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Direct Link To This Post Posted: July 20 2011 at 11:03
Spain has a lot of old and new wonderful bands. That Gotic album is a highlight!
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Direct Link To This Post Posted: July 20 2011 at 15:49
Originally posted by Luca Pacchiarini Luca Pacchiarini wrote:

By the way, does anyone have informations on the legendary Gotic second album?
 
It is rumored that they recorded a folow up to Escenes, in a jazzier vein... some say it's not available, some say it can be founda as bootleg, some say it's an official release...
 
Anybody?? I'd love to hear it
I don't know, but Greg Walker offers it:
MAQUETA (+ BONUS TRACK) (JAPANESE TACHIKA MINI LP SLEEVE) $20 -- Previously unreleased 2nd album from 1978!
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Direct Link To This Post Posted: July 20 2011 at 15:52
shall we include it in the PA database then?
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Direct Link To This Post Posted: July 20 2011 at 16:48
^ I'm not sure. I propose to wait until more info will be available.
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Direct Link To This Post Posted: July 20 2011 at 18:08
Then we need someone to volunteer and review the album for us... eheh
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Direct Link To This Post Posted: July 21 2011 at 15:06
I bought the Gotic album "Maqueta" from Greg Walker.  It comes in a Tachika mini lp sleeve.  The quality of the tracks compositionally is essentially equivalent to "Escenes," though the style is a bit more upbeat on "Maqueta."  The audio quality is very good--in fact there is a song included which is labeled as a demo, which is clearly inferior to the others.  The other seven songs are all excellent, and anyone who enjoys "Escenes" should have the same feelings about "Maqueta."  No real new ground broken, but they continue in the excellent style of the debut. 
 
I recall that Greg told me that he had talked to the guitarist about this album.  Apparently he was quiet for a second and then said, "Oh!  Yes!  Now I remember.  We made those recordings but they never came out on a record."
 
I haven't added it to the database because frankly it's probably considered a bootleg.  I don't know how Tachika got the tapes of the session, but they've been floating around for many years.  It's a shame, because the quality is easily good enough for an official release.
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Direct Link To This Post Posted: July 22 2011 at 11:00
I don´t know if this is cheating, but do any of you guys know Cabezas de Cera? They´re from Mexico, so I suppose they´re Espanol speaking as well.
Memowakeman seems to be the only chap around, who like me have completely fallen for this wonderful band. These guys are fantastic, and at least according to my ears, one of the guiding lights on the forefront of modern progressive music. In fact I think Nil, The Gourishankar, Vespero and Cabezas are among those bands who could be the future of prog, if the genre still wants or needs to progress. This is not to say, that I don´t enjoy a lot of other artists or that everything needs to be "progressive" for me to like it - nonono no, but more in the vein of how absolutely fantastic it is to find music, that breaks boundaries and successfully to boot!


 

 


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Direct Link To This Post Posted: July 22 2011 at 11:12
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I saw them in the Romantic Warriors dvd and thought they were very cool.  
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Direct Link To This Post Posted: July 22 2011 at 11:29
^Hey Jim - if you´d like to expand that ever growing music library of yours, you could start by getting their self-titled debut, which is very much the best way to start with the bandBig smile 

Small side-note: I think I read somewhere, that many of the percussive instruments used on their albums are homemade, which I found very enticing and actually was one of the main reasons I bought one of their records in the first place. 
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