(Psych/Progressive rock) Luis Alberto Spinetta - Spinettalandia Y Sus Amigos - 1971, FLAC (image + .cue + scans), lossless

The most important artist involved in the music discussed in this book, Luis Alberto Spinetta was born on January 23rd, 1950 in Buenos Aires. He was founder and leader of extremely important groups like Almendra, Pescado Rabioso and Invisible.
When Almendra split he participated on the Billy Bond y La Pesada's debut. Then he went to studios to cut a solo LP for contractual reasons. His friends Pappo, Miguel Abuelo, Pomo, Victor Kesselman and Elizabeth Viener joined him for this effort.
In just 30 studio hours he recorded an excellent mind blowing experimental album, full of wide creativity and improvisation. Spinetta was credited as composer of all tracks, but it is known that "Castillos de Piedra" and the hard psycho "Era de tontos" were actually written by Pappo (Pappo later recorded his own version of "Castillos de Piedra" for the Pappo's Blues Volumen 2 album). Both songs were a sort of preview of the first Pescado Rabioso LP. Other songs like "Ni cuenta te das", "Dame, dame pan" or "Vamos al bosque" are more hippie psycho-folk oriented.
Spinetta's will was to call the album Spinettalandia y sus amigos (Spinettaland and his friends), but RCA had a "better" idea: they called the album Almendra (!) and designed a cover featuring a photo of all former members of the late group, omitting details about the musicians involved in the recording. All this was done behind Spinetta's back (he was visiting Europe at this time). Eventually, Emilio del Guercio and Rodolfo Garcia (from Almendra) sued the company and won. The LP was reissued with a different title and photo. Later on it was re-released as La busqueda de la estrella with a totally different photo (Luis Alberto's face). (It had yet another re-reissue with this same title, but with a cover photo of Spinetta standing)...
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Luis Alberto Spinetta / Spinettalandia Y Sus Amigos

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