Los Canarios
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Topic: Los Canarios
Posted By: Smurph
Subject: Los Canarios
Date Posted: May 07 2012 at 09:07
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Show some love for this band.
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.
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Posted By: HolyMoly
Date Posted: May 07 2012 at 09:24
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Never heard of them before ... but after reading a few reviews, I'm eager to check it out too.
------------- My other avatar is a Porsche It is easier for a camel to pass through the eye of a needle if it is lightly greased. -Kehlog Albran |
Posted By: Snow Dog
Date Posted: May 07 2012 at 09:33
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We really don't need capitals to pay attention. ------------- http://www.last.fm/user/Snow_Dog" rel="nofollow"> 
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Posted By: Saperlipopette!
Date Posted: May 07 2012 at 09:43
| Now that I think about it, it really does sound like Symphonic Rock for Smurphs. |
Posted By: Smurph
Date Posted: May 07 2012 at 11:03
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
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Snow Dog wrote:Posted By: Snow Dog
Date Posted: May 07 2012 at 11:52
^You didn't mess up the site, just me sense of order. ------------- http://www.last.fm/user/Snow_Dog" rel="nofollow">
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Posted By: Gerinski
Date Posted: May 07 2012 at 13:39
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I gave it 5 stars so yes, I own the album (CD edition) and I find it a masterpiece, here you can find my review if you didn't read it yet.
http://www.progarchives.com/album.asp?id=2808" rel="nofollow - http://www.progarchives.com/album.asp?id=2808
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.
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Posted By: Smurph
Date Posted: May 07 2012 at 15:51
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Awesome- I like the idea that a dark shadow surrounds the man that made it. A truly evil person sometimes makes the most breathtaking music. Evil has power. And while it might be frightening it is a joy to listen to. |
Posted By: hellogoodbye
Date Posted: May 07 2012 at 16:11
| I like Ciclos, but I prefer RDM's Contaminazione. The english language is the problem with that music. Sing the whole piece in spanish would have served the work better, in my humble opinion. |
Posted By: infocat
Date Posted: May 07 2012 at 20:25
I've not heard it, but I've heard of it. Isn't it all (not just the end) an interpretation of Vivaldi's The Four Seasons"? ------------- -- Frank Swarbrick Belief is not Truth. |
Posted By: Smurph
Date Posted: May 08 2012 at 13:58
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^ Yes- now that I'm looking up stuff about it- I guess I just didnt recognize it till the end. |
Posted By: Gerinski
Date Posted: May 08 2012 at 15:57
It contains several excerpts from Vivaldi's work but also quite some original music, it is far from simply a rendition of The Four Seasons with rock instruments.
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Posted By: NotAProghead
Date Posted: May 08 2012 at 20:03
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In my opinion LOS CANARIOS "Ciclos" is love-it-or-hate-it thing. For me it was a big disappointment - I wonder how they could turn Vivaldi's music into complete boredom. But most of reviewers here find lots of good qualities in this album: http://www.progarchives.com/album.asp?id=2808" rel="nofollow - http://www.progarchives.com/album.asp?id=2808 . Perhaps I don't see something, I don't know.  ------------- Who are you and who am I to say we know the reason why... (D. Gilmour) |