The legendary figure of Sandro once again casts his mythical shadow with the launch of “I have a story like this”, material released today from found and restored recordings, featuring two unreleased songs and never-before-heard versions of nine other songs.

The Sony Music disc completes what the 19 August of last year, day on which Roberto Sánchez would have fulfilled 75 years, began to anticipate with the edition of the piece “Do not go yet”, one of the two absolute novelties of the album.

The other work of his authorship that joins the extensive and popular repertoire of El Gitano is “That which is done in pairs”, where he recovers the rock pulse of his beginnings with Los de Fuego in the company of a triplet made up of Charly García on keyboards, Pedro Aznar on bass and guitar and Fernando Samalea on drums.

As an additional value of the piece, Sandro's reunion with the former Serú Girán with whom he shared “Break everything”, for the album “Tango 4” of 1991.

Another gem of the volume is a song that had not been released in Argentina: “Your, what do you know about love”, born of the romantic lyricism of Sandro, which was recorded under the title of “She is much more of a woman” in the US edition of the album “I come to take my place” (1984).

As a rarity of the singular repertoire gathered there is also a version of “Hard life” that its author, deceased on 4 of January of 2010 to the 64 years, sing in italian.

The new songbook gathered where Sandro shows off the impact of his magnetism as a composer and performer bears his exclusive signature on seven other themes and can be grouped thematically.

There are two pieces in which he takes on the role of an abandoned lover: “My hundredth tear” (It is the hundredth tear / I will leave it to you as a faithful testimony / of the one who knew how to love you / and today can tell you: 'Go well to hell'”) and the attractive “Silver companion” (“my audience is for two, but now we are three / me, your absence and a man / I don't know who he is”).

Another pair where he boasts of his character as an ordinary boy: “I have a story like this” with its tango reminiscence (“And we stumbled through life / like a Corsican who comes the wrong way / and we disguise the truth with other people's clothes / and perhaps the same disguise we both use”) Y “Returning home” (“If you want, I'll go or if I don't go in / the cold didn't go away and it's still raining / or I'll have to tell you another way / 'Can I come in?’ Can't you see that I'm coming back”).

In that list the explicit “I will make you a woman”, an allegation that not only sounds the opposite from current subjectivities and where it affirms things like “I'm going to make you my best creation / Well, you brought so much inspiration to me / That I have to model to perfection / Your child body, with so much passion / I will make you a woman, leave me and you will see / I will teach you and you will learn”.

Another nod to his past in the sands of rock can be seen in “There is a lot of agitation” (de Dave Williams) and the payroll is completed with “You notice” (that he composed with his representative Oscar Anderle) and which premiered in April 1970 at the Madison Square Garden recital in New York that boasts at least two other milestones: the first from a Latin American there and the one who started live and direct satellite transmissions, arriving to 250 million people in 16 countries.

A report from the record company based on the journalistic investigation of Graciela Guiñazú, realize that the 11 songs of “I have a story like this” were entirely recorded by the idol: nine of them on stereo chromo cassettes in portastudio and two on open tape, all without leaving his famous Banfield mansion.

The cassettes were in his library - in the home studio that he later gave to Rubén Aguilera., his producer and arranger for a decade- and the tapes, in “Excalibur” -the professional recording room that he set up in the guest house in the back of his home, then transformed into “The Piano Bar”.

With that material, the plate that now sees the light was born two years ago, when Jon Aguilera (son of Rubén and artistic godson of Sandro) started with Nelson Pombal (producer of Palito Ortega and Charly García, among others) the classification, restoration and digitization of those home recordings that Sandro had entrusted to his father.

The historical and musical document completed its cycle when Olga Garaventa de Sánchez, artist's widow, authorized to develop this rescue process.

The gallery of presences that contribute to the climate of the suma plate 36 artists, among them 13 of its musicians: Bernardo Baraj (his companion in the days of the Black Combo), Ruben Aguilera, Americo Belloto, Ricardo Lew, Jorge Padin, Miguel Tallarita, Jose Luis Colzani, Oscar D’Auría, Mario Parmisano, Carlos Buono, Víctor Skorupski, Enrique “Left handed” Roizner and Jorge “Bear” Bertinetti (member of Sandro's band since 1982 and died on 19 last july). (TELAM)