Artist: Spinetta Genre(s):
Rock
Latin
Discography:
Camalotus Year: 2004
Tracks: 4
Para Los Arboles Year: 2003
Tracks: 12
Obras en vivo (2001) Year: 2002
Tracks: 12
Silver Sorgo Year: 2001
Tracks: 12
Los Ojos Year: 1999
Tracks: 14
San Cristoforo Year: 1998
Tracks: 12
Elija y Gane Year: 1998
Tracks: 18
MTV Estrelicia Year: 1997
Tracks: 14
Fuego Gris Year: 1993
Tracks: 17
Peluson Of Milk Year: 1991
Tracks: 15
Exactas Year: 1990
Tracks: 10
Don Lucero Year: 1989
Tracks: 9
Tester de Violencia Year: 1988
Tracks: 11
Priv Year: 1986
Tracks: 11
La La La Year: 1986
Tracks: 19
Mondo Di Cromo Year: 1985
Tracks: 13
Madre en alos luz Year: 1984
Tracks: 9
Kamikaze Year: 1982
Tracks: 11
Los Nidos Que Escriben En El Cielo Year: 1981
Tracks: 10
El Valle Interior Year: 1980
Tracks: 7
Almendra - En Obras Year: 1980
Tracks: 13
Alma De Diamante Year: 1980
Tracks: 7
Only Love Can Sustain Year: 1979
Tracks: 11
Spinetta a 18' del sol Year: 1977
Tracks: 8
Almendra 2 Year: 1970
Tracks: 17
Almendra (version rara) Year: 1969
Tracks: 20
Almendra Year: 1969
Tracks: 9
Spinetta -- wide name Luis Alberto Spinetta -- is one of the nigh significant and influential figures in the development of sway music in Argentina. Renowned for his poetical lyrics, Spinetta emerged as a voice of john Rock & roll rebellion during a sentence of intense social unrest, couching taboo social and political commentary in subtle metaphors that much incurred the wrath of the Argentine politics. Taking the Beatles -- and John Lennon in particular -- as his musical base, Spinetta added his own South American hippy sensitivity early on, eventually branching kO'd into more progressive, rarify compositions steeped in nothingness concordance. He continued recording all the way into the new millennium, left a well-respected figure in his home nation.
Spinetta was born January 23, 1950, in Buenos Aires, and grew up in the Belgrano territory; he began vocalizing and playacting guitar at a young age, making his television debut at age 14. Charged by his first encounter with the Beatles, the 17-year-old Spinetta formed a band called Almendra in 1967. Their 1969 debut record album, Almendra I, basically wrote the commencement significant chapter of the history of Argentine rock, producing a immense hit in the Spinetta paper "Muchacha (Ojos de Papel)." After the 1970 followup, Almendra II, the group splintered, and Spinetta recorded a guest-laden solo project, La Busqueda de la Estrella, credited to Spinettalandia y Sus Amigos.
In 1972, Spinetta formed a unexampled group called Pescado Rabioso (Rabid Fish), a more aggressive stone outfit influenced by psychedelia and electrical blues-rock that produced some of his most groundbreaking ceremony work. The group recorded three albums over the socially roiled 1972-1973 period (the last, the acclaimed
Artaud, was fundamentally a Spinetta solo album). In late 1973, Spinetta disbanded Pescado Rabioso and formed a raw grouping, Invisible, which marked a partial return to acoustic instruments and saw him commencement to contain malarky into his compositions. Additionally, his songwriting voice was ontogeny more provocative, and many Invisible songs came to be touchstones of the politically repressive times (indeed, both band and fans were sometimes captive after performances). As a pernicious material body of protestation, Spinetta's albums often featured nontextual matter by acquaintances world Health Organization disappeared under the Argentine totalitarianism.
After three albums from 1974-1976 with Invisible, Spinetta stepped out under his have describe on 1977's A 18 del Sol, forming a new backing band that entered full-fledged jazz-rock territory. For the reexamination, he traveled to the U.S. in 1979 and recorded Only Love Can Sustain, an uncharacteristic album of jazzy, glibly produced piano pop he has since disavowed. Returning to Argentina, Spinetta briefly reunited Almendra earlier forming a raw grouping, Spinetta Jade, his most musically progressive contrive to date. Four albums followed from 1980-1984, as well as a duo of solo platters. With the return of democracy to Argentina in the mid-'80s, Spinetta went solo one time over again and recorded prolifically from 1986-1991, including an aborted externalize with Charly GarcÃa and a more successful collaborationism with the danton True Young Fito Paez.
Apart from the 1993 film soundtrack Fuego Gris, Spinetta remained tacit for some time; his marriage ceremony dissolved in 1996, and he was romantically joined to model Carolina Peleretti. He in conclusion returned in 1997 with a stripped -- in time static musically progressive -- group, los Socios del Desierto (The Partners of the Desert); they released a self-titled debut and an
MTV Unplugged installment that twelvemonth. San Cristóforo followed in 1998, as did the introverted Los Ojos in 1999. The solo project Silver Sorgo, featuring comment on the Argentine economic crisis, was released in 2001, earning Spinetta iI Latin Grammy nominations (C. H. Best Solo Rock Album and Best Rock Song, the latter for "El Enemigo").
