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Argentine Groups - D - E - F
This superb guitar player was of course member of the extraordinary La Cofradía de la Flor Solar and La Pesada.
As almost all of La Pesada’s members did, he recorded an
excellent solo album in 1973 featuring Claudio Gabis on rhythm guitar, Alejandro
Medina on bass, Jorge Pinchevsky on violin, Isa Portugheis on drums and Billy
Bond on the mixing console, production and vocals. The fold out glossy cover included
a beautiful drawing by Kubero.
The first track, "Todo es todo", is an intense cut sung by Medina with the brilliant guitar reminiscent of the sound of La Cofradía de la Flor Solar. Next comes the piano and sound effects of "Spirtrepus" and "Polvo he de sacudir" with a variety of guitar sounds. "Una manera de llegar" is sung as a duo with Miguel Cantilo.
Díaz and Cantilo had written the songs together for the
excellent LP Miguel
Cantilo y Grupo Sur.(however, Kubero did not play on this
album; the equally superb Willy Pedemonte took his place). The first song
of side B, "Algo está por suceder", is one of those compositions and was
premiered on Kubero’s album (also sung by Cantilo). (This great song
was re-recorded and included on Cantilo’s album as well). The album concludes
with the suave "Creciendo en espiral" with Kubero on acoustic guitar and
vocals and the instrumental "Colgado de las nubes" with a great job by Pinchevsky
on violin.
A highly recommended and highly hard to get album!
Afterwards, Kubero went to live to Ibiza. In the 80s he returned to Argentina and joined the highly successfully reformed Los Abuelos de la Nada. Old hippies had changed...
Unfortunately Kubero’s solo LP was never reissued on any format so far. We cannot wait!
- DANIEL "TOPO" DALOISIO (g)
- JORGE OLIVÉ (b)
- BERNARDO RUBAJA (k)
- ISA PORTUGHEIS (d)
This outfit was from La Plata (50Km South of Buenos Aires) and in some way related to its neighbour La Cofradía de la Flor Solar.
They only released a blues oriented single sung in English. The b-side was co-written by guitarist Skay Beilinson, who later played on La Cofradía’s LP and currently enjoys fame with the rock and roll cult combo Patricio Rey y los Redonditos de Ricota. Isa Portugheis later joined La Pesada and played in several albums. Topo Daloisio would play on Pajarito Zaguri’s solo album Pájaro y la murga del rock & roll. Bernardo Rubaja would reach fame in the 80s as a new age musician in the USA!
The single is extremely rare (I only know one person who owns a copy!).
- JULIO SAEZ (lg,v)
- HUGO RACCA (g,v)
- MIGUEL ANGEL PERALTA (b)
- GUSTAVO MARADEI (d)
This Led Zeppelin-style outfit made their debut asthe opening act for Vox Dei in September 1971. They played live a great deal but only released two singles (among them the good "Eleonora en el campo").
Horacio Darias replaced drummer Gustavo Maradei, and the group split when Peralta (no relation with Miguel Abuelo) left.
Sáez, Darias and Racca (now on bass) and singer Saúl Blanch went to form Plus, a hard rock group that enjoyed much more fame than what Escarcha actually deserved.
Both singles are rare.
- OSVALDO FAVROT (lg,v) AB
- FERNANDO BERGE (v.g) AB
- CLAUDIO MARTÍNEZ (b) AB
- CARLOS GOLER (d) AB
- GUSTAVO FEDEL (k) A
- CIRO FOGLIATTA (k) B
Bergé and Goler met when they were drafted, and once free they formed a rock quartet with Favrot and bass player Daniel Bernareggi, soon to be replaced by Martínez. After the brief inclusion of multi-player David Lebón (on... synthesizer!) they released an excellent blues-rock single with great guitar work (the a-side was also included on the compilation album Rock para mis amigos Vol. 3 [Talent I-458]).
Now with a steady keyboard player (Fedel) and highly influenced by Yes they recorded their debut album, Crisálida, a long opus foreshadowed by a single.
Crisálida was a very good symphonic album that demonstrates great instrumental skill. The cover featured a magnificent drawing by Juan Orestes Gatti who at that time made the design of almost all of the albums released by Microfón and Talent labels (owned by his friend and powerful producer Jorge Alvarez).
The album was very well acclaimed and the live presentations featured typical 70s symphonic choreography and costumes, something new on these shores. Espíritu also participated in the new version of La Biblia (Talent SE-515) together with members of La Pesada and the rest of the artists of the Talent label.
Fedel left the group and was replaced by Ciro Fogliatta (ex-Los Gatos and Sacramento) with whom they recorded a not so satisfying second album which also followed a single.
After the live shows to premiere this second LP (Libre y Natural) Espíritu split. However, with some line-up changes, they returned in the 80s and released two more albums: Espíritu (Tonodisc DLF 8059) and En Movimiento (RCA TLP 50100). Avoid them!
All albums are available on CD. A progressive Brazilian label released the third and fourth album (as well as the disappointing 1982 comeback live performance) on CD.
- QUIQUE ALVARADO (b,pia)
- RUBÉN BISCIONE (g)
- PABLO HERNANDEZ (d)
- CHARLIE ETCHEVERRY (v)
- JORGE LUIS CANAVES (trump)
- PABLO KUSSELMAN (sax)
Billy Bond and producer Jorge Alvarez had the idea to form a short lived novelty outfit for the purpose of having fun.
Fe’s only LP was a non-convincing rock and blues pastiche with brassy sound. To make matters worse, Alvarez wrote most of the satirical/ironic lyrics himself. Such is the case of "La Tanda" ("Commercial Break") which describes a long advertisement of home appliances. A version of Manal’s classic "No pibe" is also included.
Pedro Pujó (co-founder of Mandioca with Alvarez) wrote the liner notes. Alvarado and Biscione were both ex-Los Mentales.
The album is hard to get and there are no reissues, The Uruguayan release featured a full colour cover (instead of the original black and white).
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