Bronca Buenos Aires, by Jorge López Ruiz

Bronca Buenos Aires

by Jorge López Ruiz

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Benahoare Post-bop with little incursions into free jazz. But it's got it's groovie parts too, and the lyrics (poems?) add a unique beauty to it. If you speak Spanish, you need to hear this and give it the time it deserves. Favorite track: La Ciudad Vacía.

HTMLMTH_01 Arriba Bs. As. y viva Argentina lpm Favorite track: La Ciudad Vacía.

Gary Bell Stunning piece of work!

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Limited edition on yellow marbled vinyl, limited and hand-numbered to 100 copies. Comes with 4-page insert with liner notes and English translation of the song texts.

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1.	La Ciudad Vacía 09:08	buy track
2.	Relatos 08:16	buy track
3.	Amor Buenos Aires 08:46	buy track
4.	Bronca Buenos Aires 07:24	buy track

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Essential jazz from Argentina, originally released in 1971. Bronca Buenos Aires is one of the highlights in the career of Jorge López Ruiz, alongside El Grito and the much-acclaimed Viejas Raíces project.

The album is jazz poem by López Ruiz to the city he loved, not just for its virtues but also its faults, and the recording was an ambitious project that gathered many of the prominent jazz musicians of Buenos Aires.

However, due to the repressive political context of the time, Bronca Buenos Aires was not performed live upon its release. The text that accompanies the music, written and narrated by José Tcherkaski, was too daring despite not being directly outspoken against the dictatorship that ruled in Argentina, and broadcasters kept a distance under fear of retaliation by the military establishment. Inexplicably, several later re-releases of Bronca Buenos Aires omitted the spoken word overdubs, reducing the work to an instrumental album and stripping it of half of its beauty and significance.

Altercat proudly brings you a new reissue of this essential recording IN FULL, with its original spoken words in Spanish, respecting the original artwork and with an accompanying booklet with an English translation of the texts, including a foreword by Jose Tcherkaski. Sound sourced from the master tapes, and caringly mastered by Pablo López Ruiz.

credits

released November 25, 2022

JORGE LÓPEZ RUIZ: Double bass, music, production.
JOSÉ TCHERKASKI: Text and narration.
ÓSCAR LÓPEZ RUIZ: Direction.
ALFREDO REMUS: Fender bass.
POCHO LAPOUBLE: Drums.
SANTIAGO GIACOBBE: Organ.
ENRIQUE "El Zurdo" ROIZNER: Perscussion.
FERNANDO GELBARD: Piano and flute.
HORACIO "Chivo" BORRARO: Tenor saxophone.
ALBERTO MIZRAHI: Baritone saxophone, bass clarinet.

Recorded in ESTUDIOS ION in Buenos Aires, Argentina.

For extended credits please see the back cover of the vinyl edition!

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