Secta Sonica - 1976 - Fred Pedralbes

Secta Sonica 

1976 

Fred Pedralbes

01. Violentos Los Correas 5:51
02. I Left My Heart In El Aaiun 4:50
03. Renato Sabrosone 4:17
04. Wad-Ras 2:00
05. La Palmeria 4:17
06. Acoyte 4:04
07. Puré De Rissos 1:35
08. La Terra És Plana 3:17
09. Aquàries 3:46

Bass – Xavier Pérez
Guitar – Jordi Bonell
Guitar – Rafael Zaragoza
Guitar – Victor Cortina
Drums – Toni Aracil
Keyboards – Mauro Vilavecchia

Congas – Noel Mújica
Electric Piano – Dave Pybus
Guitar – Jordi Sabates (tracks: A3, B2, B3),
Percussion – Krupa Quinteros
Piano [Steinway] – Lucky Guri (tracks: B1)
Bouzouki – Xavier Batllés (tracks: B2, B4)

Spanish 70's band. They made a tight fusion adding mediterranean flavour the trendier jazzrock fusing also some West Coast grooves.

The group was created in 1975 by the hand of "Gato" Pérez, years later it would become very popular for the Catalan rumba. At first their name was somewhat mystical, "Sect of Stellar Wisdom", but they soon changed it to Sonic Sect. In 1976 they recorded their first album, "Fred Pedralbes", containing no less than three guitarists in their formation. A year later his second and last album would arrive, "Astroferia", a somewhat more experimental album than the previous one.

The album was recorded by the Edigsa company, a record company that brought together a large part of the Catalan groups of the time. The nine songs it contains are instrumentals with a sound mastery of the guitar, how could it be otherwise. The sounds that we find are a mixture of rock, jazz, some progressive and some drops of Folklore ("La terra es flat"). Some illustrious Catalan musicians participated in the recording, Jordi Sabatés, Lucky Guri, Xavier Batalles, etc. The songs that would stand out without a doubt would be "Violentos los correas" and "Acoyte".