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Members featured in the album
NORBERTO “Pappo” NAPOLITANO - Guitar and vocals
ALEJANDRO MEDINA - Bass and vocals
ROLANDO CASTELLO JUNIOR - Drums and persussion
Members featured in the album
NORBERTO “Pappo” NAPOLITANO - Guitar and vocals
ALEJANDRO MEDINA - Bass and vocals
ROLANDO CASTELLO JUNIOR - Drums and persussion
Biography
Aeroblus was a Hard Rock and Heavy Metal supergroup formed by Pappo, Alejandro Medina and Rolando Castello Junior in 1977.
The band adopted the power trio format and had a heavier sound than Pappo's previous project (Pappo's Blues), reaching dark and dense atmospheres like those of the Black Sabbath group, for which it was an antecedent of what would later become Riff (Pappo's next band). Aeroblus was a band considered by many to be too ahead of its time, and the difficulties and pressures of the dictatorial era (especially to play a sound as heavy as theirs) caused them to break up that same year: Pappo returned to Pappo's Blues, Medina returned to Manal and Castelo returned to Brazil.
In 2012 on the occasion of his 35th birthday, there was a meeting with all the members except Pappo who died in 2005, who took his place as a guest for that concert was the musician Gustavo Nápoli.
After dissolving Pappo's Blues, Pappo and Alejandro Medina (bass player for Manal and Billy Bond and La Pesada del Rock and Roll) decide to form a new group, but in the absence of a suitable drummer, they travel to Brazil in search of him and find Rolando Castello Junior to form the Aeroblus trio.
They made their debut on January 6, 1977 at the Premier Theater in Buenos Aires with a series of concerts that received negative reviews due to their "lack of rehearsals", a problem that was quickly resolved.
This is how Aeroblus managed to publish his only work. The delay in releasing the album, plus the pressure exerted by the police in those years in Argentina during the Military Dictatorship, made Rolando Castello Junior decide to return and stay in Brazil. Already in 1978, Pappo together with Medina revived Aeroblus, incorporating Claudio Pesavento on keyboards and without Castello, who was replaced by Gonzalo Farrugia. The group appears in Mar del Plata playing songs from the album and some new ones, but it does not prosper despite the good reviews of the time, and Pappo decides to return again with Pappo's Blues.
In May 2012 Aeroblus turned thirty-five years old. In the years 2010 and 2011 he was honored both in Argentina and in Brazil by different bands and musicians: on May 28, 2010, Alejandro Medina performed a tribute concert at 'El teatro' in Flores together with vocalist Chizzo from the group La Renga on guitar replacing the late Pappo and Rolando Castello Junior himself. on drums who came especially from Brazil for the occasion, thirty-three years after the album was released in 1977.
In 2022, "Archivos Secretos - Capturados vivos en Buenos Aires - 1977" is released on vinyl LP, a live compilation album by the Argentine band Aeroblus, with recordings from 1977.
Archivos secretos came from an open tape recording of a rehearsal with the public, the record was saved by the group's drummer, Rolando Castello Junior, who later made a copy on cassette tape, which would be the resulting master for this album. The producer of this album, Sergio Katsuren, confessed that Castello Junior was very demanding with him, asking him that, despite only having a cassette tape as master, the sound should sound as good as possible. In turn Katsuren said that there was more material to make a "Volume II", like a version of "Child in time" by Deep Purple.
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