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Members featured in the album
ALFREDO TOTH - Electric & acoustic guitar, bass and vocals
JUAN CIRO FOGLIATTA - Organ, piano, percussion and vocals
RICARDO JELICIÉ - Bass, harmónica, guitars and vocals
ROBERTO “Corre” LÓPEZ - Drums and percussion
Members featured in the album
ALFREDO TOTH - Electric & acoustic guitar, bass and vocals
JUAN CIRO FOGLIATTA - Organ, piano, percussion and vocals
OSVALDO “Bocón” FRASCINO - Guitars
RICARDO JELICIÉ - Bass, harmónica, guitars and vocals
ROBERTO “Corre” LÓPEZ - Drums and percussion
Biography
The last steps taken by Los Gatos, were already without Litto Nebbia in the group because he had been summoned for military service, so the rest of the members traveled to Europe to buy new instruments and see what possibilities of playing there were in the old continent. With a brief stay in London, they settled in Madrid where they began working with the following training: Ciro Fogliatta on keyboards, Alfredo Toth on bass, Norberto "Pappo" Napolitano on electric guitar and Oscar Moro on drums. In the Spanish capital they managed to make a couple of presentations, improvising themes, since they did not have an established material.
The RCA of Spain, invites them to record in their studies and offers all the services, in addition to the instrumentation that they wanted to have for the occasion. That was how they recorded two tracks in Hispavox studios.
After the recording, which finally fails to be edited, both Alfredo and Oscar decide to return to Buenos Aires. It was there that Roberto "Corre" López (former drummer of The Walkers) and David Lebon (who at that time was playing with La Pesada) join. Thus integrated they worked for a while more until Pappo decides to go to England.
Then they established a new formation with Roberto on drums, Ciro on keyboards, David on bass and a Spanish guitarist, so they began to play regularly in cities like Zaragoza, Valencia, among others, without achieving the expected success. It was not too long for them to undertake the return trip, which happened on November 15, 1971.
Back in Argentina, the group was dissolved and the only ones who intended to continue together were Fogliatta and "Corre" López. After a couple of months doing nothing, they resumed the rehearsals at the carnivals of ’72 when Rubén Biscione joined the guitar (former member of Los Mentales and guitarist of the band Fe) and Ricardo Jelicié (who was the bassist of Engranaje). Sacramento is born this way and soon after, more precisely after a month and a half, they go on to record a test album independently, with some songs in English to polish the sound of the group and offer them to record companies. However, Ciro was not convinced by the sound of two guitars because they overlapped his keyboards.
Then they sign a contract with RCA to record a single, but Roberto Biscione leaves who returns to the Fe group and replaces him on Alfredo Toth guitar. For the record company it was a strong bet to reposition itself as the leader of the Argentine rock market, after the separations of Los Gatos, Manal, Almendra, or the departure of Arco Iris to another label, and for the band it was an important leap and a support for your new project.
Then they enter RCA studios to record their melodic Folk Rock line music, with fine arrangements and delicate melodic lines, since the company wanted to edit a simple one.
The RCA company publishes the simple debut towards August 1972 with the songs " Oh Muchacha Adonde Vas" and " Cruza el Monte".
The good sales of the simple make RCA immediately ask for an LP, so in September they go back to studios to register nine more themes, which would be edited by October by the RCA, who launches the self-titled debut LP containing eleven tracks, with Alfredo Toth (electric and acoustic guitar, bass and vocals), Juan Ciro Fogliatta (organ, piano, percussion and chorus), Ricardo Jelicié (bass, harmonica, guitars and chorus), and Roberto "Corre" López (drums and percussion).
They present it live for press in a bowling alley and then on TV with Alma and Vida, but the company does not give it the necessary dissemination, which means that sales are not as expected.
After which and by mid-1973 the former bassist of Pescado Rabioso, Osvaldo “Bocón” Frascino, had left the band to continue his career as a guitarist and composer as he had done in his beginnings in Lágrimas and Engranaje with Pappo , joins as lead guitarist to Sacramento. "Bocón" was at his best, since he was a very good arranger and fantastic guitarist, that gave the band an incredible musical twist.
Bocón had a concept work based entirely on a "Western", it was called "Moviendo la Carreta", and it was a huge work of Progressive Rock sound close to Aquelarre and Pescadi Rabioso.
The band immediately begins to work on the work, and make contributions to the arrangements in its new quintet format. Again in RCA they enter to record their second LP, which would be titled as the work. For the first time in Argentina, a Rock group would record on an 8-channel console.
The material is presented live at the Trocadero Theater on August 3, 1973, before a full audience, but after the show Ciro Fogliatta is going to play with Espíritu.
Due to the few sales of the first album the company finally does not edit the album. Nor did they have the necessary support of the magazines, that makes the band separate towards October and the material is unpublished. Apparently the original tapes were erased in the recorder, after the separation of the group, but five tracks remained in a cassette with the studio shots that Ricardo Jelicié (already deceased) had in his possession, of which he delivered copies to Ciro Fogliatta, but these were never published.
Until in the year 2019, the Viajero Inmóvil Records label insists on recovering the valuable material of its second album and as soon as it began in 2020, finally the album “Moviendo la Carreta”, recorded in 1973, goes to the record market in CD format . Within those tapes were two songs that Sacramento had recorded in its beginnings, checking how the band sounded, which were a couple of English versions: "This Is It" by Billy Preston and the song of The Rollings Stones "Honky Tonk Women" (Mick Jagger / Ketich Richards), included in the digital album, since the group considered that the work should remain pure, as "Bocón" had conceived it, considering that they have nothing to do with the aesthetics of the album. In the end, these songs will only be part of bonus tracks in the album version of the digital platforms.
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