![]() ![]() As with the first record, the promise of "Spanish female singers" proves slightly misleading - there are several non-Spanish singers here (Claudine Coppin, Donna Hightower and Elsa Baeza among them), as well as male / female duos (Spanish composer Antón García Abril features with Edda Dell'Orso, one of Ennio Morricone's favourite singers) and bands. ![]() In general, though, the new compilation sticks pretty close to the modus operandi of Volume One. The enlarged time frame - 63 to 78, versus 62 to 74 for Volume One - is also notable, with the music on Volume Two expanded to include 70s rock, ska and disco, as well as the soul, funk and psychedelia of the first record. I'd certainly never heard of any of the artists here beyond the granite voiced Alicia Granados, who features on the first record. Many of the 28 tracks here are reissued for the first time and they include some "very hard-to-find records", the label claims. The second volume of the Chicas series sees Vicente Fabuel, renowned Spanish record collector, record shop owner and the mastermind behind the first Chicas album, back at the controls with a selection of music that is, if anything, even more obscure than the not-exactly household names on its predecessor. It was a selection of music that was as vivacious as it was unlikely, coming from the patriarchal depths of Franco's Spain where censors would pick over music releases for anything that clashed with their right-wing world views. In 2011 it released ¡Chicas! Spanish Female Singers 1962-1974, a fabulous collection of obscure Spanish yé-yé, garage rock, soul and psychedelia, largely dug from B sides and commercial flops. And that's just modern-day Spain: the country's musical archive is, if anything, even more unknown.įighting this wildcat indifference is Vampisoul, a Madrid-based reissue label which has explored everything from New Orleans funk to "Peruvian groovers" in its bid to dig up musical nuggets. Over the last 30 years, as Anglo-American attitudes have started to relax and expand, musical connoisseurs have picked over French chanson, Italodisco, Belgium New Beat, Polish jazz and many more.īut Spanish music - with the odd exception in the shape of John Talabot or El Guincho - remains uncharted territory for anyone outside the Iberian Peninsular, reduced to a hazy memory of flamenco, Ibiza clubbing holidays and one-off novelty hits. Spanish pop might just be the last unexplored territory in forward-thinking European music. ![]()
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