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Inamu donated a remastered vinyl copy of Los Gatos Salvajes, pioneers of rock, to Rosario

Inamu donated a remastered vinyl copy of Los Gatos Salvajes, pioneers of rock, to Rosario

A remastered vinyl cup of the original album “Los Gatos Salvajes” (1965), by the rock band of the same name from Rosario, which constituted the prehistory of that genre and gave rise to the formation of Los Gatos, was donated by the National Institute of Music (Inamu) to the Santa Fe Rock Museum, which now has “a treasure that becomes the heritage of Rosario,” said the provincial Minister of Culture, Jorge Llonch.

“It is a treasure that becomes the heritage of Rosario and of this museum. It is like the Monument to the Flag, something wonderful and unique”, said Llonch during the act of donating the disc, held last night in the city of Santa Fe.

“With this, we not only preserve history, there is something much more important: when one can treasure history to show it, he is thinking about the future,” added the minister in relation to the exhibition of the album at the Santa Fe Rock Museum.

The president of Inamu, Bernabé Buco Cantlón, gave Llonch the reissue of the album by the emblematic band from Rosario, recorded in 1965, material that was recovered from the original tapes and remastered on vinyl.

Cantlón said during the ceremony that he considered that “there is no better place for this film than the city of Rosario.”

The album was part of the catalog of the Music Hall record label (Sicamericana), which went bankrupt in 1994.

The president of Inamu said that many record companies were interested in buying that catalog, of around 2,500 records, and that it was very difficult for a judge to put a price on emblematic records in the history of rock.

“No one would like to be in the judge’s place having to put a price on the rights to those records,” said the official, adding: “With Inamu we made an offer to buy that catalog, but with a differentiation that played in our favor : We told the judge that we were going to return the rights to the musicians, to the main artists of those records, so that they can reissue all those records, in the formats they want.

Born in Rosario in 1963, Los Gatos Salvajes was made up of Litto Nebbia, Ciro Fogliatta and Eduardo Romero, among others, and was a pioneer in singing rock in Spanish, with classics such as “El rock de la cárcel”, originally recorded by Elvis Presley, among others.

Llonch recalled last night that “it was the first band that made music available to everyone, in Spanish”: “In 1965 -the minister continued- The Beatles had been playing for two years and in Rosario there were already people singing beat music in Spanish. It is not a natural or common occurrence. That was a phenomenon in Argentina”.

That year the album bearing the same name as the band was released, the first to include songs in Spanish.

With some changes in its formation, because by a contract with Canal 13 they had to travel every weekend from Rosario to Buenos Aires, the group remained until 1966.

After the dissolution, two of its members, Nebbia and Fogliatta, formed Los Gatos, the pioneering band of what later became known as national rock.

“When everyone wanted to sing in English, The Wild Cats changed their name to Gatos Salvajes and that was for something very simple: to make sovereignty,” said the Santa Fe Minister of Culture during the activity, which closed with a recital by the local group. I demoted.

“Because when one can arrive in Spanish, one can reach 100% of the people so that they know the lyrics, so that they understand what they are trying to convey in those lyrics,” added Llonch.

For his part, Cantlón pointed out: “From Inamu we work on the rescue and recovery of original masters so that this cultural heritage that is part of the history of music in our country is not lost, and to give back to musicians and musicians the rights to those records so they can reissue them.”

Source: Ambito

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