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After leaving Spanish-Argentinean band Los Rodríguez, beginning a successful solo career with albums Alta Suciedad and Honestidad Brutal, and then feeling the ravages of rock & roll stereotypes (sex and drugs) while releasing free demos and rarities through his website and the only-for-the-die-hard-fan El Salmón, Andrés Calamaro seemed to rise musically from the ashes, in part thanks to the contact with a flamenco-jazz fusion wave that was taking place in Madrid back in 2002, releasing El Cantante and El Regreso (the latter's name perhaps suggesting more than just a title for an album).