In 1974, at the age of six, he fled with his family from Augusto Pinochet's military dictatorship to Hamburg. The protest music of the "Nueva Cancion Chilena," which continued to shape Rod's childhood in Germany, became the soundtrack of an entire generation that took to the streets for human rights and against the dictatorship in Chile. Today - half a lifetime later - Rod returns to his homeland, but above all to his musical roots. His goal is to record an album with the Chilean protest singers of the sixties and seventies and their musical heirs of today.
Rodrigo Gonzalez, bassist of the German punk rock band DIE ÄRZTE, travels to Chile, on the trail of the music of his childhood.
In 1974, at the age of six, he fled with his family from Augusto Pinochet's military dictatorship to Hamburg. The protest music of the "Nueva Cancion Chilena," which continued to shape Rod's childhood in Germany, became the soundtrack of an entire generation that took to the streets for human rights and against the dictatorship in Chile.
Today - half a lifetime later - Rod returns to his homeland, but above all to his musical roots. His goal is to record an album with the Chilean protest singers of the sixties and seventies and their musical heirs of today.