Música Obscura

01 - Morrocoy
02 - Ofrenda De Miguel
03 - Tormenta De Barlovento
04 - Frailejon
05 - La Sabana
06 - Tragavenado
07 - Araguaney
08 - Canto Del Pilon

Vytas Brenner was born in Germany, but grew up in Venezuela. When I was a kid, I used to visit my Dad in Caracas every summer. Back in 1973 I remember looking for some cool Venezuelan music I could bring back home to the States to show my friends. This is one of the albums I found. I was blown away by Vytas Brenner. Vitas is a composer and performer. One of the great things about these songs, is the way he uses the typical Venezuelan instruments, like the four stringed cuatro, maracas, and Venezuelan harp, all mixed up with 70's style electronic synthesizers (Mini Moogs and Arps). All the songs are instrumental. A lot of typical Venezuelan sounding music, with an electronic blend. Some songs are very progressive sounding, others are classical in nature, all very interesting to listen to.

I did a needle-drop on my vinyl LP, but it was in pretty bad shape. I then found a copy of the out-of-print CD, so I decided to rip it instead. So the cover images are from my LP, but the music is off the CD. Sounds a lot cleaner.

Quote found on the Internet:
Highly regarded Venezuelan keyboardist, composer and arranger, who played piano, organ and synthesizer, whose albums "La Ofrenda De Vytas Brenner" and "Hermanos" are considered some of the best progressive rock to come out of Venezuela, died March 18 of a heart attack in Salzburg, Austria at the age of 57.

Musicians:
Vytas Brenner - Piano, organ, synthesizers, acoustic guitar, arranger, and producer
Pablo Manavello - Electric and acoustic guitar
Carlos Acosta - Bass
Frank Rojas - Drums
Jesus (Chucho) Chinchilla - Drums and percussion
Angel Melo - Cuatro
Ramon Hernandez - Harp
Alfredo Rojas - Maracas

Favorite Songs: Ofrenda De Miguel, Tormenta De Barlovento, and Tragavenado

Links:
Wikipedia
Bio & Discography
Vytas Brenner (1946-2004) (Spanish)

Encoded at 320K from CD. Includes album cover art and pictures from inside the album.

http://rapidshare.com/files/52157699/vbrenner_ofrenda.rar

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