Latin American Prog WC: Factor Burzaco- Climax

Even though I didn't get the support I was hoping for my new idea, I've decided to go for it, or at least try and see if this can work...

This is the methodology used for each band's inclusion (like it or not, some cutting had to be made. I'm sorry if one of your favorites was omitted):

Brazil and Argentina are the countries with more bands on the archives. The ones participating on the tournament are those which have at least one album with 14 or more ratings.

For Chile and Mexico, it's the same methodology but with a minimum of 9 ratings instead.

For the rest of the countries, a minimum of 5 ratings. And for those countries which didn't have any band with any album over 5 ratings (Ecuador, El Salvador, etc.), I just simply choose their only representative in same cases, or the one I considered to be the most important in terms of ratings on the other cases.

This process ended up giving me 128 bands. The distribution is the following:

29 from Brazil
25 from Argentina
20 from Chile
18 from Mexico
15 from Venezuela
7  from Peru
3  from Puerto Rico
2  from Cuba and Costa Rica
1  from Uruguay, Bolivia, Colombia, Ecuador, El Salvador, Guatemala and Panama

This bands will compete on single elimination matches, where the winner will advance and the loser will be automatically out of the tournament. The tournament will be divided into 4 legs of 32 bands. The winner of each leg will reach the semifinals.

It appears that the entire Climax album can be streamed on this website.  http://sool4jo.tistory.com/426

harmonium.ro wrote: No post rock band :( For the record, there are some excellent post rock bands from Latin America, like the Brazilian Hurtmold, the Chilean Jovenabuelo, or the Peruvian Kinder.

 

This Climax album is pretty sweet.  I am loving the drums and percussion big time.  Not much in vocals.  Way better than its 2.27 rating would indicate as far as I am concerned.

Morningrise wrote: harmonium.ro wrote: No post rock band :( For the record, there are some excellent post rock bands from Latin America, like the Brazilian Hurtmold, the Chilean Jovenabuelo, or the Peruvian Kinder.     I didn't realise about that. Autumn Moonlight from Argentina is a very recommendable band too

Factor Burzaco.

Factor Burzaco for me. Climax is a pleasant surprise, competent prog in the vein of Yezda Urfa, but that's something I lost interest in. 

Check out the streaming of the album that I posted in the 2nd post.  The quality is much much better.

Voted Factor Burzaco, which was the only one of these I knew beforehand and really impressed me when I saw it suggested for PA, but I like both in different ways.

Tiebreaker? Not based on number of ratings certainly as I seem to remember you did before.  Maybe you could ask in a post questions about both bands and the first poster to get them right breaks the tie in favour of the album of his/her choice.  I know it sounds silly, but it adds more gameshow factor to the proceedings, even if they are just searching/gogling the info (course it depends whose online and is a bit unfair, I guess).  never-mind.  I'd be okay if you had the tie-breaker advantage based on your own preference , but you'd expect some heat for that.

Incidentally, it's your contest and I know you had to limit it (I thought this time around you would be doing more bands at a time while offering youtube clips of all of them but I guess I wasn't quite clear on how you'd do it from discussion in the thread where you asked if it was worth doing this), but I do wish you hadn't gone with so limiting a number of ratings.  I was hoping Arrigo Barnabe would qualify.  I don't have a big collection from the regions, but this is one of my favourites:

4.00 | 5 ratings Clara Crocodilo
1980




Edited by Logan - April 04 2012 at 13:17

It's a pity that Rodrigo San Martin is remained out. His "Eyes" is one of the best albums that I've listened to in 2012.