How many Luis Alberto Spinetta releases are on Riffiter?

27 releases are catalogued, spanning 1971 to 2021.

When was Luis Alberto Spinetta formed?

Luis Alberto Spinetta formed in 1967, in Buenos Aires.

What is the most recent Luis Alberto Spinetta release on Riffiter?

Obras Cumbres, released in 2021.

Artist

Luis Alberto Spinetta

Luis Alberto Spinetta is a musical artist from Buenos Aires formed in 1967. 27 releases are catalogued on Riffiter.

Buenos Aires

27
Releases: 1971–2021
Active years: 1967
Formed

YouTube

Deezer

Singles & EPs

3

Collaborators

2

Upcoming shows

About

Luis Alberto "El Flaco" Spinetta (23 January 1950 – 8 February 2012) was an Argentine musician. As one of the most influential rock musicians of South America, together with Charly García is considered the father of Argentine rock. He was born in Buenos Aires in the residential neighbourhood of Belgrano. During his early childhood he was already listening to all kinds of music: folklore and tango, and a little bit later, rock. In 1967, amidst the repressive political climate, he formed a band called Almendra with his schoolmates. Contrasting with the backwards and authoritarian government of General Juan Carlos Onganía, Buenos Aires was undergoing a cultural blossoming based on new art expressions; the new generation, among sons of the middle class, were immersed in an effervescence that would not reappear in Argentina until 1983. Spinetta devoted himself fully to his own music. In his lyrics, there are influences of multiple writers, poets and artists like Arthur Rimbaud, Vincent van Gogh, Carl Jung, Sigmund Freud, Friedrich Nietzsche, Michel Foucault, Gilles Deleuze, Carlos Castaneda and Antonin Artaud, who has his name in the album Artaud. On 23 December 2011 he published on the…