If ricotera mythology usually consecrates the disk Octobera work that will celebrate four decades by the end of the year, as the creative and symbolic summit of his career, we must not deny its successor (A bayon for the idiotic eye, published in April 1988) the merit of being the one that accelerates their takeoff from the underground and determines the fireball that would deposit them directly in Obras a year later.
Confident, accelerated and sharp, it sounds like the juicy fruit of a band that was finishing its work with weekly shows at the Teatro Bambalinas, Cemento, the Atenas Stadium in La Plata and various clubs of a medium size or higher. Never before had they had so many presentations and Skay Beilinson doubled his role as the only guitarist that until a few months ago he had shared with Tito Fargo. and he Indian Solari He was increasingly established as a frontman.
Within the scene that contained them, the inherent mourning had to do with the passing of Luca Prodan in December 1987. The Sumo leader was a familiar force to The Rounds: He had participated in a couple of the band’s shows as a guest and knew how to record with his people Better not to talk about certain things -original theme Indio Solari– in Divided by happiness (1985), the debut of the group led by the Italian.
In a note made by the journalist Gloria Guerrero in the magazine Humor In that year, Solari did not hide the pain: “I bet on a place where socialization is possible, because for me the simple recreation of fashions, no matter how much it provokes a diversity that I appreciate, does not provoke anything else in me. I wish I were listening to good Argentine groups and I shit the son of a bitch Luca who died.”
In several interviews, El Indio referred to the forms of musical power of that time as “a very rag-tag sound.” The adjective, a Spanishism that has little to do with the musical style that today DukiTrueno and Cazzu maintain with astonishing popularity, refers to a rawness and intensity that they would repeat in the next Bang Bang you’re done (1989).
The real thing is that a bayon… still sounds today like a rock blast that doesn’t let up. A rosary of inspired classics, buzzwords and alerts that, as then, continue to detect the listener’s free zones to reactivate self-esteem or precipitate the slap in time.
Defeated victors could be “the” definitive theme of Patricio Rey’s psychic workers, ergo, Los Redonditos de Ricota: by letter, transfer and electricity. Same as quite a stickthe funky neo-stone that closes the album.
In the middle, they pass through the lucid fury of Every prisoner is a politicianthe meta-rock of Let’s go bandsthe media irony of Yesterday’s newsthe comic book imagery of Massacre in the brothelthe psychobolche joke of That lonely Cuban cow and the uncontrolled eros of She must be so pretty.
Many years later, in an interview with Clarionthe creator of the visual world of Los Redondos, RocamboleI would rehearse an explanation of its cover. “They are references to the title: there was the television but I couldn’t think of an image of idiocy. Until one day I found an installation made by my daughter: it was a doll with collars, a mask, a pacifier. Then I added the dog, which is a constant in Solarian literature. The group became more popular and my works began to be reproduced: I prefer them to be on the street than in a museum. I was always more interested in the art of comics than in the exhibitions it goes to a lot of people drinking wine and chatting.”
Now, after the successful vinyl reissues of the debut (Gulp!1985) and October (1986), which took place at the beginning of 2025, a batch of 4 thousand copies of his third album will begin to be sold from this Thursday, April 16, in the chain of music houses/record stores LEF, with branches in Villa Urquiza, Villa del Parque, Adrogué and Tortuguitas.
The work, not reissued in this format since its original release, is part of a careful recovery – graphic and sound – of the original material which has been agreed upon by the two parts of the original triumvirate of the group: Indio Solari on the one hand and Skay Beilinson and the Black Poly on the other.
As it turned out, the matter is being handled in a very good manner. Virginia -Solari’s partner since the ’80s- and Poli, Skay’s better half since 1970, as well as historical manager of Los Redondos. So although for different reasons of time, will, space and health the little song of the followers (“I only ask them to get together again”) retains impossible levels of realization, at least they can get excited and ask that their albums be re-released.
