Prog from Spain / Mezquita

[MYSTERIOUS TRAVELLER]

not sure... I have the LP

[TCC]

Great recomendaciones Folks!.

Another good site is:
The Spanish Progressive Rock Page
http://www.dlsi.ua.es/~inesta/Prog/SPE/index.html ... covering various genres-.

[ashratom]

Pretty intereting those extracts . Available on cd?

Camino del Águila? Oh yea, it came out on Musea about 20 years ago or so. I have it as well as the orig LP. Not sure of availability though.

[ashratom]

Great recomendaciones Folks!.

Another good site is:
The Spanish Progressive Rock Page
http://www.dlsi.ua.es/~inesta/Prog/SPE/index.html ... covering various genres-.

Agreed, this site has been around a long time, and is a very good source.

[MYSTERIOUS TRAVELLER]

Camino del Águila? Oh yea, it came out on Musea about 20 years ago or so. I have it as well as the orig LP. Not sure of availability though.

I think he was commenting on the Califas Del Rock bits I posted Tom

[ashratom]

I think he was commenting on the Califas Del Rock bits I posted Tom

Ah! I see (didn't hear the clip obviously....). OK, this one did come out on CD from Serdisco also about 20 years ago. Guessing to be pretty tough to find these days.

[TheH]

Anyone heard the Mezquita live Album from 2011?

[interbellum]

Various: Música Laietana - Zeleste (compilation disk with many "ancient" Spanish progbands)

This is the playlist from this double album, which includes work of Iceberg:

1 No juguis amb set miralls (Xavier Batllés) - ORQUESTRA MIRASOL 7
2 Violentos los Correa (Xavier P.Pérez) - SECTA SÒNICA 5,52
3 Sudamérica Rubens - BARCELONA TRACTION 7,3
4 L'oucomballa COMPANYIA ELÈCTRICA DHARMA 10,04
5 Agost (Joan Albert Amargós) - MÚSICA URBANA 6,57
6 Tot l'enyor de demà JORDI SABATÉS 5,16
7 Saura I (Joan Saura) - BLAY TRITONO 9,36
8 Càntics de la carn (Max Sunyer) - ICEBERG 11,19
9 Tango del Rosselló (Xuclà/Batllés/Alguersuari) - TONI XUCLÀ 5,03
10 Odio en las cavernas TROPOPAUSA 4,19
1 Ocells del Mediterrani (Miquel Farrero) - ESQUEIXADA SNIFF 6,1
2 La rumba criminal (X.Batllés/T.Xuclà) - MIRASOL COLORES 5,02
3 L'home dibuixat (J.Sisa) - ORQUESTRA PLATERIA 6,26
4 Roseta d'Olivella (Popular) - LA RONDALLA DE LA COSTA 2,56
5 Llàgrimes i petons PAU RIBA 5,52
6 Rumba dels 60s (Xavier P.Pérez) - GATO PÉREZ 3,3
7 Béstia ORIOL TRAMVÍA 3,1
8 Sardana flamenca TOTI SOLER 4,26
9 Jo vull que m'acaricïis TETE MONTOLIU 10,27

http://www.actualrecords.com/mostrad...p?order=910873
http://www.picap.com/en/Portada3

[ozric75]

Hi,

All the best from Spain!

Some recommendations:



Orquestra Mirasol - Salsa Catalana (74)



Orquestra Mirasol - D'Oca a Oca i Tira Que Et Toca (75)



Mirasol Colores - Linea 5 (79)

[ozric75]

Orquestra Mirasol - D'Oca a Oca i Tira Que Et Toca (75)



Companyia Electrica Dharma - l'Oucomballa
This band is a legend in Catalonia. Here you can see one of their concerts in FC Barcelona Stadium as a part of a concert FREEDOM for CATALONIA



Here in front of an audience of 18.000 people. Not bad at all

[ozric75]

Toti Soler - Desdesig (77). Excellent jazz fusion with flamenco guitar !!!



Secta Sonica - Astroferia. A band with 3 lead guitars!



Coto en Pel - Holocaust

[ozric75]

Lluis Llach - Viatge a Itaca (75). Here you can find King Crimson influences. The arranger is Manel Camp (leader of Fusioon). Lluis Llach is one of the most famous songwritters from Catalonia. Nowadays He is involved in politics (he defends the freedom of Catalonia from Spain). Also, he produced an excellent wine (Celler Vall Llach)



Pan & Regaliz (71). Proto Prog from Catalonia, Spain



Miguel Rios is a famous Spanish songwritter. He produced 3 prog albums in the 70's, being La Huerta Atomica their most proggy. As a curiosity, Thijs van Leer was the keyboard player of Miguel Rios in the beginning of the 80's.

[ozric75]

Canarios playing Jesucristo Superstar with famous spanish singer Camilo Sexto as a Jesus. Highly recommended album !!!



Modulos - Plenitud (72). This is their most prog album. Not so far from italian prog from the 70's.

[ozric75]

Franklin - Life Circle (74). This Prog album from 74 was was never released until 2008. A gem



Pedro Ruiz Blas & Dolores "Asa - Nisi - Masa" (79) with maestro Paco de Lucia on flamenco guitar.



Neuronium is the Spanish Tangerine Dream. Their first 5 albums are highly recommended. Here a Jam with Ashra (Manuel Göttsching) & Canarios Leader (Teddy Bautista)

[ozric75]

Suso Saiz Quartet. Fans of 90's & 2000's King Crimson need to listen this album. One of my favorites albums from Spain.



Brincos - Mundo, Demonio, y Carne (70). A pop band that released this proto prog album.



Ñu - Cuentos de Ayer y de Hoy (78). Often compaed to Jethro Tull. The frist two albums are the good ones for the prog fan

[yoyiceu]

A short TV clip from Spain about the Rock Andaluz movement... https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=f4cvGgh_wCM

[MYSTERIOUS TRAVELLER]

this thread inspired me to load up the carousel for a Spain night

one of the CDs that played was very much in the Flamenco inspired vein...

Guadalquivir

[John Doe]

It's been ages since I heard Neuronium, thanks for refreshing my memory, here they are playing with Vangelis.

[Pr33t]

Not in the same vein as a lot of things mentioned, but a real killer that is just about to see its first CD reissue. Here's the blurb from the label:

Proyecto A was the brainchild of the great Frank Dubé from Barcelona. What can we say about him? A truly fascinating character: a pioneer of rock & roll and twist in Spain during the late 50s and early 60s, an accomplished accordion player, a showman, comedian, a Psychoaesthetics master…But he should also be considered as one of the first psychedelic pioneers in Spain due to his groundbreaking work on the Proyecto A album.

Frank started working on Proyecto A in 1969. Impressed by the moon landing, he wanted to create a concept album about the Solar System planets using tone scales and groove music so people could dance to it at clubs. He recruited some of the best studio musicians around and the result was delirious concept album fuelled by fuzz-wah guitars, powerful, crazy vocals, electronic & bizarre effects, Hammond organ, soulish horns, funky drums…

Due to the limitations of recording studios in Spain at the time, Frank had to create his own effects and sound effects for the album. He used a primitive Binson Echo unit, he recorded vocals through guitar amps, he used guitar effects on the keyboards, recorded with a portable microphone the sound of the beach, waves and TV sounds…

Proyecto A was released in 1971 housed in an amazing gatefold sleeve depicting all the musicians wearing strange & bizarre psychedelic outfits. The project was shrouded in mystery (Frank used pseudonyms for all the musicians involved) and for many years the Proyecto A album has been plagued with many false rumors and stories. We set the record straight with this, the first ever reissue done in cooperation with Frank Dubé.

This reissue also includes the previously unreleased Proyecto B recordings from 1974, which were meant to be the second Proyecto A album. Recorded at EMI studios in Barcelona but never released at the time, this features Frank Dubé backed by famous Spanish prog band Iceberg plus sax / flute player Juan Mena (ex-Máquina and Eddie Lee Mattison Band).

[Trane]

just in case this goes to PM land

Actually, it had dropped from my radar

[Svetonio]

This a track from Betis, 41 EP (2013) by Vodevil Vargas:



http://www.vodevilvargas.com/

[interbellum]

Musica Urbana Iberia

Just found a copy of the 2016 RCA/Zeleste-re-release and I really liked what I heard. A bit Weather Report-meets-Caldera:

[Sputnik]

Just found a copy of the 2016 RCA/Zeleste-re-release and I really liked what I heard. A bit Weather Report-meets-Caldera:

I've had a CDR of this for a while, and was happy it got reissued, and I grabbed it when it came out last year. I know MU's first album gets a lot of love, but I personally prefer this one, it hangs together better to my ears. So I definitely recommend this one to fans of MU or Spanish Prog generally, particularly those who like the fusiony side of things.

Bill

[TheH]

Both albums of MU are among the very best from Spain IMHO.

[Camelogue]

Never understood why Gotic was compared to Camel.

They sound more like smooth jazz to me.