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Pescado At Its Primitive Best

Juan Mobili | Valley Cottage, NY USA | 12/04/2007

(4 out of 5 stars)

"Almendra was history, and Luis Alberto Spinetta was ready for a band to stay a band. The question was where he'd find the right people but whatever happened, he did. Amaya on drum, Lebon on bass and Cutaia's Hammond along with Luis Alberto's muddy, proto-Zepp guitars, are Pescado Rabioso's at its core: heavy riffs and existential poetry somewhat all working in the mind and the voice of Spinetta.



As with the best years of Spinetta across the board, Luis covers a great emotional range in these tunes. Right off the start you get the raw power of Jardinero and Blues de Cris with the group jamming the riff hard, a distant relative to Sabbath but completely the edgy soundtrack to the Seventies in Buenos Aires.



Then there is the great Folk ballad, Dulce Tres Nocturno, with Spinetta singing with a different intimacy than the Almendra days, even Bluesy and reminiscent of early Fleetwood Mac when Peter Green was at the helm. And to end in a strong note Pescado closes with Serpiente (Viaja por la Sal), which could possibly be worth the purchase of this album.



Although this is not their masterpiece--either Spineta on his own in Artaud or Pescado 2 with the full group deserve that honor--it is quite a great debut. Later, Luis would morph into Invisible and visit other planets. But here, right on the ground Pescado made their Rock."