Los Canarios

 

The track on this website from their album Ciclos is one of the BEST 70's tracks I have ever heard.. Sometimes it pays just to cylce through the whole genre on the MP3 list on this site. It has everything I love about music in it all at once... including a nice little rip from classical music towards the end.

 

Does anyone own this album? I cannot WAIIITTT to get a hold of it and actually hear the whole thing.

 

That was just me showing excitement because when I find music I like, I get a sort of elation I can't describe. Sorry for messing up your site with the all caps. :-P

 

 

Having said that I have to admit that it's an album I don't listen much to. When I do, I objectively find it a masterpiece, partly because of how well they managed the bold ambition it represented in the very difficult environment of mid-70's Spain, but it has a significant portion of quite experimental stuff which, while being good, it's not my favourite style.

One of those albums that when I listen to I truly appreciate, but when I don't I do not feel the calling to play it.

 

BTW I'm Spanish and this is why I knew this album from early. May I remark that this album has become rather punished among Spanish proggers because of the history of band leader Teddy Bautista. He became president of the Spanish Authors Association in 1995 and during the years he accumulated a very bad reputation in the eyes of true artists, misusing his power and holding on to the position only by dirty politics and deals with the mass media. So real artist musicians hated him but he somehow held his chair by power plays.

 

His dark reign ended last year (2011) when finally it became public that he had been enriching himself with the money of the Association and he had to dismiss himself and was legally accused. I did not follow the latest developments but I think that he is still waiting for trial, he got his passport cancelled so he can not escape abroad, and it is very likely that trial will sentence him to jail.

 

So it's a masterpiece album with a very dark shadow. Personally I do not link both, when Canarios recorded Ciclos in 1974 Teddy was 31 and he was still far from commiting his crimes, so I hold no punishment on the album.

 

But most of reviewers here find lots of good qualities in this album: http://www.progarchives.com/album.asp?id=2808.

Perhaps I don't see something, I don't know.