Daniel López Quiroga:music, electric guitars, noise gtr, fender stratocaster, acoustic guitar Ovation, electric bass fender telecaster 68', drum programming alesis, keyboards and all arrangements.
Leticia Solari: voices, sampler Akai S612 and lirycs.
Ricardo May: keyboards and programming.
Demos: recording and mixing.
Special guests:
Augusto Maurandi: bass in "Cats playing" (Sun fell Album) original demo 4 tracks 1992.
Daniel Gorostegui: sintethizer in "Rain, sun & flowers" (unreleased 8 tracks 1996).
Pablo Artuso: Drums in "Vivo detrás de tu ser" and " Rain, sun & flowers" (unreleased 8 tracks 1996)
Influences
Brian Eno Cocteau Twins New Order Dead Can Dance This Mortal Coil David Sylvian Brian Ferry Wolfgang Press The Beatles Velvet Underground My Bloody Valentine Talking Heads Spinetta Arco Iris Spandau Ballet Laurie Anderson Philip Glass The Doors Jesus & Mary Chain Depeche Mode Pixies Astor Piazzolla Tuxedomoon ABC Human League Pink Floyd The Cure
Sounds Like
Mellonta Tauta, con mucha melancolia, tonos calidos, otoñales, sonido sucio e ingenuo, denso y conflictivo, queriendo estar alegre pero sin saber como
Mellonta Tauta is formed in August 1988, when Leticia Solari joined Daniel Lopez Quiroga and Augusto Maurandi. On the beginning the group was seeking to experiment with ultramodern sounds inspired by artists like Laurie Anderson, Brian Eno, Japan, Talk Talk and Wolfgang Press.
Leticia has experienced in an intuitive way and without any musical formation with a mini - sampler, the Casio CZ101, and then joined the Sampler AKAI S612 and the sinte Yamaha DX27.
August added up his cavernous and voluptuary bass, motivated by his admiration for Simon Gallup's style, John Entwistle from The Who and Mick Karn from Japan.
Daniel contributed from the electrical guitar his incipient style new wave with dark touches, arpeggioes and climates as landscapes more than rhythmic. He takes charge also of the programming of the mythical Casio RZ1, rhythms machine.
The band begins to be employed at new material without limiting itself to anything, moved deeply by instrumental topics of deep experimentation, and for songs with the voice at the expense of August. Daniel frequented the School of Visual Arts for so he adds to the band also the visual complement with projections of slides extremely colourful.
The work of this period has resulted in a historic concert that took place in a warehouse called “La Frontera”, an old recycled factory, dedicated to sheltering artistic ultramodern experiences, which at the time attending all the restless spirits of the city.
That December 31 1988, atthe New Year Celebration Party, Mellonta Tautas deployed its entire arsenal, with a new sound for this land, an explosive cocktail of multicolored samplers, alienated guitars, spectral voices telling oppression and anguish. The performace was completed with slides and an installation of lights between scrap cars.
That night in the battery was Federico Aldaz (former Magazine) which his alter- punk style explosion gave dynamics and explosion to MT's music.
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La Banda se encuentra inactiva desde varios años, sin embargo ha quedado muchisimo material por publicar.
Situaciones personales complicadas, torcieron el destino de la banda, impidiendo poder avanzar en el momento adecuado (1998 estaba todo listo para entrar en studio en Florence y registrar un nuevo album con material muy bueno).
Luego la ruptura con nuestro manager suizo Sebastian Koch y la posterior muerte de Oli Rösch (factotum de Hyperium) terminaron por definir la suerte.
Ha quedado un sinfin de canciones maravillosas que grabamos en el studio casero, solos y con muchos amigos, grandes musicos.
Tal vez algun dia no muy lejano, haya un album nuevo de Mellonta Tauta.
Registros publicados en formato artesanal: Records published in handcrafted format:
GAUCHOS- songs- tape edition K7- Kabure Records 1991 Italia
PERFORMANCE- experimental & ambient- tape edition K7- Kabure Records 1991 Italia
Recording at Mellonta Tauta’s house, Bivigliano and Monte Giovi, Borgo San Lorenzo, Florence, Italy.
ANIMALS-songs- tape edition K7 -Kabure Records 1993- Argentina
OFFICIAL DISCOGRAPHY:
OCEAN Single EP 1994- Hyperium records
SUN FELL ALBUM 1995- Hyperium records
FISHES Single EP 1995- Hyperium records
Compilations:
ZAUBER of MUSIC- 1994 - Hyperium's bands- Pull the Carriot (single version)
HEAVENLY VOICES Vol 1. Album BOX 2 CDs 1995 - Pull The carriot (acoustic version) Hyperium records
AUDIO MAGAZINE (Greece) CD7 Compilation 1995 - Over The ocean (album version)
HEX FILES, THE GOTH BIBLE Vol. 3 Album Box 2 CDs- 1998 - Cats Playing (album version)
The SUN Fell’s Sessions:
July-August 1993 Blue Velvet Studios Florence, Italy.
Registred and mixed by Paolo Favati.
Pre-production: FM
Artistic Production: Mellonta Tauta.
STANDING OF THE SEA- A The Cure Tribute from argentinian bands - 1999 - The Funeral party (cover version)
Recording during a entire night of February 1999 at Mellonta Tauta’s house, Mar del plata, Argentina.
Music and plays instruments: DLQ
Voice: Leticia.
Recorded and mixed by Ricardo May.
Fishes 91’ Sessions:
December 1991 Blue Velvet Studios, Florence, Italy.
Registred, mixed & produced by Paolo Favati.
Gracias por agregarme como amigo. Soy un apasionado de Mellonta Tauta desde 1993, cuando leí sobre la banda en "Esculpiendo Milagros" y salí a mover cielo y tierra para conseguir ese cassette. Es bueno que hayan subido temas inéditos, y espero que lleguen más. Saludos desde Córdoba.
Hola! Que buena la música que hacían!! No los conocíamos.. ojalá puedan sacar algo nuevo pronto, está muy bueno en serio! También nos encantan esas imágenes psicodélicas, muy buenas..
Amo su proyecto... sus canciones... sobre todo Dawn... uds estan a la altura de los grandes... a la altura de Cocteau Twins... de lo mejor que he oido de argentina junto con Euroshima... saludos desde Mexico
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