Spanish prog!

erik neuteboom wrote: I wonder how many progheads on this site know the 2-CD Duende Electrico featuring bands like Goma, Triana, Cai, Medina Azahara, etc. it's a perfect introduction to the Spanish Prog!, adios!!

I don't.... but I do now hahah. Thanks!  I guess a good question would be... how different (if at all) is Spanish prog from the Italiian stuff.  Not of course that all the Italian stuff is the same.....  Any particular regional/stylistic differences?

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

Happy to see this thread is still open!!

Let me say that next CD from Senogul won't be just a re-arrangement of "Tránsitos". There will be some more new tracks, more that 1 hour of music altogether.

I still don't know Goma and Máquina and I think I should get their records soon...

Good work Sean, arriba!

Pagassari: I have heard the first Tarantula (on Korean label), harder-edeged prog with some amazing Mellotron eruptions!

I just received an e-mail from Eduardo, keyboardplayer from Senogul, their re-arranged CD Transitos will be released this year and features more keyboards, especially the Kurzweil.

Has anybody recommendations from Spanish prog with flamenco (I own cd's from Cai, Medina Azahara, Azahar, Miguel Rios, Mezquita, Triana and Diego De Moron).

Highly recommended: the 2-CD compilation Duende Electrico - see my review on this site.

I added this week Máquina! and Goma.

Both excellent groups that are much worth the investigations.

Next week I will try to include Basque folk prog Errobi. I have two of their three albums and the first one is astounding, but I must hear and research them more to write the bio 

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Thanks again, Pagasarri!

I am one of the guitar players. I would say I play the lead guitar, but Pedro (the other guitar player from Senogul) plays also some lead guitar when he uses the e-bow (like in DrGull, at the very beginning of the CD)

About our website, we are taking care of it ourselves and we don't have so much time to update it... that's why there's not much information about the record. Sorry, it's our fault!

But I can tell you that although it's going quite slowly (we can only go to the studio on weekends)  it is sounding very good, we are so happy with the results so far! As you may know, "Tránsitos" was recorded playing live, and although the sound quality is pretty good it could be improved. So we are recording every track from "Tránsitos" again, with much better sound and more instrumentation (more keyboard layers, some percussion instruments and we plan to include a choir in one track and some brass arragements in another one). But we are recording many other tracks, not just re-recording "Tránsitos". Actually, we already have enough material for two CDs. Probably the first one will include all our prog tracks (it will be about 1 hour long) and the second one will include our new more experimental songs, in a style I would call progressive MUSIC, although maybe not ROCK.

Thanks again for your interest in the band, I hope we can keep in contact.

Please, write me an email if you need any information about the band or the recording.

Oh, i forgot it

Which instrument do you play in senogul carakhallo??

Hi everyone! Just wanted to say THANKS a lot to Erik and Pagasarri for recommending Senogul in this thread. Since I play in that band I will not say anything about how good is "Tránsitos"... 

Well, at least let me say that it's a mix of many different influences, with a Spanish touch here and there... and there's also a long andalusian rock suite, a tribute to an almost lost style that we like so much. That's all I can say. Get "Tránsitos" here!! (www.senogul.tk)

Well, now let's talk about my favourite Spanish prog CDs. Of course "Ciclos" is a masterpiece, the best one IMO. I also love Cai, Triana, Alameda and Eduardo Bort (if it wasn't for his accent...). Crack's CD has an very special meaning for me, since the band was from my city and Senogul recorded a demo CD in the studio of Crack's keyboard player (Mento Hevia). He told us Crack had already finished composing a second CD when they disbanded and he says it was better than the first one !! But they didn't manage to record anything. That's bad luck for prog history....

I don't like so much Mezquita-Recuerdos De Mi Tierra. I can't find anything special there, sorry...

Just one recommendation: do you know Camarón? He was the greatest flamenco singer. In 1980 he got some very good musicians together (some of them from the Spanish prog scene) to record a flamenco-rock album, "La leyenda del tiempo". It's not exactly prog... but flamenco-rock, which means that it's more flamenco-oriented than the typical andalusian rock. If you like that stlye, try it!!