When contemporary Argentine popular music still lamented the news of the death of Flavio Etcheto, last Thursday, 2022 hit hard again in its premiere with the death of Martín Carrizo. It happened at dawn on Tuesday, and it was his sister Cecilia, better known for the alter ego that she positioned in her days as a child cheerleader, Caramelito, which made his departure known through social networks: “Tell me, please, where do I go?” implored the current panelist of the television program In the afternoon. The drummer turned 50 on January 3, of which the last five were dedicated to fighting the amyotrophic lateral sclerosis (ALS) that he suffered.
Despite the fact that it is a complex degenerative neuromuscular disease (it was the same one that had Stephen Hawking), Carrizo always knew how to put on his best face and showed an enviable attitude. And is that one of its main characteristics was its good humor, as well as their willingness to face the most complex projects. However, those who did not know him personally will remember him from now on as one of the best drummers that Argentine rock had. In fact, this condition appeared in his life just when he was enjoying a wonderful artistic moment as a member of Los Fundamentalistas del Aire Acondicionado, the band that accompanies the Indio Solari.
Like his former groupmates, the former leader of the Ricotta rounds He used his Twitter account to say goodbye to the musician. “Don Martín passed through this dimension with a spirit determined to always be young,” wrote the Argentine rock icon. “From there he helped me laugh more than my madness allowed me. That is why I will remember it with the words that I release in each toast. Funny and brave!”. Although Solari and Carrizo had known each other since the eighties, when they met in a complex of rehearsal rooms in the Chacarita neighborhood, the professional relationship between the two emerged in 2007. At that time, Indio cited him as recording engineer for the album rex pig, where he also played the drums of some songs.
After inviting him to play at the closing of his 2008 tour in La Plata, where he sat behind the drums of the last five songs of two shows, Indio Solari formally incorporated him into his band. Not only did he take on the drums, but he also asked him to revert to being his recording engineer. Showing off both roles, Carrizo participated in the album The perfume of the tempest (2010). He did the same on the fourth album of Solari’s career outside of Los Redondos, Little birds, brave little boys (2013). After being part of the massive shows that offered the singer with LAir Conditioning Fundamentalists in 2010, seven years later the musician he had to leave the group because of his illness. The announcement was made by the frontman himself.
In August 2019, in an interview he gave to El Uncover Radio, the Indian Solari, about the Bell that the drummer’s family carried out to raise six million pesos For his medical treatment, he had deferences to his former musician: “He is like a son of mine or a younger brother, because I have known him from a very young age. He has been the best drummer there was here, in Argentina, far away ”. Before joining the Fundamentalistas del Aire Acondicionado, Martín Carrizo reconciled in 2003 with Andrés Giménez, leader of A.N.I.M.A.L., and returned to the band that launched him to stardom. From that reunion came the album Combative, produced by both, where the trio continues to flirt with nü metal.
After the departure of ANIMAL’s first drummer, Aníbal Alo, Carrizo saw his opportunity to join the band. “I had him train Martín with weights on his feet, on his arms and he got a assassin”Boasted the frontman. “There we started rehearsing with Martín, and it was like the sea opened up to us.” At that time, the second album of the power trio appeared, and the first recorded by its brand new member: End of a sick world (1994), who was seconded The new way of man (nineteen ninety six). After that album, the relationship between Giménez and Carrizo collapsed: “They never finished being happy with me, and I was playing better and better for ANIMAL”, evoked the drummer. “They are things that were added. That triggered my departure ”.
He hardly found out what happened, Walter Garden he summoned him to be the drummer for his solo project Walter Giardino Temple. With the vioro of White rat he only got to play live. After a while, Gustavo Cerati He kicked the board when he summoned Martín Carrizo to be part of the recordings of the album with which he began to put chips to his solo career: Puff (1999). That decision threw down the prejudices that exist regarding metal musicians, while the musician was the one indicated for that precise drum beat that dialogued with the digital paradigm. Both in the recording process and in the seventy shows they performed to present it, he had as a partner Flavio Etcheto.
“At the moment when I was disassociating myself from ANIMAL, I lift my head to see what was happening around me, and I find out that Soda Stereo rehearsing for his last tour. Right then my dream of playing with Gustavo began ”, Carrizo reminded this newspaper in 2019.“ Those who really knew me knew that my roots were one hundred percent pop. It was like going back to that, but powered by ANIMAL At one point I ran into him in a studio, and I expressed my desire to play with him ”. Once in the combo, the musician became a great support. “He was overwhelmed, and said: ‘I need someone to take care of the machines’, and there, from behind my drums, I raised my hand. Within ten minutes, NASA had armed “.
A couple of years later, Carrizo formed your own project: Pr3ssion, with which he released a self-titled full-length album in 2001 (it is posted on Spotify and YouTube). Most of the songs were recorded in live shows, except for a few that were made in the studio. Among them stands out “Part of the rules”, which has as a guest Gustavo Cerati. From the transition from the nineties to two thousand, the musician achieved unfold between the execution of his instrument, the musical production and the more technical task of the recording studio. This caused that their services were required by artists as diverse and dissimilar as Abel Pintos, Zero Kill, Cabezones and Leandro Fresco.
Although the artist was very active on Instagram, each post brought his followers and friends closer to his reality. Like when he had to sell his three batteries to pay for the treatment. He also used the image of an elephant standing over him as a metaphor to describe how he felt and the pain that accompanied it. However, the most dramatic was the day he hugged the 50 years, where he stated that he never believed that he would still be alive after Christmas. Beyond adversity. Martín Carrizo wished his healing at all times: “I still want my recovery”said who stopped his treatment earlier this year because of how expensive it was. In his last feed, which dates from January 3, he stated: “2022 gives me a lot of hope.”
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