zeta Bosio.

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