Spanish prog!

I don't know if people will think if they are prog or not, but I think they have art-rock tendencies

I'm talking about "Heroes del Silencio". It is a quite known band who started in the late 80s and dissapeared in the late 90s. Their leader, Enrique Bunbury is still active and he recently said he was going to work into progressive stuff.

Pata Negra and Ketama blended flamenco, rock and blues in a progressive way but not in the traditional way of the Seventies progrock, hardly any keyboards.

When I stayed a long weekend in Barcelona (in order to see Barcelona, 1-0 against Real Madrid, goal by Nadalin the final 15 minutes, 100.000 fans went wild!) I visited a large record store in the Paseo De Gracia street, do you know that store, was it Pan Y Musica? I bought threre Canarios and Bloque.

Today I have added Zaguan to this and written a review, I am curious to your and everybody's opinion, let me know!

Pagasarri, your English is better than my Spanish  ..

Yesterday I went progrock shopping in Amsterdam, I have bought a wonderful box set entitled Los Jonenes Flamencos, including 7 CD's featuring Pata Negra, Ketama, Tomatito, Carles Benavent, Jorge Pardo, Paco De Lucia, Diego and Armando Amador, excellent blues, rock and even progressive music!! You can also buy these 7 CD's separate.

HIGHLY RECOMMENDED!!

Pagasarri wrote: Sean Trane wrote: Pagasarri wrote: Goma has a second Cd called "goma 2" from 1979 It is a blend of folk and rock, but very simple IMO. The only prog song is the 8th which lengh is 9:28. The vocals are in Gallego, a language from the region of galicia in the NW of spain If you visit the spanish prog rock site , they say it is a different group!! And Dag Erik Asbjornsen says he is not sure it is the same group! Which to trust, then? Goma's 20 Abril album is sung in Spanish , not in Gallego! mmmm, interesting hahahaha Well, perhaps they converted to galiacians, who knows? Reading the review of "14 de abril" it's possible that goma and goma 2 were different bands, because in 14 de abril has KC and VDGG according to the review, while the other Goma it's very simple folk and rock. So, probably you're right.

Hang on if you read thev review on the archives, it is mine, so it does not count

Hello Micky.

If I compare Italian to Spanish prog I would say about Italian that on one hand the bands are more obvious influenced by ELP, Genesis and VDGG but on the other hand the bands often sound very adventurous, more complex and very alternating, sometimes less accessible.

The Spanish prog often contain folky elements from the several regions (as Carakhallo mentiones) including the different languages like Catalonian (Dr. No) and Basque (Itoiz). Especially the integration of the exciting flamenco is wonderful (Triana, Cai, Azahar). In my opinion the Spanish prog sound very original, often it's hard to find obvious influences (most of the time King Crimson and Camel).