Los RetroVisores
"La nostalgia ya no es lo
que era"
FyN-42-LP 8435015511296
FyN-43-CD 8435015511302
LOS RETROVISORES, “La Nostalgia ya no es
lo que era” (Nostalgy doesn't no more what it was).
Few times the band name and that the record name have said so
much in so few words. They are current but watch back with some
nostalgy. That is why that sound that us moves to the sixties
and that themselves define as “neo ye-yé, freak pop
and iberic soul ”.
"La Nostalgia ya no es lo que era"
(“Nostalgy doesn't no more what it was”) is not just
a fantastic songs collection, also is a conceptual idea that is
reflected in the irony of lyrics. Los Retrovisores want to get
the right the direction of the world. Sad and desolate before
the economical crisis, social and moral, these talented ones musicians
propose to recover values of yesteryear to overcome the disastrous
current conjecture and to return the smile to the people of iberia.
Los Retrovisores are a mix of Bruno Lomas &
la Moreneta, Barcelona Football Club in the President Montal years
& Orange Mirinda, Tuset Street & licor 43, the Simca 1000
& Liutenant Colombo, Leonidas Bresnev & Timbaler del Bruc...
(all this are spanish and world 60's & 70's icons)
In it strictly musical emphasize the use of the brass, voice
games, the hammond organ and the dab reggae/soul that do that
Los Retrovisores, still taking lent elements,
have created a distinctive sound and staff.
Los Retrovisores are of Barcelona, what is already
warned in some references as in “No más martes”
in which us liven up in the often stuck Ronda de Dalt (a ‘fast’
way of the city). Until now his songs it was necessary to seek
them in compilations (L’Edat Daurada, Moderno pero español,
Volumen 8). In 2007 were nominated to Prizes Pop Eye in the category
of group soul. And finally in 2009 give the jump and are presented
with his own complete record. There is no doubt that it is a question
of a debut more than brilliant in which will find...
“Dieciséis” (16 years old)
is the first hit single. The song start with some striking metals
that give passed to the history of the eternal dispute on the
arrival time home of a teenager of 16 years old. Main voice and
choirs move us at 60’s, of having fact then, it can have
signed perfectly by Juan & Junior (famous spanish duet in
the 60’s), although it does not be clear if the situation
is current or of the period of the 60’s parties. It there
are things that do not change.
But the disc does not finish here, we must stop in the irony
of “Interludio I, surfin' Ocata”
or “Pijos of Pop”, the present time
of “2008: la crisis” and other pieces
as “Sin ti no sale el Soul” or “El
gran guateque”. A complete and essential disc.
Los Retrovisores are :
Víctor el Peole (voice, guitar & chorus),
Pere el Boltxevic (guitar, chorus & keyboard),
Leonardo Guateque (bass, chorus & drums),
Gunzals “el portugues” (keyboards, chorus & guitars),
Alejo sir Al (drums, chorus & trombons),
Moses “el profeta” (baritone & high sax),
Artur Marteens (trumpet)
Joan Velasco (tenor sax)
& Gustavo Valeria (trombon).
Recorded in Kinky Lab by Alejo Peloche.