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Topic: Carlos Beltrán Posted: March 07 2011 at 18:35
Hello dear fellow Collaborators!
I'd like to call especially Prog Electronic Team to attention and suggest Carlos Beltrán for addition to the database.
He is Mexican keyboard player and has issued his sole album "Jerico" in 1987. In one way, it can be described as a lost Tangerine Dream (their halcyon years) record, from another view, it sounds nothing like TD, as it makes a prominent use of grand piano (in fact, often the piano takes the leading role). To put it short, many would wish TD sounded so in 80s .
Unfortunately there is very little info about this excellent musician. Most of the details I've found comes from this very modest Wikipedia page:
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Posted: March 14 2011 at 09:49
You can post it here. Please also provide a photo of the artist and the link to his website (if any). After the addition is done, you'll be able to add the albums and review them.
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Posted: March 14 2011 at 10:10
Ok then, here's the bio, partly adapted from wikipedia:
Carlos
Beltrán (full name Carlos Beltrán Martínez De Castro), a Mexican keyboard
player, was born in 1956. Having received Classical training in childhood, he
became interested in Symphonic Prog and soft rock. However, 1987 saw him
release his only official album to date, Progressive Electronic gem, entitled “Jericó”
(on MUSART Records), where he combined his proficient Classical piano playing
with Cosmic synths and sequences. Sadly, this wonderful album went largely
unnoticed in his native country and the world hasn’t seen any official follow
up to “Jericó”. However, before retiring he distributed his home-made
unofficial tape “Familia Carbajal”, which is even harder to find than his
official album. In 1997, “Jerico” has been re-released on CD, thereby saving it
from undeserved oblivion.
Victim of
its time and epoch, “Jericó” can still stand as a bright light of 80’s Prog
Electronic music. It will especially appeal to those who like Classical and
symphonic touches to Cosmic music, like, let’s say, Vangelis or Sangiuliano.
Many fans would wish Tangerine Dream had sounded like this in eighties.
This photo was the only one I could find on internet - it comes form the rear sleeve of the album.
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