50 years after its original release, the only album by PorSuiGieco returns in a remastered version and with deluxe extras. The announcement came along with a scene that is already a postcard of Argentine music: Charly García, Nito Mestre, León Gieco, Raúl Porchetto and María Rosa Yorio gathered in an intimate listening to the new edition.
The day took place at the Crazy Diamond Studio, with the presence of the engineer Gustavo Gauvryin charge of the remastering, and the president of the DRINKINGBuco Cantlón. The reissue is part of the work of the National Institute of Music to recover the Music Hall catalogue, a rescue that allowed the masters to be reopened and, above all, to return their commercial rights to the artists.
In Cantlon’s words, the original tapes were “the tool that allowed us to give artists back their commercial rights,” within the framework of an edition that combines remastering and expanded material. The album will be available on vinyl, CD and digital platforms, and will include two remixes as a bonus: one of «The Canterville Ghost» —a topic historically hidden by censorship— and another of “Jimmy’s mom”.
It will also add a double insert with unpublished photos from the 1975 tour and the group’s first poster, drawn by Charly himself. Also known as “By SuiGieco and his Band of Tamed Ostriches”the group was born in 1974, debuted live at the Kraft Auditorium and recorded their only LP in 1975, in parallel to the last months of Of his kind.
Although it is usually placed under the umbrella of “acousticazo”, the album brought together electric figures such as Rino Rafanelli, Pino Marrone, Gustavo Bazterrica y Alfredo Tothwhich today reinforces its character as a super band. While listening to the new edition, Yorio, García, Gieco, Mestre and Porchetto shared insights, anecdotes and winks about the cover art – devised by Charly – and about takes, arrangements and instrumental lines that time made legendary. “Beyond music, this reunion is the emotion that some works not only resist the passage of time, but transcend it,” Cantlon summarized.
