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Melopea Discos celebrates 50 years of Argentine rock with the remastered editions of the complete discography of Los Gatos, after 25 years of absence in record stores. After spending 15 years out of the market, and to mark the half-century existence of these anthological records, the band members themselves have decided to publish the complete discography. Remastered by Los Gatos.
Beat Nº 1 is the fourth studio album by the Argentine group Los Gatos, released in 1969 by the RCA Vik label. For this album, the band of Litto Nebbia incorporates a young guitarist, still practically unknown, Pappo, who would print a more bluesy and rocky flavor to the group, especially in the following album, 1970's Rock De La Mujer Perdida (LPPR 018LP). A fluid eclecticism plays throughout the album: the beat, Beatles-esque and melodic rock, psych, and the edgy blues, partly because of the incorporation of Pappo, that results in a more determined hard rock. Adding to this the inspirational journey from Nebbia to New York, the new songs denote an evident evolutionary change that goes through the speed mod of "Home", the density blues creeping in "Escúchame, Alúmbrame", and the very psychedelic "Out Of The Law". The Moro-Toth base is full-bodied and comfortable between Cyrus and Pappo; the voice of Litto sounds much harder and mature. There is an interesting exploration of the stereo possibilities (the battery completely thrown for the left channel, for example). The album closes with the extensive "Out Of Law" theme that foreshadows the change of style of Los Gatos; the band was beginning to abandon beat music and psychedelic pop, to delve into more robust and complex.
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Melopea Discos celebrates 50 years of Argentine rock with the remastered editions of the complete discography of Los Gatos, after 25 years of absence in record stores. After spending 15 years out of the market, and to mark the half-century existence of these anthological records, the band members themselves have decided to publish the complete discography. Remastered by Los Gatos.
En Vivo Y En Estudio consists of material recorded between 1970 and 1971 that remained unpublished until 1987. As its name indicates, it is composed of one side recorded in studio, without the intervention of Pappo, with Toth on guitar and Nebbia on bass. The second side of the original edition contained songs recorded live on December 4, 1970 at the Teatro Odeón in Buenos Aires. At the beginning of 1969, Los Gatos separated momentarily. For nine months, all members of the band, with the exception of Nebbia, traveled around the United States, getting to know the local music, listening to the "greats of the moment" and even recording a simple with an American singer, unpublished. In the interim, Nebbia began his solo career, filming the movie The Strange Long Haired and releasing his first solo LP. Los Gatos would return to the following year with Beat Nº1 (LPPR 017LP), with Pappo in the place of Kay. This album clearly shows the two styles: the melodic of Litto (in "Dream And Run") and the rocker that imposed Pappo ("Home"). In the middle of 1970, Pappo left the group to form his own band. Nebbia would then play bass and Toth took the place of the distant guitarist. "We are making another sound to the whole," they anticipated. Nevertheless the luck was already cast: a series of recitals signed the definitive goodbye to this key group of Argentinian music. From that moment on, Litto Nebbia would continue his solo career.
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Melopea Discos celebrates 50 years of Argentine rock with the remastered editions of the complete discography of Los Gatos, after 25 years of absence in record stores. After spending 15 years out of the market, and to mark the half-century existence of these anthological records, the band members themselves have decided to publish the complete discography. Remastered by Los Gatos.
Los Gatos is the first studio album by the Argentine band of the same name, released on November 11, 1967 by RCA Vik. After the release of the single "La Balsa/Ayer Nomás", released on July 3, 1967, which sold some 200,000 copies (the first major success of Argentine rock), the RCA company decided to capitalize on its success with the release of the first full-length namesake of Los Gatos, which would see the light of day at the end of that same year. The album included the two songs of the simple, plus ten others composed by Litto Nebbia, voice and leader of the group. The material was recorded in the Studies TNT of Buenos Aires, between April and October of 1967. In 2007, Rolling Stone of Argentina placed it in the 36th position of its list of the 100 best albums of Argentine rock.
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Melopea Discos celebrates 50 years of Argentine rock with the remastered editions of the complete discography of Los Gatos, after 25 years of absence in record stores. After spending 15 years out of the market, and to mark the half-century existence of these anthological records, the band members themselves have decided to publish the complete discography.Remastered by Los Gatos.
Los Gatos, also known as Los Gatos (Vol 2) or Viento Dile A La Lluvia, is the second studio album by the Argentine band of the same name, published in 1968 by RCA Vik. Although known as Vol 2 or Wind Tell The Rain, the album, like the previous one, had no title; and precisely "Wind Dile A La Lluvia" was the big hit. This LP came as the successor to the debut, which included "La Balsa", and did not have the impact of that one, although it served to consolidate the name of Los Gatos in the nascent scene of Argentine rock.
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Melopea Discos celebrates 50 years of Argentine rock with the remastered editions of the complete discography of Los Gatos, after 25 years of absence in record stores. After spending 15 years out of the market, and to mark the half-century existence of these anthological records, the band members themselves have decided to publish the complete discography. Remastered by Los Gatos.
Rock De La Mujer Perdida ("Rock Of The Lost Woman") is the fifth and last studio album by the Argentine group Los Gatos, released in 1970 by the RCA Vik record label. After a first estrangement from the band, the rest of the group, except Litto Nebbia, traveled to the United States in search of new musical influences in 1969. This brought enough changes in the band; the group will leave aside the beat rock to transform its sound into something much more bluesy and akin to harder rock n' roll. The songs "Rock De La Mujer Perdida" ("Rock Of The Lost Woman") and "Mujer De Carbon" ("Woman Of Coal"), among others, prove it. This LP with the passage of the years would be considered the best of Los Gatos and one of the best of Argentine national rock. Originally the album was going to be titled "Rock Of The Rotten Woman", but due to censorship problems, they had to change it. According to Nebbia himself, "the record company seemed very aggressive and I changed the title. At that moment I thought it was fine, that the essence was the same." Litto continues: "On the cover, we wanted a woman who responded to the bohemian character referred to in the lyrics of the song. . . . and we found this girl who was working in a boutique in the East Gallery, on Santa Fe Avenue." The first photograph that saw Ciro Fogliatta and Bony for the cover was of a bank of images, in which the model, according to the keyboardist, "was three times as fat and dressed in spectacular black lingerie." He goes on: "We could not get the rights, but we set out to maintain that spirit. It's a very crazy cover, because that story was going around that claimed that the mine of the photo was me, dressed as a woman. A lot of people, if you told them it was me, you threw their morale down. That is very Argentinean."
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Melopea Discos celebrates 50 years of Argentine rock with the remastered editions of the complete discography of Los Gatos, after 25 years of absence in record stores. After spending 15 years out of the market, and to mark the half-century existence of these anthological records, the band members themselves have decided to publish the complete discography. Remastered by Los Gatos.
Seremos Amigos is the third studio album by the Argentine band Los Gatos, released on November 30, 1968 by RCA Vik. Although the band did not manage to obtain simple singles with this album, as they did with their previous releases, the work is widely considered the best by fans and followers. Posted by the RCA Victor label in its VIK division on November 30, 1968, it's the third Los Gatos album and the last album with its original formation, because during the band's tour in Brazil, Kay Galiffi (guitarist) fell in love with Brazil and settled there not to return to Argentina for 39 years, just for the meeting of the group. This record shows Los Gatos a little more psychedelic than in his previous work (the album that brought "Viento Dile A La Lluvia") in themes like "Tomorrow" or "The Girl Of The Umbrella". They even animate a space rock prototype with "When The Year 2000", which was watered down 30 years after by artists such as Daniel Melero.
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