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1LP Vinyl – SM 0001

Sometimes Music is proud to begin its activity with the reissue of the debut album of the band Raíces on black vinyl. Recorded at the TAKE 1 studios in Buenos Aires in the winter of 1978, the album was produced by Mario Breuer, who has produced albums by the greatest Argentine and Latin American rock artists of the last half century.

The period that began in the late 70s and continued throughout the following decade was a time of unique creativity for Argentine rock. Early figures of the movement, such as Luis Alberto Spinetta and Charly García, gave their careers a new impulse and took their music in new directions, while a new generation of artists, including Virus and Los Violadores, incorporated new sounds and satirical and corrosive lyrics related to the emergence of punk and new wave, which had taken the international music scene by storm.

This renewal had many other nuances, and in this sense Raíces' proposal should be appreciated in its proper dimension. In the 21st century, nobody is surprised by the close ties between Argentinean and Uruguayan musicians on the Río de la Plata and the peculiar fusion of rock with folklore elements from both countries: candombe, murga, tango and milonga sound perfectly familiar to rock fans on both sides of the River Plate, the "lion-coloured river".