Durazno Sangrando

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Durazno sangrando is Invisible's second studio album. It's a concept album inspired by the traditional Chinese book "The Secret of the Golden Flower," a Taoist work on meditation attributed to Lü Dongbin, popularized in the West by Richard Wilhelm and Carl Jung. It was recorded in 1975 at CBS Studios and presented live (Teatro Coliseo, November 21 and 22, 1975). The album opened with a fifteen-minute suite, aptly titled "Encadenado al ánima", featuring subtle arrangements, shifting rhythms, and complex instrumental passages. The lyrics, filled with psychedelic imagery, resulted from a fusion of writing by Pomo and a poem by Luis Santiago Spinetta, Luis Alberto's father. The piece was divided into two parts. Towards the end of the first, the chords of a string synthesizer could be heard, breaking the band's traditional guitar, bass, and drums structure. The instrument was played by Esteban Martínez Prieto, Machi's bandmate in a cover band in the early 1970s. "I played sixteen bars," the pianist recalls today. Side one concluded with the album's title track, a beautiful acoustic fable about humankind and its sometimes painful processes of reinvention. Side two began with "Pleamar de águilas", where Rufino took the lead vocals to narrate a mystical sea voyage. To Luis Alberto's lyrics, the bassist added naval terminology learned during his time as a sailor in the Argentine Navy. Next came "En una lejana playa del animus", an extensive opus of varied rhythmic patterns that even flirted with indigenous influences. In it, Spinetta revisited passages from Wilhelm and Jung's book to deliver delicate and intriguing lyrics. The last song was “Dios de la Adolescencia,” a gem of less than three minutes that, with nods to the philosopher Jean-Paul Sartre, described a pre-teen girl in search of her freedom. “In musical and poetic terms, all the pieces are linked to each other,” Rufino maintains. “The album,” Lorenzo agrees, “wasn’t a collection of songs but a complete work.” The album was recorded at CBS Studios, located at 1500 Paraguay Street. The facilities were complemented by an arsenal of instruments. These optimal conditions matched the trio’s efficiency when it came to recording their songs. “.

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