In 1971, Quilmes’ native band took the world of rock with a challenging and avant -garde album.
On March 15, 1971, Vox Dei He published an album that would remain in the history of Argentine music. The Bible It arrived in times where censorship prevailed, and the founding nucleus of our rock – almendra, cats and manal – already marked a trend. In another line, the incipient band, which had debuted in 1970 with its LP called Caliente, had been encouraged by its own Luis Alberto Spinetta to sing in Spanish.
So the Quilmes group, made up of Willy Quiroga (voice and bass), Rubén Basoalto (battery and percussion), Juan Carlos “Yodi” Godoy (voice and guitar) and Ricardo Soulé(voice, violin and guitar), decided to kick the board with a experimental work, which played a subject as sensitive as religion. The album was recorded at TNT studios and took more than 150 hours, an unprecedented fact in the history of Argentine rock.
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Rock, church and interpretations
The idea of the concept arose from Soulé, who He gave the text of Catholic Genesis a human interpretation, with a look of the characters as ordinary people. The only approach to Christianity by the band member was to have taken communion and confirmation as a child.
“At first I thought I should face the texts of the Bible Dogmatic. Without putting anything about me. But that was impossible for several reasons … I decided then that I had to play. Give a little face since he had decided to face the subject. I had no other way out to elaborate my own interpretation of the Scriptures. Count what happens in the Bible But just like I felt it when reading it”, He explained.
Inspired by the first rock operas as Tommy of The Who, SF Sorrow of The Pretty Things and Arthur (or the decline and fall of the British Empire) of The Kinks, The Bible Vox Dei was a great experimental work that was created from ideas that became zapadas and finally in songs. The first double album in the history of Argentine rock It was a synthesis of the creativity of the group, which in the eight songs encompasses a concept of religious text (David and Goliath’s story in “Las Varras”, the teachings of the Old Testament Writings section in “Sapiential Books”).
A curiosity of the album is that it closes with “Apocalypse”an instrumental theme that originally had lyrics. However, in trouble to get the album, the band could not finish it. Their publication marked a milestone in the history of our music, and on top of them would bring them closer to a Catholic audience, in One of the few points in the story in which rock is along with religion.
Source: Ambito
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