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(2016) - Ediciones Disconario
Libro
Argentine - Book in Spanish - Format 21 x 21 cm. In illustration opaque paper with 180 coloured / black & white pages / coloured cover.
This is the first part of two volumes which comprise a very detailed work of thorough investigation, as well as interviews with more than 150 protagonists, relevant concerts, documentation imagery and annexes with the artists' trajectory, record anthologies, and the books on the history of Argentine Rock.
U$S 16
(2018) - Ediciones Disconario
Libro
Argentine - Book in Spanish - Format 26 x 16 cm. In printing paper with 400 black & white pages / coloured cover.
A thorough trajectory through the history of the mythological Argentine group and its' members, from The Wild Cats and other City of Rosario (Province of Santa Fé) outfits in which Kay and Moro played, to the very latest catalog re-releases. Featuring many revealing documents (never-seen-before photos & personal letters); exclusive reports; details of the recordings told by the Protagonists themselves, as well as commentaries and reviews of their albums by fellow-Musicians and Journalists (Alfredo Rosso, Claudio Kleiman, Gustavo Montolivo, Miguel Cantilo, Roque Narvaja, Fito Páez, Andrés Calamaro, etc.) who are trustworthy witnesses to a story that those who think they know, will be completely surprised and taken aback about.
U$S 18
(2017) - Praga Ediciones
Libro
Argentine - Book in Spanish - Format 22x 15 cm. In printing paper with 176 black & white pages / coloured cover.
After the publication of “Silencio Marginal: memorias del Rock Argentino” (2014), Lautaro Castro, Maximiliano Ceci and Eduardo Casali intended to go well beyond the foundational stages and boundaries of the local Rock scene, in order to properly investigate a period rich in strong experimentation as occurred during the 70's and early 80's.
José Luis Fernández (La máquina de hacer pájaros), Eduardo Frezza (El Reloj), Osvaldo Favrot (Espíritu), Pomo Lorenzo (Invisible), Juan del Barrio (MIA), Gustavo Moretto (Alas), David Lebón (Seru Giran), Vitico (Riff), and Gustavo Bazterrica (Los abuelos de la nada), were the chosen voices to portray, through a sincere and experiential testimony, a period of musical flourishing, heavily indented by Symphonic Rock, Jazz Rock, Pop Rock, and Hard Rock.
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(2017) - El Encuentro Editorial - Micheaux Editorial
Libro
Argentine - Book in Spanish - Format 17 x 11 cm. In printing paper with 132 black & white pages / coloured cover.
Almendra left its heavy footprint legacy, so that Rock music in Argentina could have its Experimental and Avant-Garde quota through the poetry of Luis Alberto Spinetta and the audacity of that legendary and mythical band, in order to lay the foundations for a new musical aesthetic and fusion that could only be carried forward by true pioneers and references who were in it for the long run. Short-lived, though intense (1968-1970), in 1979 Almendra came back and gifted us with a double live album, as well as a studio LP effort, culminating their story in the year 2009 with five songs played live-in-concert during the "Spinetta y sus bandas eternas" mega-show event, which remained as an everlasting worthy memory of those who boarded that train to the south.
U$S 8
(2021) - Ediciones Disconario
Libro
Argentine - Book in Spanish - Format 15 x 22 cm. In illustration opaque paper with 192 black & white pages / coloured cover.
This book is a substantial introduction for the rebuilding of a criminally neglected chapter within Argentine Rock history. This subgenre generally does not enjoy great relevance in local bibliographies. So, in some way, the authors have intended to shine some visibility on the Symphonic Progressive Rock movement, through 18 representative bands which had big or small impact, but all with great personalities, during the seventies and early eighties’ heyday. Beyond the bands’ individual biographies, the testimonies by some of the main protagonists in each group also stand out.
U$S 16
(2022) - Ediciones Disconario / VIAJERO INMÓVIL Records
Libro
Argentine - Book in Spanish - Format 23 x 15 cm. In illustration opaque paper with 283 black & white pages / coloured cover.
After Almendra's dissolvement, its members decided to take different routes: Luis Alberto Spinetta created Pescado Rabioso, Edelmiro Molinari joined Color Humano, while Emilio Del Guercio and Rodolfo García started a fresh musical career by forming Aquelarre, together with Hugo González Neira and Héctor Starc. It is the intention of all four authors of this book to chronologically tell the journey initiated by this essential, with its very own identity, Progressive Rock band. What we have here is a meticulous description of their discography and key concerts, in addition to the storytelling by its own protagonists and other sources. Also featured is a detailed and acute look by the Argentine Music Press, as well as from around the rest of the world.
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(2021) - Editorial Dunken
Libro
Argentine - Book in Spanish - Format 24 x 16 cm. In illustration opaque paper with 256 black & white pages / coloured cover.
Official biography of the band Arco Iris, formed during the late '60s. It is the product of extensive research conducted by journalist Fabio Scartuchio, who together with the group, compiled in this comprehensively complete publication, the history, photos, testimonies of all members, their music and philosophy (which was extremely new for the time, as was vegetarianism), the practice of yoga, and community life. This pioneering Rock band’s protagonists tell us about their musical beginnings, anecdotes and intimacies of their shows and successes, such as “Mañana Campestre” (1971), which became an anthem for the youth of the seventies, and is considered to be hands down, one of Argentine Rock’s most popular classics.
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(2016) - El Encuentro Editorial - Micheaux Editorial
Libro
Argentine - Book in Spanish - Format 17 x 11 cm. In printing paper with 138 black & white pages / coloured cover.
Although "La Pesada del Rock and Roll" existed only between 1970-1974, its open band policy made it essential to help add to the growth of Rock in Argentina, not only because of the participation of Pappo, Luis Alberto Spinetta and the members of Manal (even though they had already split by then), but for what he represented ideologically with his "in-your-face" attitude of confronting authoritarianism during unstable political moments of the country, with repression and censorship carried out by de facto military governments, as well as the "democratically"-elected government of Juan Domingo Perón, which, when he died while still in office, continued in the same autocratic and brutal vein by his evil minister Jose López Rega, creator of the repressive Triple A paramilitary secret police cell. This research includes interviews with numerous musicians who were actually there.
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(2018) - El Encuentro Editorial - Micheaux Editorial
Libro
Argentine - Book in Spanish - Format 17 x 11 cm. In printing paper with 160 black & white pages / coloured cover.
This first installment in Charly García's history, covers the first 10 years of his musical production career, including his very first bands: Sui Generis, La máquina de hacer pájaros and Seru Gira, as well as his very first solo album: "Yendo de la cama al living." Those who keenly participated in this investigation: Nito Mestre, Leon Gieco, Billy Bond, Maria Rosa Yorio, Raul Porchetto, Rinaldo Rafanelli, Carlos Cutaia, Gustavo Bazterrica, Oscar Moro, Pino Marrone, David Lebón, Willy Iturri, and Cachorro López.
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(2021) - Gourmet Musical Ediciones
Libro
Argentine - Book in Spanish - Format 23 x 15 cm. In printing paper with 216 black & white / coloured cover.
Five decades after his first album with Sui Generis ("Vida" - 1972), Charly continues to show his uninterrupted value within the Argentine and Latin American Rock scenes. He has already written a huge amount of songs about his life, excesses, provocations, records, lyrics of his songs, and concerts. However, this book deals with one of the aspects about which, paradoxically, not much has been written at all: his music.
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(2015) - Ediciones Ruta 2
Libro
Argentine - Book in Spanish - Format 30 x 20 cm. In illustration opaque paper with 345 black & white and coloured pages / black and white cover.
Los Xawks were a bunch of friends who met during the early years of high school. Soon after, they decided to form a band and play Rock music. It is by no means this chronicle's objective to become a history manual of the nineteen sixties, but to recount how the outfit's members developed during those heady days. Our goal is to show how they thought, what they did and the outcome of their recorded works: the songs, starting with all the ones that were recorded for the legendary Argentine Mandioca label, as well as those which as yet remain unreleased.
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(2020) - VIAJERO INMÓVIL Records
Libro
rgentine - Book in Spanish - Format 23 x 15 cm. In illustration opaque paper with 312 black & white pages / coloured cover.
La historia de Crucis es tan rica como su música. Desde muy jóvenes, los integrantes de la banda iniciaron una trayectoria que, tras varios años de perfeccionamiento, alcanzó de repente un lugar de preponderancia. Con sólo dos discos a su haber, Crucis logró llenar teatros y estadios, algo poco habitual dentro de la escena del Rock Progresivo/Sinfónico argentino. El recorrido arrollador, aunque breve, del grupo contó con una legión de fieles seguidores. Para la redacción de este libro, los autores entrevistaron a los músicos que alguna vez formaron parte de Crucis, recogiendo citas de entrevistas a terceros, así como a amigos cercanos, responsables de distintas funciones dentro del management, la carrera y la temporalidad de la banda. También se buscaron datos de la prensa general y otros testimonios relevantes a la historia del cuarteto. Se realizó un arduo trabajo de campo para recopilar toda la información, artículos, publicaciones, entrevistas de época, material gráfico y otros elementos, todos extraídos de los medios disponibles. También hay un extenso análisis musical de toda la producción musical de los muchachos, numerosas fotografías, carteles y otras referencias importantes.
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(2019) - El Encuentro Editorial
Libro
Argentine - Book in Spanish - Format 17 x 11 cm. In printing paper with 170 black & white pages / coloured cover.
When everything was nothing, the beginning was nothing. The history of Argentine Rock wasn’t born from nothing. Though it exists thanks to Rock & Roll, Jazz and Blues, it would not be the same without Tango or local Folk Music. With a prelude by Miguel Grimberg, this initiatory book tells the history of music on this continent, beginning with the African slaves’ arrival in 1500, their syncretism with European and native cultures, all the way until the first formative years of Argentine Rock, offering the necessary information to motivate the reading of the "Rock de Acá" Book Collection.
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(2020) - Mondo Rabioso Ediciones
Libro
Argentine - Book in Spanish - Format 22 x 15 cm. In printing paper with 313 black & white pages / coloured cover.
This is the second book authored by Sergio Coscia, featuring more than 200 chronicles. It includes pertinent, painful and uncomfortable reflections on political, social and cultural issues, as well as experiences and characters drawn from the exciting world of the “Mondo Rabioso” record store, which beats in the very heart of the City of Buenos Aires' downtown sector.
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(2010) - Caja Negra Editora
Libro
Argentine - Book in Spanish - Format 20 x 14 cm. In printing paper with 224 black & white pages / coloured cover. Reedition in Spanish 2015.
From the Melody Maker, The Wire, Spin, and Rolling Stone columns, as well as in all the books that he published, Simon Reynolds set himself to deconstruct Pop Music's discourse by submitting it to an ideological dissection, which had nevertheless not impeded him from abandoning his mundane pleasures. The language suspension of Noise, the oceanic-mystic regressions of Acid Rock, the preponderance of the timbre/chromatism/texture triad over and above the melody and the message in Post-Rock and Electronic Music, represent a Psychedelic continuum which traverses the history of Pop Music.
U$S 14
(2018) - Estudio Suri
Libro
Argentine - Book in Spanish - Format 21 x 15 cm. In printing paper with 230 black & white pages / coloured cover.
Under a very detailed compendium of chapters wrapped-up in many reflections and interviews, there is an evident effort in this book to understand these practices, speeches and sensitivities, by actually discussing them. In these necessary and essential pages, the gathering effects of the melancholic and sonorous sounds of the bellows, together with the Marshall Speakers' distortions, the other-worldly vocals of Luis Alberto Spinetta, the wine-flavoured voice of Roberto Goyeneche, the slap by Charles Baudelaire, lyrics that both denounce and help to fall in love, are all swirling in an endless, yet delightfully literary effect. In short, the whole traditional urban district with all its' typical successes, errors and contradictions. New extended edition.
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(2015) - Ediciones Disconario
Libro
Argentine - Book in Spanish - Format 21 x 21 cm. in illustration opaque paper with 180 black & white pages / coloured cover.
This is an absolutely necessary complement, accounting the data and dispersed commentaries about album releases, concerts, opinions about and by Litto Nebbia. What we get for this brand new edition are exclusive answers by Litto, as well as by the multitude of artists he has shared his works with during the past fifty years, annexes with accolades, collaborations, and the many productions for his own Melopea record label. "El bohemio va" permits us to appreciate the Nebbia universe in all its real magnitude and glory, perceive all his many different textures and colours, and finally attain a compact and consummate vision of all his rich legacy and labours in their entirety.
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(2016) - Gourmet Musical Ediciones
Libro
Argentine - Book in Spanish - Format 23 x 15 cm. In printing paper with 240 black & white pages.
During the winter of 1976, a few months after a new military coup d'etat, the city of Buenos Aires dawned one day to see its streets papered in ads heralding the arrival of a new magazine called "Expreso Imaginario." Founded by the renowned local journalists Jorge Pistocchi and Pipo Lernoud, "Expreso Imaginario" not only became a sort of haven if you will, but also laid the foundation for he nascent specialized journalism. The publishing of "Estación Imposible" is an excellent piece of bibliographic news for those who are interested in learning about the past of Argentine Rock, as well as the restless readers curious about the history of journalism in this blessed country.
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(2021) - Guerrear Producciones
Libro + CD
Argentine - Book in Spanish - Format 24 x 17 cm. In printing paper with 240 black & white pages. Includes 1 CD with music and poetry.
InterINdisciplinary conceptual work which merges music, poetry and images. However, it does nothing more than highlight the endless stupidities that we take for granted as being normalities, and which condition our actions, our thoughts, and even our feelings. Agustín Guerrero Quinteto’s music is accompanied by poetry written by Pablo Marchetti and video art contributions by courtesy of Gonzalo Duro. The book is organized according to each of the fifteen pieces that make up “Estupidez” (Stupidity), and each segment is comprised by the “explanation” of the piece, the poem, an image of the visual intervention, and score.
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(1957) - Caja Negra Editora
Libro
Argentine - Book in Spanish - Format 20 x 14 cm. In printing paper with 224 black & white pages / coloured cover. Reedition in Spanish 2015.
The publication in 1957 of his classic book "On The Road" provided Jack Kerouac with a sudden fame, the administration of which would keep him busily occupied almost until his demise. A collateral effect of this vivid renown were the assignments he received from different magazines. The majority of the articles, essays and brief works of fiction included in this book, were originally published in magazines such as Esquire, Playboy, Evergreen Review, or Escapade.
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(2020) - Ediciones Disconario / Colección Portarretratos
Libro
Argentina - Libro en Español - Formato 23 x 15 cm. en papel de imprenta con 200 páginas blanco y negro / tapa a color.
Vox Dei is an essential chapter in the history of Argentine Rock, offering extraordinary work through many albums. You would have to make an endless list of favourites, as they're all incredible. The contribution they have made from the City of Quilmes and the identity provided to create a way of making Rock, is unique. This book reflects a great chunk of the band's lengthy trajectory with comments and anecdotes from its members, as well as many other musicians, who also shared the group's musical path.
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(2022) - El Encuentro Editorial
Libro
Argentine - Book in Spanish - Format 17 x 11 cm. In printing paper with 201 black & white pages / coloured cover.
Published in 1995, "Historias del Rock de Acá - Primers Generación", compiles biographical interviews undertaken by Ezequiel Ábalos with leading Argentine Rock musicians, who were included in the "ROCK DE ACÁ" program on the "ROCK & POP" FM radio station, during 1993 and 1994. This book includes quotes from legendary luminaries such as Billy Bond, Pajarito Zaguri, Moris, Javier Martínez, Alfredo Toth, Alejandro Medina, Oscar Moro, Pomo, Claudio Gabis, and Willy Quiroga.
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(2015) - Gourmet Musical Ediciones
Libro
Argentine - Book in Spanish - Format 23 x 15 cm. in printing paper with 192 black & white pages / coloured cover.
This represents a reflexive approach to the history and present of Jazz in Argentina, through interviews held with musicians of different walks of life, generations and styles. The book tackles discussions that link popular music with processes of social significance, miscegenation and identity, without getting round to the recent debates held concerning local "Afro" culture and the spot it occupies in the so-called Black Atlantic.
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(2024) - Vademecum
Libro
Argentine - Book in Spanish - Format 21 x 14 cm. In printing paper with 100 black & white pages / coloured cover.
On March 9, 1988, two amateur journalists managed to gather for a report on the members of Serú Girán. A secret local meeting in the neighborhood of Almagro that could be observed like the beginning of the quartet's return in 1992. Here is García, Moro, Lebón and Aznar talking about the beginning of the group in Búzios and the abrupt separation in March 82; the hermaphrodite voices, Grinbank and the masters of their captures; Billy Bond and Music Hall; the soloist albums, the days of Pedro at Berklee, the latest video clip and the hubies spent with Serú Girán in the midst of the growing national rock boom in Latin America.
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(2022) - Ediciones Disconario / Colección Dicho y Hecho
Libro
Argentine - Book in Spanish - Format 24 x 12cm. In printing paper with 108 black & white pages / coloured cover.
These testimonies, uttered by the central characters themselves, shed light in this book, not only on a meeting witnessed by very few lucky people, but also on the history, personalities, music, philosophy, and legacy of legendary Argentine Power Trio, Manal. Its members: Javier Martínez, Claudio Gabis and Alejandro Medina possessed the enormous doses of audacity and talent, that were necessary for the creation of a new genre, which blossomed into Blues in Spanish.
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(2019) - El Encuentro Editorial
Libro
Argentine - Book in Spanish - Format 17 x 11 cm. In printing paper with 172 black & white pages / coloured cover.
“En el país de la libertad” (In the country of freedom), encompasses the first 16 years of León Gieco in Buenos Aires, since his arrival from Cañada Rosquín, until the release of his iconic “De Ushuaia a La Quiaca” album, including all the records he released through Argentine music label, “Music Hall” during this period. With Folk and Rock influences, right from the start he started writing songs which highlighted the essential values of life, such as using freedom as a flag, struggle and vindication of the people, by becoming inspired by people and characters hailing from the many provinces of Argentina.
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(2017) - El Encuentro Editorial - Micheaux Editorial
Libro
Argentine - Book in Spanish - Format 17 x 11 cm. In printing paper with 150 black & white pages / coloured cover.
They were first known as Los Wilds Cats back in 1963, in the image and likeness of local Argentine outfit Los Teen Tops. In 1965, with Litto Nebbia as their lead singer, they were re-baptized as Los Gatos Salvajes. With a more Beatlesque type-of-sound, they were hired by the television programme "Escala Musical" and recorded a long play featuring a collection of tracks penned by Nebbia himself. Finally, in 1967, Ciro Fogliatta and Litto, together with Alfredo Toht, Oscar Moro, and Kay Galiffi, reassembled the band and called themselves Los Gatos. This formation recorded the mythical "La Balsa" (by Litto Nebbia and Tanguito) and "Ayer nomás" (by Moris and Pipo Lernoud), a 45 RPM disc that became the founding iconic pillar of the Rock movement in Argentina. After recording 3 albums right up until their first separation, and with the addition of Pappo in 1969, they became the most perfect transition between sixties' Beat and early seventies' Rock.
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(2019) - Colección Vademécum
Libro
Argentine - Book in Spanish - Format 22 x 15 cm. In printing paper with 200 black & white pages / coloured cover.
The human and musical ecosystem that orbited – and still does – around the immortal genius of Luis Alberto Spinetta: brothers, musicians, luthiers, managers, friends, his dentist (schoolmate and recipient of a famous song), his doctor, and his historical assistant. This choral story is built from interviews that provide a kaleidoscopic image of one of the most transcendental Argentine artists of all time...
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(2021) - Colección Vademécum
Libro
Argentine - Book in Spanish - Format 22 x 15 cm. In printing paper with 200 black & white pages / coloured cover.
“Lo único comparable a escuchar la música de Spinetta es hablar sobre Spinetta”.
The idea that seems to run through each page of Luisito Volume 2 is that the only thing comparable to listening to Spinetta is talking about him. Like a Spinettean alchemist, Kasparian does what’s needed to recover scattered fragments -seemingly connected by an invisible thread- of Luis Alberto Spinetta’s life & works, via statements by a wide range of beings who sometime and somewhere, crossed paths with Luis: in person, by phone, Zoom, or Whatsapp. Who cares?! Only 1 thing matters: talking about Spinetta.
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(2017) - El Encuentro Editorial - Micheaux Editorial
Libro
Argentine - Book in Spanish - Format 17 x 11 cm. In printing paper with 138 black & white pages / coloured cover.
It happened during the mid-sixties in the City of Buenos Aires' district of Barrio Norte, inside a basement locale known as "La Cueva de Pasarotus" (later to be known simply as "La Cueva", where several young people who had been born in the 1940's started to meet and converge, as they were commonly attracted by Jazz. They soon attempted to gradually change the musical trends of the joint towards Beat and Rock. Within this group of pioneers were Moris, Pajarito Zaguri, Sandro, Billy Bond, Pipo Lernoud, Tanguito, Litto Nebbia, and Javier Martínez, who gave birth to the idea of composing Rock and Blues songs sung in Spanish, to reflect the reality of what they were living through in their everyday lives, in a country ruled by a military regime. After participating in a musical experience with Moris in Villa Gesell and being part of La Banda de Gastón, in 1967, drummer and singer Javier Martinez met Claudio Gabis, the guitarist of Bubblin Awe, and Alejandro Medina, bass player with Los Seasons, with whom he formed Manal, the founding Rock band in Argentina.
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(1999) -
Revista
Argentine - Magazine in Spanish - Format 33,5 x 23,5 cm., in special paper with more than 50 black & white / coloured pages.
Interview with Peter Hammill, Steve Howe, Alan White. History behind Alan Parsons Project, Mike & the mechanics 6 and Porcupine Tree. Includes CD. Information about J-Tull Dot Com, Liquid Tension, The Ladder tour, Rajaz (Camel) News and CD reviews.
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(2000) -
Revista
Argentine - Magazine in Spanish - Format 33,5 x 23,5 cm., in special paper with more than 50 black & white / coloured pages.
Interview with P.O. Seather (Zello), Yoke Shire members, Roger Hodgson, Gabriela, etc. History behind La Máquina de Hacer Pájaros, A curious feeling, The Wall , E.L.O., Gryphon, etc. Information about Chaneton, Nexus, Gray Lady Down, Ayreon, Transatlantic, etc. News and CD reviews.
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(2000) -
Revista
Argentine - Magazine in Spanish - Format 33,5 x 23,5 cm., in special paper with more than 50 black & white / coloured pages.
History of all his records. Discography. Chronological Information. Information of all the tracks. History after Yes until the present.
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(2001) -
Revista
Argentine - Magazine in Spanish - Format 33,5 x 23,5 cm., in special paper with more than 50 black & white / coloured pages.
Interview with Andrew Latimer, Guy Le Blanc, Steve Wilson (Porcupine Tree) and Franz Di Cioccio (PFM). History behind Camel, Renaissance and Porcupine Tree. Information about Camel and Jon Lord. News and CD reviews.
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(2005) -
Revista
Argentine - Magazine in Spanish - Format 33,5 x 23,5 cm., in special paper with 100 black & white pages / coloured cover.
Interview with Bauer, Amagrama, Espíritu, Nick Magnus, Mark Nelly, etc. History behind Mike Oldfield, Marillion, Dream theater, Seru Giran, Contraluz, Eloy, etc. Information about the Rock in Oposition movement, Atempo, The woman in the Progressive Rock, etc. News and CD reviews.
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(2006) -
Revista
Argentine - Magazine in Spanish - Format 33,5 x 23,5 cm., in special paper with 100 black & white pages / coloured cover.
Interview with Frost, Steve Lukather (Toto), Echolyn, Pablo el enterrador, Roine Stolt, etc. History behind Rush, Soft Machine, etc. Information about Latin American Rock (60’s/70’s), etc. News and CD reviews.
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(2007) -
Revista
Argentine - Magazine in Spanish - Format 33,5 x 23,5 cm., in special paper with 90 black & white pages / coloured cover.
Interview with Paul Rodgers, Daniel Andreoli (Bubu), Patrick Moraz, The musical box, Erik Norlander, etc. History behind Thick as a brick (Jethro Tull), Brain salad surgery (E.L & P.), King Crimson, Niacin, etc. Information about The lyrics of Progressive Rock, Marillion, Fish, etc. News and CD reviews.
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(2017) - Editorial Aguilar
Libro
Argentine - Book in Spanish - Format 23 x 16 cm. In printing paper with 352 black & white pages / coloured cover.
Passionate and many times controversial, Litto Nebbia tells everything. It is now fifty years since "La balsa", and the Argentine Rock pioneer, it must be said, was the very first to have no prejudice whatsoever with any musical genre, by merging Rock with Jazz, Brazilian Popular Music, Folklore, Bolero, and encouraging uncharted, never-before-explored musical territories. As unclassifiable as its author, "Mi banda sonora" threads, just like a soundtrack should, varying scenes from his own life history, scenes from his abundant songs and albums, his friends, his favourite movies and composers, his endless tours, and his own personal opinions. And together with all of these, thousands of memoirs, dreams and passions turn this book into a labour of love that is well-projected and directed into the future.
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(2017) - El Encuentro Editorial - Micheaux Editorial
Libro
Argentine - Book in Spanish - Format 17 x 11 cm. In printing paper with 136 black & white pages / coloured cover.
Miguel, I do not know why I started thinking about him; could be that I did not have time to understand everything at the time; Miguel, a really fertile poet; he arrived with two songs he wrote all over again in order to live again, you left glory behind and gifted us with history through your gypsy compass; you took me by the hand to the small glory of playing with THE abuelo. Miguel, will we meet again? it's hard to know... If you had something to say you said it twice, and Miguel had a good fist, and he knew who to floor, who to gift, who to forget and live, and you taught us all a little sense of the Palermo Dancer's friendship, Miguel. "With Abuelo" - (Andrés Calamaro)
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(2016) - Ediciones Disconario / Vázquez Mazzini Editores
Libro
Argentine - Book in Spanish - Format 23 x 16 cm. In printing paper with 184 black & white pages / coloured cover.
Miguel Cantilo occupies a privileged place among all the pioneers of Rock sung in Spanish. His emblematic compositions turned Miguel into one of the most important Argentine Rock songwriters. As it introduces the readers to previously unpublished texts showing the genesis of Cantilo's works, his big Pedro y Pablo success, the protagonist of Catalina Bahía, as well as exclusive autobiographical notes, this book is much more than a rigorous study of his lucid and exquisite oeuvre.
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(2017) - El Encuentro Editorial - Micheaux Editorial
Libro
Argentine - Book in Spanish - Format 17 x 11 cm. In printing paper with 144 black & white pages / coloured cover.
This is a book inhabited by the very vivid and very real characters, who tell their own story. They are the real personages and places - La Cueva. La Perla. Villa Gesell - where what we know today as Rock de Acá (Rock from Here), was originally conceived. These protagonists, who were of course very young back in those formative years, remember with absolute detail all those mythological adventures. And together they build the story of Mauricio Birabent (Moris), the poet or prophet of that incredibly vibrant moment. Moris taught us to sing Rock in Spanish. To have a Rocker attitude and the necessary independence that any Rocker needs, to keep well away from all the powers-that-be, the police, the entertainment industry (which was corporately embodied back then in what was known as "Escala Musical"), and, alas, to keep a respectable distance from formal and polite education. In a nutshell, he taught us all how to think for ourselves.
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(2017) - El Encuentro Editorial - Micheaux Editorial
Libro
Argentine - Book in Spanish - Format 17 x 11 cm. In printing paper with 152 black & white pages / coloured cover.
Highly-talented, self-taught, seminal, and influential guitarist, who was influenced himself by the greatest earthling players in the business, who along with his lyrics and very particular, original and personal way of singing, set the precedent for Heavy Rock sung in Spanish. Pappo wrote songs that represent a lineage of classics which will never rust, and continue to echo and resonate in the more Rocking sectors of our our pulses. The musicians who were interviewed for this research are the following: Pomo, Alberto Abuelo, Pipo Lernoud, Claudio Gabis, Billy Bond, Héctor Starc, Daniel Ripoll, Moro, Litto Nebbia, David Lebon, Black Amaya, Machi, Fanta, Alejandro Medina, Rolando Castello Jr., Vitico, and Pappo himself.
U$S 8
(2019) - El Encuentro Editorial
Libro
Argentine - Book in Spanish - Format 17 x 11 cm. In printing paper with 172 black & white pages / coloured cover.
Pedro y Pablo burst onto the Argentine Rock scene right at its genesis, contributing a disruptive look at Argentines’ daily lives, with "La marcha de la bronca", a song that marked the course of their extensive career. Miguel Cantilo’s sharp pen and Jorge Durietz’ harmonious presence were the ideal counterpoint with which they established an iconic acoustic and visceral sound that defined their first album in 1970.
U$S 8
(2022) - El Encuentro Editorial
Libro
Argentine - Book in Spanish - Format 17 x 11 cm. In printing paper with 209 black & white pages / coloured cover.
Released in 2004, the "Pequeñas Anécdotas del Rock de Acá" book compiles together a series of tales about the history of Argentine Rock that took place between 1966 and 1975, and told by the actual musicians who were the original protagonists of its creation. A collection of endless anecdotes that reflect the initial stages that birthed an entire musical movement, which marked the lives of thousands of young people, during incredibly dark times.
U$S 8
(2018) - Gourmet Musical Ediciones
Libro
Argentine - Book in Spanish - Format 23 x 15 cm. In printing paper with 192 black & white pages / coloured cover.
This business of Post-War European and American societies is not only a behind-the-scenes backdrop, but the very principle that articulates the attempt to understand a broad and flexible set of musical manifestations, that would contribute to the metamorphosis of Pop (Rock?), which already accumulates six decades of accelerated evolution. From Doo Woop and the Fast Song to Krautrock and Swedish Prog, from Czechoslovakian Underground to Argentine Rock, from the European Free Jazz Improvisation to Post Industrial, from the British Counterculture to German Electronics, this compilation aims to trace a modest fresco -made of partial revelations of ephemeral triumphs and legendary failures-.
U$S 18
(2016) - I.P.
Libro
Argentina - Book in Spanish - Format 21 x 15 cm. In printing paper with 257 black & white pages / coloured cover.
History of Argentine Rock from its genesis and evolution all the way up to the present, making a brief, decade-by-decade description, reviewing the fundamental bands, their records and concerts. From the very first moment, specialist historians and journalists have not been able to agree on which specific moment actually triggered the very beginning of Rock in Argentina. The book itself tries to find its' concrete and exact starting point. Once this has been achieved, it tells the complete story. New edition 2021.
U$S 15
(2009 / 201) - I.P.
Libro + CD
Argentine - Book in Spanish - Format 24 x 17 cm. In printing paper with 320 black & white pages / coloured cover. 2nd Edition.
When everything was nothing, nothing was the beginning, but the history of "Rock de acá" is not born out of nothing; it exists thanks to Jazz, Blues and Rock & Roll, and it would not be the same without local Tango and Folk. This story begins long before "La Balsa", as part of a new generation of inspired young people born in the 1940's, who were connected with the international cultural and political movements of those times, and who helped to mold and change the way of Argentine people's thinking in general. Between 1992 and 2015, Ezequiel Abalos interviewed the pioneers of "Rock de acá", in order to unravel the true origins of Rock in Argentina. With Miguel Grinberg's prelude, this expanded reprint includes a CD with all of the book's interviews conducted with forty musicians and producers who were there.
U$S 24
(2019) - El Encuentro Editorial
Libro
Argentine - Book in Spanish - Format 17 x 11 cm. In printing paper with 250 black & white pages / coloured cover.
Updated version, reduced to pocket edition format of the “Rock de Acá – 1 – The first years” book. This volume covers the early years up to 1970, including stories told by its own protagonists.
U$S 9
(2019) - El Encuentro Editorial
Libro
Argentine - Book in Spanish - Format 17 x 11 cm. In printing paper with 262 black & white pages / coloured cover.
Updated version, reduced to a pocket edition format of the "Rock de Acá - 2" book. The second of this volume (translated as “Rock From Here”) features Argentine artists who were part of the 1970/1975 period, telling the story of their own music in their own words
U$S 9
(2023) - El Encuentro Editorial
Libro + CD
Argentine - Book in Spanish - Format 24 x 17 cm. In printing paper with 456 black & white pages / black & white cover.
The third volume of Rock de Acá is the history of rock in Argentina that took place between 1975 and 1980, told by its protagonists and personally interviewed by Ezequiel Ábalos. With a preface by Daniel Ripoll, this audio book includes an mp3 CD with the testimonies of more than 70 musicians, journalists and producers of the time. Turning to the testimony of those who were part of a cultural movement of a glorious epic, despite living through the cruelest political moment in our history.
U$S 24
(2014) - Editorial Punto de encuentro
Libro
Argentine - Book in Spanish - Format 22 x 15 cm. In printing paper with 176 black & white pages / coloured cover.
During the mid-sixties, the appropriation of Anglo-Saxon music consumption, combined with the sense of belonging to local roots, as well as the sociopolitical and cultural context of the country and the world as a whole, defined the patterns of a new musical expression genre. What has been contributed here in this book is a look to enrich what we call the History Of Argentine Rock, so as to discover previously inadvertent details, in order to rebuild environments and characters which are about to be swallowed up forever by the thunderous silence of memory loss. The musicians in question are: Rodolfo García, Emilio Del Guercio, Claudio Gabis, Willy Quiroga, Kubero Diaz, Black Amaya, Ciro Fogliatta, Héctor Starc, and Jorge Durietz, who provide a sincere, deep and experiential testimony about the emergence of Rock culture in Argentina.
U$S 0
(2017) - Gourmet Musical Ediciones
Libro
Argentine - Book in Spanish - Format 23 x 15 cm. In printing paper with 136 black & white pages / coloured cover.
Luis Alberto Spinetta was much more than a Rock musician. It is very difficult to find negative commentaries or criticisms in reference to him as a person or his work, and he always obtained an enormous respect from the public, the press and his artistic peers, as if he were a special, almost sacred being. For many, he set some very high standards, in terms of the impeccably and professionally ethical ways in which he conducted himself as regards to all aspects of his personal life. This book on one hand maintains that Spinetta has been transformed into a mythical character by his very own audience. On the other hand, that part of the secret of his unique poetry and what it generates to us all lies in the construction -whether intentional or not- of a particular mythology that addresses existential questions and attempts to appease the real anguish generated by the separation between man and the cosmos.
U$S 27
(2018) - El Encuentro Editorial
Libro
Argentine - Book in Spanish - Format 17 x 11 cm. In printing paper with 130 black & white pages / coloured cover.
Right after Almendra split in 1970, Luis Alberto Spinetta recorded songs for what would be: "Spinettalandia y sus amigos" and then ravels to Europe. On his return, he founded Pescado Rabioso and under that name, three albums were released: "Desatormentándonos", "Pescado 2" and "Artaud". In 1974, he formed Invisible and recorded three albums: "Invisible", "Durazno Sangrando" and "El jardín de los presentes." After recording "A 18' del sol" as a soloist and "Only Love Can Sustain" (in English in the US - also going solo), he successfully brought Almendra back together again in 1979, and in 1980, he formed Spinetta Jade. Credulity encompassed the prolific seventies' phase of this musician, poet, and artist, who with his talent and genius, gave credibility to Rock from here.
U$S 8
(2022) - Gourmet Musical Ediciones
Libro
Argentine - Book in Spanish - Format 23 x 15 cm. In printing paper with 200 black & white / coloured cover.
In the early nineties, somewhere in the burning Californian desert, a band called Kyuss led a move that originated a new musical genre that combined Heavy Rock and Psychedelia, with high levels of distortion, and which they baptized as "Stoner Rock." Meanwhile, at almost the very same time, in Buenos Aires, a group of musicians formed the band "Los Natas", who took that raw sound as a direct influence. They were the beacon of their generation: They encouraged many others to join this self-generated adventure, becoming one of the most famous groups in Argentina. This book tells how that seed, literally planted in the middle of the desert, flourished and bore fruit in our own territory.
U$S 27
(2012) - Ediciones Disconario
Libro
Argentine - Book in Spanish - Format 21 x 21 cm. in illustration opaque paper with 180 black & white pages / coloured cover.
Ticher de luz, Una guía Spinettiana originates from the profound admiration, respect and recognition that the figure of Luis Alberto Spinetta inspires as one of the most iconic exponents of Argentine Rock. This work does not attempt to disembowel the origins nor dive in quest for the meaning behind his songs' lyrics, as these tasks have already been marvelously and lovingly undertaken by other authors.
U$S 16
(2017) - Colección Vademécum
Libro
Argentine - Book in Spanish - Format 20 x 14 cm. In printing paper with 200 black & white pages - illustration coloured paper / coloured cover. Expanded Edition 2022.
On the afternoon of May 24, 1976, Argentine foursome Invisible entered the local CBS studios, located on Paraguay Street #1500 in downtown Buenos Aires, to record their third long player. By the end of that year, the group would cease to exist. If Invisible is perhaps the most valued band in Spinetta's career, "El jardín de los presentes" is the culminating point of a brief but intense discography work. In eight songs (many of them became local scene stalwart classics), Spinetta condenses a part of his cosmogony and lays the foundations for his immediate future as a solo artist, as well as fronting Spinetta Jade. Martín Graziano reconstructs with remarkable journalistic and music-loving expertise all the episodes that went through the gestation and impact of the appearance of this record at the end of 1976. A tiny but definitive period of time during which Luis Alberto Spinetta, Carlos Machi Rufino, Héctor Pomo Lorenzo, and Tomás Gubistch recorded a key album in the history of Argentine Popular Music from the last half century.
U$S 19
(2013) - Ediciones Disconario
Libro
Argentine - Book in Spanish - Format 21 x 21 cm. in illustration opaque paper with 180 black & white pages / coloured cover.
Un dios aparte - Tras los pasos de Charly García originates from the profound admiration, respect and recognition that the figure of Charly García inspires as the biggest popular exponent of Argentine Rock of any era, a creative process which is already approaching its fiftieth anniversary. Daniel Chirom (author of the Charly García book) and Sergio Marchi (author of the No digas nada book) have come up with some very interesting insights about Charly's life.
U$S 16
(2013) - Ciclo 3 Ediciones
Libro
Argentine - Book in Spanish - Format 21 x 15 cm. in printing paper with 184 black & white / coloured cover & photos.
Between May and September of 2012 Rubens Vitale (Donvi) was interviewed by renowned Argentine Music Journalist Pablo Arias, with whom he shared the ideas which animated and impacted all of his existence as a political leader, trade unionist, point of reference in Argentina for the self-management of musical production, and professor. His project is to pour all of these experiences in a book aimed at the youth. Unfortunately he wasn't able to bring it to a conclusion, as he sadly passed away on October 27. Donvi was an excellent exhibitor, as well as a vast creator of ideas, and possessed a very particular method which combined timings, spaces, and collection of topics, that somehow all finally converged and combined together to flow into a central proposal.
U$S 17
(2015) - Gourmet Musical Ediciones
Libro
Argentine - Book in Spanish - Format 23 x 15 cm. in printing paper with 224 black & white / coloured cover.
Miguel Grinberg, music critic and poet, as well as a specialist in generational themes and counter-cultural movements, was able to nail down in the pages of Buenos Aires daily newspaper "La Opinión" a craftsmanship of untamed expression, with particular emphasis on the literary proposals of that specific period's Argentine Rock movement. Among many other issues, Seru Giran's debut, Almendra's reunion, the numerous Rock Festivals of those times, MIA's activities, Aquelarre's experiences, Luis Alberto Spinetta and León Gieco's adventures while abroad, etc, are magnificently covered in accurate detail-like manner.
U$S 25
(2021) - Gourmet Musical Ediciones
Libro
Argentine - Book in Spanish - Format 23 x 15 cm. In printing paper with 248 black & white / coloured cover.
This book evidences the multiple facets of the generational change of Jazz happening in Argentina, which is immersed in the ever-changing political and social context that frames and promotes it: The original compositions, new authors, their interaction with Tango and Rock, indie labels, urban spaces, growing female presence, streaming, modern broadcasting, and listening habits. These are substantial parts of a body that is in permanent evolution and creativity, which for the very first time, flow together into a text that cross-examines and analyzes them with an integrating look.
U$S 25
(2023) - Vademecum
Libro
Argentine - Book in Spanish - Format 22,5 x 13,5 cm. In printing paper with 126 black & white / coloured / coloured cover.
Compelled by his love for a certain long play, the plastic artist, graphic designer and writer, Fidel Sclavo, organized an in-depth, close-up overview of French poet, playwright and essayist Artaud (who passed away sometime during the mid-20th century) and Artaude (an iconic totem of Argentine popular culture during the last few decades of the 20th century.) Sclavo's drift and particular, freehand-type of prose, finds real treasures (bonds, cross-inspirations, quotes) and delivers a new, foreign, devoid of conventionalisms' look and listen, throughout 37 minutes of rustless "Spinettean" glory.
U$S 19
(2014) - Gourmet Musical Ediciones
Libro
Argentine - Book in Spanish - Format 23 x 15 cm. in printing paper with 400 black & white / coloured cover.
This first volume kicks off with the analysis of a couple of seminal records, which were released during the iconic 1967 "Summer of Love": "Sergeant Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band", by The Beatles and "The Piper at the Gates of Dawn", by Pink Floyd. The multiple transformations that Progressive Rock endured all the way until its' final decay and loss of influence, started with the transitioning years from Prog to Psychedelia (1967 / 1968). Through three extensive essays, the book approaches the stories behind some of the most important and definitive bands of the Progressive genre: Yes, Pink Floyd and Emerson, Lake and Palmer.
U$S 35
(2022) - Gourmet Musical Ediciones
Libro
Argentine - Book in Spanish - Format 23 x 15 cm. In printing paper with 480 black & white / coloured cover.
This second tome of the Social History of British Progressive Rock seeks to answer certain questions. Beginning with the transformation of the Folk Revival into Rock, it continues with the mechanisms that made a certain British-sounding Pop of the mid-sixties, The Beatles included, a force of immeasurable proportions. Along the way, the author rediscovers the forgotten traditions of Music Hall, Street Balladry, Pantomime, and Varieté, as well as the stubborn English urge to cling to whatever would be out of fashion. The book also convokes to a discussion between Modernity and Nostalgia, the terms of which, far from being opposite to one another, conspire to cook up the plot that will eventually weave into the style of posterior Progressive Rock.
U$S 36
(2018) - El Encuentro Editorial
Libro
Argentine - Book in Spanish - Format 17 x 11 cm. In printing paper with 166 black & white pages / coloured cover.
In order to compile the story of a band, there is nothing better than telling it through the narration of its' protagonists; especially if that band is Vox Dei, who, right from their inception, made it very clear that they were coming to make history in the Argentine Rock Music scene. Thanks to the outfit's first album, "Caliente", and the conceptual work based on the Bible, "La Biblia según Vox Dei", the band helped Argentine Rock gain universal membership, appeal and credibility. As Rock and Blues cultists, they created true Rock Anthems, which today are worshiped and re-covered by the new generations.
U$S 8
(2016) - Gourmet Musical Ediciones
Libro
Argentine - Book in Spanish - Format 23 x 15 cm. In printing paper with 352 black & white / coloured cover.
For many readers, Pipo Lernoud is the real ideologist behind Argentine Rock. He founded emblematic magazines depicting this movement, such as Expreso Imaginario, Canta Rock and La Mano. He was one of the pioneering forces behind Organic Agriculture and wandered dozens of stages, scenes and settings in order to recite his own poetic works. It is through his trove of diaries, letters, poems, songs, articles, and postings that "Yo no estoy aquí" reveals the embryonic origins and growing pains of the Alternative Culture: its' social and political coming of age from the sixties up to the present.
U$S 27