Durazno sangrando


Durazno sangrando is the second studio album by the Argentine rock band Invisible and the eighth featuring Luis Alberto Spinetta, released on September 1975. Invisible was composed of Spinetta, Pomo Lorenzo, and Machi Rufino.
It is a conceptual work inspired by notions Spinetta borrowed from the work of Swiss philosopher and psychologist Carl Jung, based on the traditional Chinese book The Secret of the Golden Flower. The album consists of only five tracks, including one of the most popular songs from Spinetta's songbook from which the album takes its title. This was the only song from the album performed at the mega-recital Spinetta y las Bandas Eternas organized by the musician in 2009 to celebrate his 40 years in music.
It was recorded in 1975 at CBS Studios and performed live.
The album cover, designed by Eduardo Martí, and the poster featuring a drawing by Spinetta himself were censored by the municipal authorities of the city of Rosario in late 1976, because they considered that the image represented a vagina.

The album

Durazno sangrando is a conceptual work inspired by Spinetta's readings of the Swiss philosopher and psychologist Carl Jung on the traditional Chinese book The Secret of the Golden Flower, a Taoist meditation work attributed to Lü Dongbin, which was disseminated in the West thanks to its 1929 translation by the German Richard Wilhelm, and which inspired Jung's concepts of the animus and the anima. The lyrics of the songs display a strong surrealist air with "nods to the philosopher Jean-Paul Sartre".
At the beginning of 1976, Spinetta would dedicate one of his concerts to the "marginalized and alienated of the world", a reality and social condition that was a constant in his work:

Themes

Continuing musically with the style that characterized the first two albums of Invisible linked to progressive rock and psychedelia, and with lyrics with a marked surrealist imprint, Durazno sangriento
is a concept album based on Luis's readings, especially of The Secret of the Golden Flower as reflected in the title track in which the stone, upon coming into contact with water, generates the "golden flower". The lyrics of "En una lejana playa del animus" and the 15 minute suite "Encadenado al ánima" refer respectively to the famous Jungian concepts of the anima and animus, where the first represents death and the second, life
The album also shows influences of the French philosopher Jean-Paul Sartre, as for example in "Dios de la adolescencia", whose lyrics seem to explore notions dear to that author about the pursuit of freedom in the dreamlike images of a teenager in frantic flight from the anguish before the abyss of "nothingness", or in certain vignettes of "Encadenado al ánima" that seem to recreate the disturbing atmosphere of psychological and existential alienation in many of that author's works. An important detail is that this surrealist poem is the work of Santiago Spinetta, Luis Alberto's father. There are myths that claim that Spinetta composed some songs on this album in Capilla del Monte based on regional legends.

Credits

  • Carlos Alberto 'Machi' Rufino – bass and vocals
  • Héctor 'Pomo' Lorenzo – drums
  • Luis Alberto Spinetta – guitars and vocals
  • Esteban Martínez Prieto – ARP Strings Ensemble on "Encadenado al ánima"
  • Luis Santiago Spinetta – lyrics for "Encadenado al ánima"