Gustavo Santaolalla: Amores Perros (guitar themes) + TAB

Guitar tab and blog: Directed by Alejandro González Iñárritu, Amores Perros (2001) is an ambitious story of lives that collide in a Mexico City car crash. Inventively structured as overlapping and intersecting narratives. Gustavo Santaolalla initially said no to this project, because he was too busy producing records. In addition this was Alejandro González Iñárritu’s first feature film. However, after declining the project, Santaolalla woke up in the middle of the night thinking, ’what if this guy is a genius’? The rest is history. After creating the score for Amores Perros, Alejandro González Iñárritu introduced Gustavo Santaolalla to director Walter Salles — who was beginning work on The Motorcycle Diaries. It’s possible that Gustavo Santaolalla’s entire two-time Academy Award winning film score career can be traced back to that very mom