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Pachuco Cadaver was a strange and refreshing "anomaly" in the musical
panorama of the early 90's in Madrid. The duo composed by the Argentinian
Guillermo Piccolini (keyboards, ex-Toreros Muertos) and Roberto
Pettinato (voice and guitar, ex-component of the Argentinian group
Sumo) proposed an extravagant and original musical cocktail sprinkled
with psychedelic references (Syd Barrett), synthetic fanfarrias
(trademark: The Residents), Martian humour, Canterbury Dadaism (from
Daevid Allen to the first Soft Machine), piano hammerings similar
to John Cale / "I'm Waiting for the Man", Captain Beefheart's hangovers
(the own name of the band, for instance), and, above all, pop: a
sonorous journey through te pop iconography from The Beatles to
the New Wave including Andy warhol, the television adventures of
Batman or the B-52's.
Pachuco Cadaver was born in Madrid in 1989/90. At the beginnig it
was just an anecdotal meeting: a non-existent group that had been
circumstantially designed for only one night - emulating, then,
The Residents and The Blues Brothers. Many performances, theoretical
rehearsals and studies later, Pachuco Cadaver had consodilated an
unusula and fascinating repertoire with an instrumentation as minimal
as effective and self-sufficient: rhythm-machine, keyboards, MS-20,
guitar and voice, plus the complicity of the guest sax, the Argentinian
Willy Crook.
After publishing a first album at the end of 1990 in the brand new
company Triquinoise (the amazing "3 Huevos Bajo Tierra", that included
the version of Wire's "I'm the Fly" and another completely maddening
of Cream's "Sunshine of Your Love"), Pettinato went back to Argentina
and left the group in a state of semi-freezing - they were only
active during the concerts offered in 1991 after the inclusion of
the ex-Derribos Arias Alejo Alberdi (guitars), being Piccolini in
charge of the voices. Finally, and in between the two countries,
the original duo recorded in 1992 a second album called "Life in
La Pampa". This was a record even more ecclectic but also less inspired
than the previous one. A year later, Piccolini came back to Argentina,
so Pachuco Cadaver passed away.
Nowadays, and almost ten years after, Guillermo Piccolini has his
own group, Venus (accompanied by his wife Marina Olmi, among others).
Pop, slightly updated New Wave and his permanent psychedelic accent
are the ingredients of their first album, published in 1999.
F. Metamars
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RATS
Rats... Rats... RATS!
EVERYWHERE!
hu, hu, hu, hu, hu, hu
Rats. Rats. Rats, everywhere
ah. ah. ah. ah. ah.
Where doyya think they all come from?
Where doyya think...
-They all belong?
...They belong TO ME!
You... Short People!
OCEANS
She had my head on a planet
like a sweet source sauce
she was riding in her car
I was riding on my horse
neck to neck
along the road
oh, just my horse and ME!
Over the Hills!
Over the prerries!
in Paris in Spring!
and in the Old Pekin!
and in Katmandu!
just my horse and ME!
...
I'm bursting out of the ocean
I'm bursting out of the ocean!
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DEADLY TOWN
Well, into the distant nite
our father hung around
counting blessings
digging in the ground
into that deadly town...
The sound of babies flying
coming in their pants
the sound of money changing
the sound of my frogs...
don't wave your eyes on me!
don't save your legs from me!
HAPPY FLY
I'm the happy fly
and I don't care
if I live or if I died
I can dance
drink
& sing
till some blind hand
shall brush my wings
...
Here comes the March
we are going down
Her comes the March
we are going up
Here comes the March
we are going down
...so lonely!
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