Adarce Records is a record label born from a passion and a hobby. The devotion for recorded music and the compulsion to sift through dusty bins of second hand records with the intention of discovering old artists and hidden treasures, recordings released in the Iberian Peninsula, many of which have been left in the most ominous oblivion.
Before introducing you to this latest addition, it is necessary to understand that in the second half of the seventies, something was changing in the music scene. Music bands were at their peak until the call-up to the military draft started. Then, everyone returned from it without their long hair and with no money. Balladeers without personality took control of the music, as dictated by the record companies. It was then that copleras, cantaoras and rumberas became the necessary answer to combat the insipid melosity. Despite an unfavorable socio-cultural context, arrangers and producers invested hours of sleep to revive a sound that was on the verge of extinction. Regardless of the changes that may have occurred since then, the most significant one is that digital immediacy now dictates the course.
It is for all this importance that this album has finally arrived, bringing together a cast of folkloric artists in a unique combination, fusing the concept of groovy funk; with songs that span the entire Afro-American spectrum of seventies dance music, with hints of shouts and flamenco-like whispers that give it an impressive twist. We could consider it the standout album of the 20th century Rosalias, a sort of black and white lysergic trip to the Spanish post-Franco era. With its revolutionary hyperrealism, this album offers us a lineage of artists like no other.
In it you will find the hidden gems of artists such as Flores, Pantoja, Jurado, Polaca, among others. Although they remained faithful to their styles, all of them were famous for other aspects of their extensive discographies, and many even appeared on the cover of Interviú in more than fifty percent of the cases, like the feminists of the seventies according to Francisco Umbral.
