Barrabas the 70s funk band Rarities plus release Fernando Arbex memories from a Moron
Barrabas el grupo de los 70 y Soltad la memoria de Fernando Arbex de un Gilipollas
Probably the most important figure in Spain's modern music, excluding classical and flamenco and Julio Iglesias, would be Fernando Arbex
and his many projects including particularly the brillant 70s funk band Barrabas
. After their first two albums, Barrabas recorded 4 more in the United States. The last of which was called Swinger, released in 1977, which aparently was unfinished. I suspect that Arbex used many songs originally designed for that Barrabas project for other artists. I will talk about that later. But I have to start this article talking about an idiot lier called Jose ma Moll.
Exluyendo la musica clasica, el flamenco y a Julio Iglesias, Fernando Arbex
y sus numerosos proyectos, especialmente Barrabas
, fue la figura mas importante de la musica moderna en España. Despues de sus 2 primeros LP´s, Barrabas grabaron 4 más en Estados Unidos, el ultimo y sin acabar de esa etaba era de finales de 1977 y se llamaba Swinger. Yo sospecho que cuando Arbex decidio romper el grup utilizo canciones que tenia trabajadas para Barrabas para otros cantantes. De eso hablará este articulo. Pero antes hay que hablar de un idiota mentiroso que se llama José María Moll
This idiot lier of Moll was simply a little replaceable drummer boy, that was kicked out of the band before Barrabas
recorded their two best albums "Heart of the City" and "Watch Out". Unfortunately now that Arbex is no longer alive, little drummer boy has started using the name Barrabas to get concerts and has opened a website for Barrabas where he clearly miss represents himself and claims to himself achievements that belong to Arbex. I hope that Arbexes daughter and heir looks into this matter at some point.
Ese engreido de Moll que no era mas que un tambolirero de usar y desechar, ahora que ya no esta Fernando Arbex, esta utilizando el nombre BARRABAS para uso propio y peor aun, se ha montado una página web en que subido a su caballo blanco se acredita sin verguenza alguna logros que eran todos de Fernando Arbex. Se olvida que todos los hits de Barrabas incluido el de la segunda etaba ON THE ROAD AGAIN
son composiciones de Fernando Arbex. Los herederos de Arbex, que son su hija y me parece un hijo deberían de ponerle frenos a ese chulito. Para el colmo Arbex le echó y no estuve en los 2 mejores discos de Barrabas: "Heart of the City" y "Watch Out".
As I said Arbex broke up the 70s run of Barrabas abruptly in 1977. Around that exact same period Arbex was producing some Spanish artist. A close listen to those LP´s makes it obvious that he used tracks intended for Barrabas for these unlikely artists. God knows, I hate Miguel Bosé or Camilo Sesto, but forgetting who they are one can realize that tracks like Bosé´s mega hit ANNA or Camilo Sesto´s unreleased "Slowly (come to me) " were in reality Barrabas magic. Listen to samples below.
Como dije antes Arbex rompió Barrabas en 1977. Justo en esa epoca ARbex estaba produciendo varios artistas de Espania. Una escucha cuidadosa a estos LPs que estaba produciendo en 1977 deja claro que utilizó canciones disenyadas para Barrabas en LPs de artistas, que uno no se puede ni imaginar, como mi odiado Miguel Bosé y Camilo Sesto. Esta clarisimo que el mega hit ANNA de Bosé era en realidad BARRABAS puro y el temazo "Slowly (come to me) " para Camilo Sesto tambien era material de Barrabas. Ese ultimo quedo sin editarse en su dia por problemas legales que yo desconozco. Escuchen las muestras de menos de un minuto que he puesto abajo.
LISTEN BELOW to a short sample of SLOWLY come to me by Camilo Sesto
LISTEN BELOW to a short sample of Shoot me in the Back by Miguel Bose
By the way I had the first website dedicated to Barrabas in 1999. At that time there were no other sites and I had so many letters from Brazil to Colombia to the US, France and Spain. Including letters from Joe Tejada's daughter, the son of Tito Duarte, etc... Here is a copy of that old site
L’altra metà da trovare non è una persona: sei sempre tu. E’ l’altra metà di te, la parte sconosciuta alla quale devi dare vita, per poterti finalmente incontrare. Per sempre. Questa è la vera unione in grado di liberarci da quel sentimento di solitudine che avvertiamo anche quando stiamo con qualcuno.