Discography
Members featured in the album
LUIS ALBERTO SPINETTA - Guitars and lead vocals
HÉCTOR "POMO" LORENZO - Drums and percussion
CARLOS ALBERTO "MACHI" RUFINO - Bass and vocals
Members featured in the album
LUIS ALBERTO SPINETTA - Guitars and lead vocals
HÉCTOR "POMO" LORENZO - Drums and percussion
CARLOS ALBERTO "MACHI" RUFINO - Bass and vocals
Guest musicians:
ESTEBAN MARTÍNEZ PRIETO - ARP Strings Ensemble
LUIS SANTIAGO SPINETTA - Lyrics
Members featured in the album
LUIS ALBERTO SPINETTA - Guitars and lead vocals
HÉCTOR "POMO" LORENZO - Drums and percussion
CARLOS ALBERTO "MACHI" RUFINO - Bass and vocals
TOMÁS GUBITSCH - Guitars
Members featured in the album
LUIS ALBERTO SPINETTA - Guitars and lead vocals
HÉCTOR "POMO" LORENZO - Drums and percussion
CARLOS ALBERTO "MACHI" RUFINO - Bass and vocals
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Biography
After the completion of Pescado Rabioso, Luis Alberto Spinetta founded Invisible together with Héctor "Pomo" Lorenzo on drums and Carlos Alberto "Machi" Rufino on bass and vocals. Both musicians were part of the Pappo's Blues trio, led by Pappo, at the time they were summoned by Spinetta, and had just recorded the album Pappo's Blues Volume 3, considered by Rolling Stone magazine as the album #41 among the 100 best in the history of the Argentine rock.
Pappo's musical and personal influence on Spinetta at that time is very important and complex. Pescado Rabioso, his previous band, had been inspired by Pappo's Blues, and Spinetta came to give Pappo his guitar as a sign of his enormous affection. But on the other hand, that relationship of affection deteriorated dramatically and the relationship between the two ended up being very bad.
Spinetta had already played with Pomo several times, in the group Tórax -the first band created by Spinetta after Almendra that never became formal-, in Billy Bond and La Pesada del Rock and Roll, and in his first solo album, “Spinettalandia y sus amigos! -in which a song composed by both is included: “Descalza camina”.
Spinetta's initial proposal was to create a collective experience, in which no individuality would take on relevance. For that reason, all the songs were signed jointly, as was the record contract, and there were no notes or personal journalistic interviews, which were always granted as a trio. However, the weight of Spinetta's creative talent would progressively affect that collective spirit. initial and piercing the unity of the group.
Spinetta wanted to create a sound that would differ from the rock of that time, characterized by the instrumental distortion pedalboard (overdrive), both from international bands like The Who, Led Zeppelin or Deep Purple, as well as from national ones like Pappo's Blues, or Vox. Dei. Invisible's sound was characterized by its lack of distortion, combining the lyricism of Spinetta with the powerful energy of the base provided by Pomo and Machi Rufino.
Although from a musical point of view Gubitsch's entry was decisive in reaching the high artistic level and popularity that the band reached in its last year, from a personal point of view, the presence of a fourth member ended up being the trigger for the breakup of the group.
Invisible broke up in early 1977 when they were at the height of their popularity. Before that, he gave two historic recitals, in August and December 1976 at the Luna Park stadium, to present the album “El Jardín de los Presentes”, with Rodolfo Mederos as a guest on bandoneon. Between the two, it gathered 25,000 people, a surprising turnout for the time, which had only been achieved by the Sui Generis duo (Charly García and Nito Mestre) at their farewell the previous year, in the same place.
After the separation Spinetta summoned "Pomo" Lorenzo and "Machi" Rufino again to be part of various projects. On the one hand, Machi was the bass player in almost all the songs on the album “A 18 'del sol”, while Pomo integrated Spinetta Jade in all of his formations. Both were also called to accompany Spinetta on his fifth solo album, Mondo di cromo from 1983. Two of the songs on the album, "Días de silencio" and "El bálsamo" were performed by the three of them together.
In 2001 a compilation album with the best songs of the group was released. The same carried the title “Obras cumbres”.
At the Spinetta y las Bandas Eternas recital in 2009, a retrospective of Spinetta's career in which he brought together the bands that had accompanied him over 40 years, Invisible performed five songs: "Durazno sangrando", "Jugo de lúcuma", "Lo que nos ocupa es la conciencia, es la abuela que regula el mundo", "Niño condenado" and "Amor de primavera", the latter with the participation of Lito Epumer on guitar. Although it was planned that they would also perform "Encadenado al ánima", Spinetta finally decided to remove him from the list because "he had a riff that had him half learned and half grasped".
In the year 2022 he manages to rescue from an old tape recorded on a console the only record released on CD by the group, recorded at the Teatro Coliseo in 1975, leaving a fantastic legacy to the fans of the band.
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