Newsgroup: it.arti.musica.rock.progressive
Titolo: Pescado Rabioso (per Peppe)

After ALMENDRA broke up, Luis Alberto Spinetta recorded his mythical
first album and left for Europe. Back in buenos Aires he formed a trio
to perform stronger acid-related music with Osvaldo Frascino on bass
and Juan Carlos Amaya on drums.
The dreamy psychedelic cover drawn by Jorge Visnovesky and originally
released with a poster insert was the preamble of DESATORMENTANDONOS,
their first superb album. Side A opens with "Blues de Cris", a
powerful hard-blues lead by Spinetta's guitar, "El jardinero" is a
long psycho song full of effects and distorted guitar. On thr other
end "Dulce 3 nocturno" sung by Spinetta and Bocon is a beautiful
relaxing time.
Side B begins with "Algo flota en la laguna", another distorted guitar
psyco song and ends with the enigmatic "Serpiente" featuring Carlos
Cutaia on Hammond.
Bacon left and was replaced by David Lebon (ex Pappo's Blues and Color
Humano) on bass. In late 72/early 73 PR went to studios to cut their
masterpiece: PESCADO 2, a 2-LP set considered one of the top 5 best
south-american rock albums ever recorded and certainly the highest
point in Spinetta's creativity geniuos.
Pescado 2 was conceived as two separate LPs: one called Pescado and
the other called 2. The two covers were joined upside down and the
original version included a 48-page booklet with the lyrics, technical
data, photos, texts and drawings, as well as a poem by Rimbaud and a
quote from his "Illuminations". This is not casual since explains the
origin of Spinetta's surrealistic lyrics of that time.
The 18 tracks are numbered and the numbers are part of the song titles
as well.
Side A opens with "Panadero ensonado" a guttural duo between Luis and
David and is followed by the great saga "Iniciado del alba / Poseido
del alba" lead by the Hammond organ with Leslie. "Como el viento voy a
ver" is a wonderful easy blues number. The effects of "Viajero
naciendo" and the first Lebon composition to be recorded "Manana o
pasado" close the side.
Side B features a r'n'r' number "Nena boba", "Madre selva", another
superb moment of the album with climatic guitar and organ and the
enigmatic "Peteribi".
Side C begins with 16 seconds of "Peteribi" to give continuity to the
whole concept. "Senoruta" is a group improvised composition.
£Credulidad" is an acoustic song with Spinetta reminding his early
years. "Hola, pequeno ser!" is an anti drug hard rock with excellent
guitar and organ duels. "Mi espiritu se fue" is a nice ballad written
by Bocon.
Side D opens with "Sombra de la noche negra" a band rock composed by
Amaya with furious guitars and organs. The calm returns with "La
cereza del zar", a folk-psycho ballad and "Corto" about the nuclear
holocaust. The album closes with an absolutely Spinetta masterpiece
"Crisalida", a 9 minute opus with rhythm changes and orchestral
arrangements.
Unfortunately by mid 73 PR split due to musical differences between
Spinetta and Lebon but Spinetta recorded a wonderful solo album
credited to PR: ARTAUD.
With the help of his brother Carlos Gustavo on drums and his former
Almendra mates Emilio del Guercio on bass and Rodolfo Garcia on drums
on some tracks, Artaud (obviuosly dedicated to the French poet and
actor) is yet another masterpiece.
The cover deserved a chapter on its own. Instead of being square the
original cover had an odd oversized shape that made it impossible to
rack in conventional LP bins.
With a fifferent musical style than Pescado 2, Artaud opens with the
wonderful "Todas las hojas son del viento". "Cementerio club" is a
psyco blues. The strange "Por", the moody "Surpercheria" and the
beautiful "La sed verdadera" come next.
Side B opens with the long and climatic "Cantata de puentes amarillos"
and is followed by the elecrtic "Bajan", the psyco "A Starosta, el
idiota" (dedicato to Vince??- ndr) and the terrific "Las habladurias
del mundo". A difficult LP to describe, due to the nature of the music
and the lyrics.
Despite its brief existence PR is still today the most influential
group of argentine progressive rock musicians.
Late in 73 Spinetta formed INVISIBLE.
But that's another story...
MARCELO CAMERLO - THE MAGIC LAND 
(A guide to South American progressive and psychedelic rock)
--
Mauro Moroni
http://www.mellowrecords.com
mor...@pangea.it
in...@mellowrecords.com

 first album and left for Europe.
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puoi tradurre in napoletano? :-)))
scherzi a parte, grazie per le informazioni, anche se alcuni titoli dei
brani citati non corrispondono a quelli indicati su cd. Ad esempio, l'ultimo
brano dell'lp, che nel tuo post è stato indicato come "Crisalida" di 9', su
cd è "Aguas claras de olimpos" e dura 8'10''

cd è "Aguas claras de olimpos" e dura 8'10''
Non posseggo l'orrido Cd.
Sarebbe interessante approfondire l'argomento osservando magari quali
e quanto grandi sono state le influenze del prog italico sul rock
sudamericano dei settanta ovvero inquadrare le band cardini argentine
(la famosa triade Almendra- Manal-Los Gatos) in relazioni a quelle più
specificatamente prog che sono venute dopo (l'altra triade Crucis-
Espiritu-Maquina de Hacier Pajaros) o persino cercare di illustrare i
personaggi più noti (Nebbia-Spinetta-Santaolalla) e esaminare i
capolavori venuti dal nulla (Mia-Bubu-Alas-Redd-Magma) ma in un NG
dove ancora si discute degli Yes o di quanto siano fondamentali per il
prog i Muse meglio ritornare alle cure omeopatiche per ridurre la
ciccia e lasciarvi alle vostre cosmogonie onde evitare di incazzarmi a
35° all'ombra.
Ossequi.
P.S. I suddetti gruppi hanno venduto una media di un milione di copie
cadauno, nel caso i redattori di certe rivistucole avessero da
cianciare sul "solito gruppo che nel 73 ha venduto 4 copie".
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 capolavori venuti dal nulla (Mia-Bubu-Alas-Redd-Magma)
Bubu e Alas capolavori, senza dubbio. Mia non h o ancora capito se si
trovano o no su cd. Di redd e magma vorrei saperne di pių. grazie
napra

 Di redd e magma vorrei saperne di più. grazie
Magma formed in Paranà.
Their first album "Canto para una consagration" is a masterpiece of
the symphonic rock.
After several line-up changes a second album "La tranformacion" hit
the stores in 85. Not successful as the first it's still a very good
album.
A collection of both records is available under the title KRONICAS.
At the end of the seventies REDD got in touch with the people from MIA
and with their help they recorded their fist album in 79, "Tristes
noticias del imperio". The album was a very good symphonic rock effort
highly influenced by early INVISIBLE with a couple of songs resembling
King Crimson second period.
Later on REDD cut a second album "Cuentos del subsuelo" but due to
economic reasons the LP were never released. Still a good effort.
Both albums are available on CD with bonus tracks.
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> > Di redd e magma vorrei saperne di piů. grazie
curiositŕ: il bassista dei redd abita a Milano, vive come session man.

curiosità: il bassista dei redd abita a Milano, vive come session man.
Vero, mi ha pure venduto rarità sudamericane.
P.S. Mi hanno portato il tuo Cd, sentito una volta, decisamente bello.
More details will follow.
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