Track review: Libre Y Tonto – La Madre Tirana + Ivenno
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I am back to this article -and to Cuenca as my article on Le Telefono- after having some time away from these words but not from the song. Included in my Wrapped of this year, I took its presence in the list as a reminder to finish this article. This track has also been my introduction to both La Madre and Ivenno. How do we start with a new artist? I can only speak from my experience as a listener: lists, recommendations from people -sometimes I would write down the name of an artist or song to show that I will check it out later to the person recommending it, this would depend on the impact of this person on me-, most likely I will leave it there so it fades away in my phone.
Here’s to La Madre and Ivenno.
Libre y tonto, -fourth track of their last album, La Madre Tirana IV (2024)- starts with the dreamy voice of Ivenno joined by an acoustic guitar that fades away to give space to the clean stream of José Orellana’s electric guitar. The track continues in an exchange of answers and reproach to a lover. There’s an old sound in the song, like an infrastructure once risen with the idea of showing progress but now abandoned only to host squatters and nature. Keeping this image, I think of this building in the last years of its glory, like an ominous announcement. The singing voice tells regrets for not being with the loved one, along with descriptions of what would happen once the time of the passion is over.
Reading some of the comments in the live video version of Libre y Tonto, fans wish for an eternal Madre or express their undeniable love to a tyrannic Madre. Their live version of the track is the living proof of these comments: fans sing every lyric coming out of José Tarquino Orellana (human form of La Madre) and Parcoloma’s golden child Ivan Cañar (Ivenno). A further article would be needed to try to further understand the universe of La Madre.
Ivenno’s has also collaborated with La Madre with the direction -along with Jessica Pucha- of the videoclip of Dinamita, Sol y Armagedón (Dadi Cool) and the recently released Lejos de tu Corazón.
The Libre y Tonto’s videoclip stars Ivenno and La Madre in a funfair and what seems like a multi-storey car park. Their vintage looking clothes matching the retro grainy look of the video. There’s a constant feeling of playfulness along the video, effortlessly trying to be serious (pale signifier) and have fun at the same time.
