Gauchos Pesados
Gauchos Pesados was the band that initiated the most important genre of latin music: the glamorous cumbia. Altough, it was not one of the biggest bands, or important.
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The Style
The whole genre style was invented by Hernán and Diego Vizia. Later improved by some (Ráfaga, La Rosa) and emuled but not equaled by others (Antonio Ríos, Media Naranja), it was a shock for the sub-world of the cumbia in Buenos Aires in 1998. The lyrics of the songs were mostly romantic, the message positive, and the attitude glamorous and theatrical. Hernán Vizia used to dress like Liberacce in Epoque swites of the 19th century, wearing a lot of jewelry and sometimes becoming close to a drag, like bands as Poison and Europe, and Diego Vizia almost always dressed like Freddie Mercury in the early years of Queen. Also, they used to act little dialogs between the songs, to make the whole show appear like a movie, with its own soundtrack.
The Music
Brilliant for nature and very identified with 80's and dance instruments, it differed significantly from the other styles of cumbia, with synthesizers and keyboards as main instruments, electronic sounds and percussions, and a musical score very charged with harmonies of voices, icy sounds like brightness, bells or pad-ens, and trumpets (sometimes electronically synthesized as well). Altough nearly all people has forgotten it today, it remains as a symbol of 90's argentine culture.
Discography
- Chronicles (1997)
- Memorial (1998)
- The Seventh Horseman (1999)
- In the Name of the Holy Spirit (1999)
- Apocalypsis (2000)
- Dungeons of the Castle (2000)
- The Second Coming (2001)
- Virtuoso (2001)
- Alucard Symphony (2001)
- Requiem for Love (2002)
- Harmony of Dissonance (2003) (Tribute to Castlevania Music)
Band Members
- Hernán Vizia (vocals, keyboards)
- Diego Vizia (vocals, keyboards)
- Fari Farina (chorus, , controler, guitars)
- Ismael Pistacchia (chorus, drums)
- Fabio Giannone (chorus, timbals)
- David Severini (chorus, bass)
- Alfio Olguín (trumpet)
- Flavio Giannone (trumpet)
- Ana Belén Cabanillas (chorus, trumpet)
See also: www.tropicalisima.com