Cecilia: story of frustration | Culture | EUROtoday

It appears a merciless metaphor: trendy Spain colliding with the ancestral nation. It was an evening in August 1976. Cecilia and her musicians had been coming back from a efficiency in Vigo when, close to Colinas de Trasmonte (Zamora), their Seat 124 crashed into an oxcart that was touring alongside a road with out lightning. Her singer and drummer, Carlos de la Iglesia, died. Maybe the automotive was driving too quick: Cecilia needed to be at a recording studio in Madrid that morning.

Cecilia's reminiscence is blurred by that tragic finish: the nice creator we misplaced, the tax paid by musicians to the highway, the 27 Club, and so forth. A molasses that makes us neglect that she was an evolving expertise, marked by social, industrial and even private circumstances.

A bit e book by Eduardo Bravo, Cecilia 2. The story of the album that might not be (Lengua de Trapo) brings us again to the singer-songwriter within the midst of fight in opposition to censorship and the fears of her document firm. What got here out as Cecilia 2 It was going to have a much less aseptic title, I’ll keep single, with a photograph by Pablo Pérez Mínguez that confirmed the artist falsely pregnant. They didn't permit it.

Bravo shares Fernando Márquez's taxonomy The left handed, which locations Cecilia in a Third Way, between singer-songwriters and rock, together with Vainica Doble, Jaume Sisa or Rodrigo García (alone or as a part of CRAG). Cecilia's particularity lay in her cosmopolitan upbringing: she was a folkie with hippie methods, which upon its return to Madrid regularly found itself to be extra Spanish than gazpacho.

After a single in English with the group Expression, she was signed as a soloist by CBS, then probably the most dynamic firm in the marketplace. Produced by José Luis de Carlos, the primary LP got here out in 1972, with a placing cowl: a fragile lady however with a boxing glove. In reality, it included too many songs of loving submission, though Lord and proprietor o I went had been overshadowed by correct portraits of excessive society kind Right, proper o To the sound of the clarion.

The second album was a purification. Musically, with the measured preparations of Pepe Nieto, who additionally labored with Vainica Doble. Pre-feminist agonies disappeared in favor of existential questions, from the emancipation of the household to mockingly contemplating suicide. An uncomfortable tune concerning the Civil War stood out, which needed to lose its authentic title (One million lifeless), which didn’t forestall it from being declared “non-radiable” and the writer from visiting the Public Order Court. A state of affairs that she, the daughter of a diplomat, resolved finely, claiming that it was referring to the Six-Day War, which she skilled in Jordan.

With the whole lot, Cecilia 2 It meant a sure industrial blip. There had been then errors corresponding to recording in English for the American market (just one promotional single was launched). And extra harmful: for A sprig of violets (1975) they put it within the arms of a heavyweight, the arranger Juan Carlos Calderón, who had already reloaded his first LP, who might be held liable for the aberrant Tijuana Brass contact of the hymn My pricey Spain. Calderón would even be the executor of a set of duets unearthed which we higher not speak about.

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