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Discography
Members featured in the album
KUBERO DÍAZ - Electric & acoustic guitars and vocals
MORCY REQUENA - Bass and vocals
MANIJA PAZ - Drums and maracas
Guest musicians:
ENRIQUE GORNATI - Guitar
SKAY BLELLISON - Guitar
Members featured in the album
SEBASTIÁN FAILANE RIVAS - Leader guitar
MORCY REQUENA - Guitar and vocals
ARY FARY - Bass
GUSTAVO MELI - Drums
Members featured in the album
KUBERO DÍAZ: Guitar, slide and vocals
MORCY REQUENA: Guitar and vocals
SEBASTIÁN FAILANE RIVAS: Guitar and chorus
ARY FARY - Bass
GUSTAVO MELI - Drums
Members featured in the album
KUBERO DÍAZ - Electric & acoustic guitars and vocals
MORCY REQUENA - Bass and vocals
MANIJA PAZ - Drums and maracas
SEBASTIÁN FAILANE RIVAS: Guitar and chorus
ARY FARY - Bass
GUSTAVO MELI - Drums
Biography
La Cofradía de la Flor Solar was as much a community of hippie artisans of La Plata as a group of Psychedelic Rock formed by the artisans themselves. They were active in the late '60s and early' 70s and came to have presentations at the Barock festival and an LP. However, the wear and tear for community life made the community, and therefore the rock ensemble, separate in 1971.
In later years, his former members went on to swell ranks of prominent rock ensembles such as Billy Bond and La Pesada del Rock and Roll, Miguel Abuelo & Nada, Punch, and Patricio Rey y sus Redonditos de Ricota.
The group began as an artistic venture that emerged within a hippie community from La Plata City, around 1968. In the community there were artisans, intellectuals, plastic artists, musicians, all strongly influenced by the flower power culture, pacifism and countercultural movements that led to in the French May, unavoidable topics in the young culture of the time.
Among some of the members that made up this community were among others the later rock journalist and ecologist Miguel Grinberg, guitarist Kubero Díaz (member of La Pesada del Rock and Roll), graphic artist Rocambole Cohen and guitarist Skay Beilinson, these two last, future members of Patricio Rey and his Redonditos de Ricota.
A sister band of La Cofradía were also Diplodocum Red & Brown, with whom they shared small shows. In Diplodocum also played Skay Beilinson, although the group lasted very little; nevertheless, it got to publish a simple titled " Blues del hombre de la cara azul" / "Blind Sex " in 1969.
Aided by Miguel Grinberg, in 1968 the set of La Cofrafía managed to record an album, however, no record label was interested in it.
In 1969 La Cofradía debuted in a well-known theater in Buenos Aires («Teatro Del Globo»), and released the single "Sombra fugaz por la ciudad" / "La mufa", which marked the official record debut of the band, under the label VIK, a branch of the multinational RCA. VIK used to bet at that time (late 60s, early 70s) by artists who were later recognized as pioneers of Argentine Rock, such as Almendra, Los Gatos or Manal, so that La Cofradía was just one more signing for the company, although the band would not contractually join that American company beyond 1969.
In 1970 the group had its most important recital in its history, when it performed at the first B.A. Rock, a massive event held in November of that year, in which they shared the stage with sets of the caliber of Los Gatos, Manal, Almendra, Moris, Vox Dei, Alma y Vida, Pajarito Zaguri and Pappo's Blues among others. In that recital La Cofradía had a very good reception from the public and critics, becoming the whole revelation of the festival.
That same year, a song of his, "Juana", was included in the compiled Let's order pears to Mandioca, released by that independent label, which would go bankrupt that same year.
As a result, they are offered the opportunity to record their debut album, through the Microfón label, an important local company in the field of Argentine tango and folklore in the 60s, which began to turn to the vernacular Rock scene, called "National Progressive"at that time (the Talent-Microfon subscript would be created for this purpose soon after). The album (homonym) was recorded by Kubero Díaz (guitar and vocals), Morci Requena (bass) and "Manija" Paz (drums), plus Enrique Gornatti (guitar) and Skay Beilinson (guitar) as guests. This debut album was released in 1971, with the production of Jorge Álvarez (creator of the aforementioned Mandioca label) and, as recording supervisor, Billy Bond, the charismatic leader of the pioneer Argentine Hard Rock band, Billy Bond y La Pesada del Rock and Roll, singer, producer, and then also an entrepreneur.
However, shortly after the release of this debut album, human wear and tear for community life caused that in 1971 the community of artisans, and consequently, the band, was dissolved.
After the dissolution of the hippie community, its members undertook various paths. Several members went on to swell the ranks of Billy Bond y La Pesada del Rock and Roll. Others (such as Gornatti, Kubero, Morci Requena and violinist Jorge Pinchevsky) accompanied the various tours made by Argentina and Europe by musicians Miguel Abuelo and Miguel Cantilo, in bands such as Miguel Abuelo & Nada and Punch. This is explained in the dense situation that was living in the country at that time: the socio-political climate was becoming thin in Argentina in the 70s, musicians and close friends of Argentine Rock in general, began to be harassed by the forces of the order and operational paramilitary cells in the country. The return of Juan Domingo Perón to Argentina did not alter the panorama much, the rarefied air, uncertainty, strong social tension, and political volatility intensified, and young people and Rock fell prey to that skein. Several groups were dissolved, due in large part to the growing atmosphere of violence and insecurity, and fundamentally, to the 1976 coup d'etat. Several of its former members decided to go into exile, causing an artistic exodus that nurtured several countries such as Mexico, United States, France, United Kingdom, but, fundamentally, Spain.
After long years, in 1997 the return of La Cofradía de la Flor Solar was announced, with an album called "El café de los ciegos", with a more modernized sound. For this return the band was made up of the historic Morci Requena on guitar and voice, accompanied by younger musicians, such as Sebastián Rivas on guitar, Gustavo Meli on drums, Ariel Farías on bass and Alejandro Moyano on keyboards. Then they release the following year another album: "Cofrádika", and later the band dissolves again.
In 2005 a disc with old unpublished recordings, "Histórico" was published. They meet again in 2007, releasing a new studio album entitled "Kundabuffer", with Sebastián Rivas on guitar and vocals, Morci Requena on bass and vocals, and Gustavo Meli on drums. This album, which featured integral graphic art from "Rocambole" Cohen, was the first album of an Argentine rock band available to be downloaded for free (in mp3 format) from the band's official site.
Information
* La cofradía de la flor solar in Wikipedia
# Apologies, translated by https://translate.google.com.ar