Los Violadores
| Los Violadores | |
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 Los Violadores in the 1980s: Robert “El Polaco” Zelazek, Gustavo “Stuka” Fossa, Enrique “Pil Trafa” Chalar (from left to right), Sergio Gramátika (below). |
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| General information | |
| Genre (s) | Punk rock |
| founding | 1980, 1995, 1999 |
| resolution | 1992, 1997 |
| Website | http://www.violadores.com/ |
| Founding members | |
singing |
Pil Trafa (Enrique "Pil" Chalar) |
Guitar, vocals |
Stuka (Gustavo Fossa) (1980–1992, 1999–2004) |
guitar |
Harry B (Pedro Braun) (1980-1982) |
| Current occupation | |
| Pil Trafa (from 1980) | |
| El Niño (Esteban Cayhate) (from 1999) | |
| El Tucán (from 2004) | |
| Sergio Vall (from 1989) | |
| former members | |
Drums |
Sergio Gramátika (1980-1989) |
bass |
El Polaco (Robert Zelazek) (1980-1992, 1995-1997) |
guitar |
Anel Paz (1995-1997) |
Drums |
Negro (Adrián Blanco) (1995–1997) |
Los Violadores (Spanish for the rapists ) is the name of a music group that was founded in Argentina in 1980 . She plays punk rock with mostly Spanish lyrics. The group, which is considered to be the first punk band in Argentina, split up several times, but has been active again since their second reunion in 1999.
biography
Pil Trafa (pun from piltrafa , "waste"), Stuka and Harry B (civil Pedro Braun) founded the punk band Los Violadores in 1980. Musically influenced mainly by The Clash , they played punk music with socially critical Spanish lyrics. In the process of National Reorganization in Argentina, their shows were canceled, the band members arrested several times and they were banned from performing under their provocative original band name. Therefore, the band appeared at times as "Los Voladores" (span. The Fliers ) and continued to spread their music in the underground scene .
When they were able to release the first album Los Violadores in 1983 through contact with Michael Peyronel, the drummer of the Argentine band Riff, Harry B had already left the band and El Polaco (real name Robert Zelazek) took over the bass. Sergio Gramátika was on the drums. The second album Y ahora qué pasa, eh? , which already contained their first hit Uno, dos ultraviolento (Spanish. "One, two, ultravioladores " ), and on which the band based the title of their next long-playing record Uno, dos ultravioladores in 1986 . The song is based on the film A Clockwork Orange by Stanley Kubrick and describes the violent actions of the protagonists who are talking in the Nadsat . In this fantasy language developed by Anthony Burgess , who wrote the novel for the film, “murder” or “rape” is translated as “ultra brutal”.
Again and again there were musical differences between Stuka, who wanted to orientate himself on dark wave and rock in the style of The Cure and U2 , while Pil Trafa consistently represented the line of "hard punk rock". With the album Fuera de sector (span. Outside the sector ), which was released in 1986, Stuka was able to prevail, while Mercado Indio , released in 1987, is a purely punk album. In 1989 Sergio Gramátika left the band. Sergio Vall can be heard on drums on the album Y que dios nos perdone , which was released in the same year.
On August 18, 1990, the band gave a live concert in the Obras Sanitarias , a basketball stadium of the Club Atlético Obras Sanitarias de la Nación in Buenos Aires , which became a rock temple. At this concert the band interpreted Ludwig van Beethoven's Ode to Joy in collaboration with the tenor Carlos Dario Saidman. The concert recording was released in the same year as an album with the title En vivo y ruidoso (Spanish. Alive and loud ).
In the autumn of 1992, however, the band said goodbye with several concerts in the Obras Sanitarias, as the conflict between Stuka and Pil Trafa had become insurmountable. The musicians then realized themselves in other formations. Pil Trafa and Sergio Vall founded the punk band Pilsen together with El Tucán (literally "The Toucan") and Biko and released the album Bajo otra bandera (Spanish under false flag ) in 1993 , for which they worked with Ronald Biggs in Rio de Janeiro worked together; next to it seemed Campino of Die Toten Hosen and Steve Jones of the Sex Pistols with. Stuka appeared as the front man of the band Stukas en Vuelo (Spanish: Stukas in flight ), which produced an album of the same name in 1992 and another album Interzona 66 in 1994 .
In 1995 the core of the band met, among others Sergio Vall and Stuka, to reunite the Los Violadores quartet, but the economic expectations were different. The result was the formation, Pil Trafa, Robert Zelazek, Anel Paz and Adrián Blanco, who recorded the album Otra patada en los huevos (Spanish for another kick in the eggs ) the next year and gave concerts in Argentina and neighboring countries. In December 1997, however, the band gave their farewell concert in Buenos Aires due to new differences.
In 1999, Pil Trafa and Stuka first presented themselves as the opening act for The Offspring in Luna Park with a project called Stuc @ Pil, in which Sergio Vall on drums and El Niño on bass were musically embedded . In this line-up, the Los Violadores presented the album Lo mejor de Los Violadores (span. The best of Los Violadores ) in 2000 , for which they had re-recorded a large part of their older pieces of music, with concerts in Argentina, Peru and the USA .
A live album En vivo y ruidoso II , recorded at the Cemento cultural center in Buenos Aires, was published in 2003. As an encore, the album contains a cover version of the song Viva la Revolution by Die Toten Hosen , which was recorded in the studio with the participation of Campino and Michael Breitkopf . The band then toured the Argentine province and Peru and performed as the opening act for the German band Die Toten Hosen in Luna Park .
Parallel to his activities in the band, Pil Trafa appeared as a soloist in Buenos Aires and began to record a solo LP, which was released in 2004 under the title El monopolio de la palabras (Spanish: The monopoly of words ).
Stuka had meanwhile moved his residence to the USA. Due to the long official route to and from the country, he was not always available for the band on time. When the Violadores performed at Cosquin Rock in 2004, El Tucán, a former member of Pilsen, stood in for Stuka. When the EP Y va ... sangrando (Spanish. And he bleeds .... ) Was recorded in the same year , El Tucán also took the place on guitar.
In the line-up of Pil Trafa, who now appears under his real name Enrique “Pil” Chalar, El Tucán, El Niño and Sergio Vall, the studio album Bajo un sol feliz (Spanish: under a happy sun ) was recorded with new songs. The CD was released in 2006 for the international market by EMI . A 90-minute band biography entitled Ellos son, Los Violadores (Spanish for They Are the Rapists), directed by Juan Rigirozzi, was released in 2009.
The band presents the album Rey o reina , which was released in November 2009, on their current tour .
Discography
Studio albums
- 1983 Los Violadores
- 1985 Y ahora qué pasa, eh?
- 1986 Uno, dos ultravioladores
- 1986 Fuera de sector
- 1987 Mercado indio
- 1989 Y que Dios nos perdone
- 1996 Otra patada en los huevos
- 2000 Lo mejor de Los Violadores
- 2004 Y va ... sangrando EP
- 2006 Bajo un sol feliz
- 2009 Rey o reina
Live albums
- 1990 En vivo y ruidoso In the “Obras Sanitarias” stadium, Buenos Aires, August 18, 1990.
- 2003 En vivo y ruidoso II in the “Cemento” cultural center, Buenos Aires, October 25, 2002.
Compilations
- 1991 Otro festival de la exageración
- 1992 Grandes éxitos
- 1996 Histórico - La verdadera historia double CD
- 2001 Obras cumbres double CD
DVD
- 2009 Ellos son, Los Violadores
Individual evidence
- ↑ Los Violadores. A retrospective conversation with the Argentinean punk rock legends. In: DeafSparrow.com. Archived from the original on April 15, 2012 ; accessed on April 26, 2017 (English).
- ↑ Information about Uno, dos ultraviolento on the homepage of Die Toten Hosen for Argentina.
- ↑ a b c d Esteban M. Cavanna: El Nacimiento del Punk en la Argentina y la Argentina y la Historia de los Violadores , Interpress Ediciones, Buenos Aires 2001, translated by Federico Gómez Levitanas: The Birth of Punk in Argentina and the Story of Los Violadores
- ↑ Biography at rock festivals in Argentina .
- ↑ Pilsen at philjens.plus.com
- ↑ El monopolio de la palabras at rock.com.ar
- ↑ Report on Pil Trafa at La Capital online
Web links
- Los Violadores in the Internet Movie Database (English)