Vainica Doble
Vainica Doble
Probably the rarest and most sought after LP in the Spanish collector's market, the first album by Gloria Van Aerssen & Carmen Santonja is at last reissued in CD as it deserves. On the twelve songs they wrote for their debut album, originally released on Opalo in 1971, Vainica Doble blended folk, soft rock, pop and a dose of psychedelia to describe a magical world of their own with splendid Spanish lyrics and great arrangements that bring you echoes of the The Beatles, the Bristish Psychedelic Trip or The Incredible String Band without ever loosing their incredibly personal character that sounds so unique to today's ears as it did to those of 1971. The twelve songs of the original 1971 LP are here augmented with 8 bonus tracks, six of them taken from non-LP Vainica Doble singles (including both sides of their mega rare first 45 from 1970 "La bruja"/"Un metro cuadrado") plus two songs from the obscure single by Tickets, their backing band at the time, who recorded Vainica's penned "El rigor de las desdichas", with "Someone Like Me", a killer psychedelic fuzz-pop stomper, as its flipside.