OFFICIAL VINYL REISSUE OF ALAS – PINTA TU ALDEA

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   Release date: 20 June 2022

Label:
PQR-Disques plusqueréel

Band name: Alas

Album title:  Pinta Tu Aldea

Format: Vinyl LP (180 gr., 300 gr. full-color sleeve) 

Other specifications: Strictly limited pressing of 300
copies

Cat.
no: PQR-009

For artists management and label inquiries contact: 

George
Rossolatos, [email protected]

File under (or nearby): Rodolfo
Mederos, Arti e Mestieri, Cybotron, Weather Report, Zao, Etna, Carpe Diem,
Shylock, Kandahar, Recreation

First
official re-release of this one-of-a-kind gem by Argentinean progmeisters Alas,
in a strictly limited edition of 300 copies, with a newly designed (and band-approved)
back cover. Pinta Tu Aldea, recorded in 1977, and formerly released by EMI in 1983,
belongs to the cohort of outstanding artworks that sound as fresh and relevant
today, as when they were originally recorded. Here, Alas digress from their
ELP-esque affinities which permeate their debut album, in quest for a unique
sound that would blend for the first time the avant tango idiom of Piazzolla
with the multilayered prog arrangements of Gustavo Moretto, with a helping hand
from Carlos Riganti and Pedro Aznar. Pinta Tu Aldea laid the very foundational
building block of an eclectic sub-genre, namely, avant-tango/prog jazz and folk
fusion. This has nothing to do with tango for purist tango lovers, obviously,
but with a freeform adaptation of tango instrumentation and composition paths
to the exigencies of progrock in conversation with jazz-fusion, folk and
electronics, culminating in an expressionist landscape of unparalleled
virtuosity, a bedazzling puzzle of motifs that might be rearranged ad infinitum
in a maze of ever-shifting porous boundaries. This is hardly tango you can
dance to, but surely tango to headbang to, inasmuch as cabaret metal might
hardly qualify for cabaret enthusiasts. This is tango’s unabashed unfettering from
its formalist constraints and its squirmish takeover in a hybrid cosmopolitan
appropriation. 

For more info visit:

Alas
biography & reviews

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alas_(Argentine_band)

http://www.progarchives.com/album.asp?id=9391

https://www.youtube.com/user/Alasmusic/videos

PQR-Disques plusqueréel
website 

https://pqrrecords.blogspot.com 

Official Discogs page

https://www.discogs.com/release/22940528-Alas-Pinta-Tu-Aldea 

Also find us @ Bandcamp

https://pqr-disquesplusquerel.bandcamp.com/album/pinta-tu-aldea

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	Release date: 20 June 2022 Label: PQR-Disques plusqueréel Band name: Alas Album title: Pinta Tu Aldea Format: Vinyl LP (180 gr., 300 gr. full-color sleeve) Other specifications: Strictly limited pressing of 300 copies Cat. no: PQR-009 For artists management and label inquiries contact: George Rossolatos, [email protected] File under (or nearby): Rodolfo Mederos, Arti e Mestieri, Cybotron, Weather Report, Zao, Etna, Carpe Diem, Shylock, Kandahar, Recreation First official re-release of this one-of-a-kind gem by Argentinean progmeisters Alas, in a strictly limited edition of 300 copies, with a newly designed (and band-approved) back cover. Pinta Tu Aldea, recorded in 1977, and formerly released by EMI in 1983, belongs to the cohort of outstanding artworks that sound as fresh and relevant today, as when they were originally recorded. Here, Alas digress from their ELP-esque affinities which permeate their debut album, in quest for a unique sound that would blend for the first time the avant tango idiom of Piazzolla with the multilayered prog arrangements of Gustavo Moretto, with a helping hand from Carlos Riganti and Pedro Aznar. Pinta Tu Aldea laid the very foundational building block of an eclectic sub-genre, namely, avant-tango/prog jazz and folk fusion. This has nothing to do with tango for purist tango lovers, obviously, but with a freeform adaptation of tango instrumentation and composition paths to the exigencies of progrock in conversation with jazz-fusion, folk and electronics, culminating in an expressionist landscape of unparalleled virtuosity, a bedazzling puzzle of motifs that might be rearranged ad infinitum in a maze of ever-shifting porous boundaries. This is hardly tango you can dance to, but surely tango to headbang to, inasmuch as cabaret metal might hardly qualify for cabaret enthusiasts. This is tango’s unabashed unfettering from its formalist constraints and its squirmish takeover in a hybrid cosmopolitan appropriation. For more info visit: Alas biography & reviews https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alas_(Argentine_band) http://www.progarchives.com/album.asp?id=9391 https://www.youtube.com/user/Alasmusic/videos PQR-Disques plusqueréel website https://pqrrecords.blogspot.com Official Discogs page https://www.discogs.com/release/22940528-Alas-Pinta-Tu-Aldea Also find us @ Bandcamp https://pqr-disquesplusquerel.bandcamp.com/album/pinta-tu-aldea