El Italiano

Video of El Mito:
https://www.youtube.com/@ElItaliano

El Italiano is Alejandro Giannini, a singer/composer/producer was born in Buenos Aires.
He lived in Calabria, Italy.
Released the singles El Mito, La Primavera and La Reputación. Realized the album Cross a La Mandíbula, a compendium of popular songs, grouped together in a conceptual album that merges the universes of contemporary urban pop with the imaginary of Buenos Aires, its literature and its music, without resorting to traditional tango or nostalgia.
The album is a journey taken in phases which starts with the presentation of El Mito, passes through declarations of revenge, confessions and the search for glory to end up in Redención. In between these points, we can hear El Campeón Jacinto Chiclana (where Jorge Luis Borges is quoted). “To make a hero of Borges speak in person in a minimalist and modern milonga was an idea which was really powerful and one which I wasn’t going to pass up on.”
Cross a La Mandíbula, a title taken from the famous prologue by Roberto Arlt to his novel Los Lanzallamas (The Flamethrowers), is a contemporary work where the use of samplers (such as the 8 bars of Primavera Porteña by Astor Piazzolla taken for La Primavera) is combined with synthesizers and orchestral instruments, piano and local folk guitars.
The symbiosis between the two very disparate universes achieves such a synthesis that it makes the listener forget both and take it as a whole.