Carmina Burana

During the mid-eighties Carmina Burana raised as a "rara avis", ahead of their time and ignoring any conventional sound. Influenced by post-punk British bands and prog-rock artists like King Crimson, Carmina Burana mixed in their songs all kind of surreal sounds, with mostly depleted instruments and practically indecipherable lyrics, but despite all this, they signed throughout their trajectory two of the best pieces written by a Spanish band, "El Telar de la Locura" and "De las Danzas Apócrifas". Carmina Burana formed in Valencia in 1983, and its original line-up was formed by Manolo Fernández (voice and guitar), Andrés Blasco (bass and violin), and José Carlos Pernías (guitar). 

After several concerts they got the opportunity to record their first album in the form of EP, 'El Telar de la Locura', in 1985. It was recorded at the Trak Studios in Madrid in August 1985, and produced by the band itself and Eugenio Muñoz. 

At the end of 1986, Plataforma Discos released a shared promotional single together with Karmas Colectivos, with a special remix of "De Las Danzas Apócrifas". Already in 1987, and through a newborn record label of Valencia, Plataforma Discos, the first Carmina Burana LP appeared. For this album, Carmina Burana became a quartet, with Dani Arlandis playing the drums. The album had the inestimable production of Joe Dworniak and Duncan Bridgeman, former members of I-Level, recorded in the Alcoceber studios of Castellón. A limited edition promotional single was extracted for the magazine Rock De Lux, with songs "De las Danzas Apócrifas" and "Entre Lineas de Lamentos". 

The English label Midnight Music published that year 1987 its first self-titled album in Europe and North America, with the songs recorded in English and titled 'The Apocryphal Dances'. The songs were mixed in Alaska in February of 1987 by Nick Raph and the album gained much more success in countries such as United States, Canada, Holland or Belgium than in Spain. Midnight Music included "Now (Like The Time)", the English version of "Ahora Si (Sobre el Lugar que Ocupan las Esferas en el Espacio)", for a compilation LP shared with other bands in its catalog titled 'Diamonds In Darkness', with bands like The Essence or Karmas Colectivos, whose debut album, 'The Last Dream', was edited by the label in its English version. 

It was not until the end of 1991 when Carmina Burana issued its last full length with the Madrid label Triquinoise Producciones, thanks to a demo that came to them through its countrymen Amor Sucio. The album was recorded in April of that year in the Pertegás Studios of Chirivella (Valencia), having as a sound technician the ex-Video Vicente Chust.

The latest recordings of Carmina Burana appeared in a couple of compilations. In 1991 the Tritón Rock label was born in Valencia exclusively to accommodate several groups that stepped on the stage of the Babia Bar, closed on 1991. The album came out of concerts offered by several bands that stepped on its stage as Carmina Burana, Amor Sucio, Doctor Divago, Vamos a Morir, 713avo Amor, Club 430, Rubber, Superelvis, The Joke and 1 Komunion. Their next and last contribution arrived in 1993 from Triquinoise Productions, which published a record titled 'Deficit'. It gathers several bands from its catalog such Malcolm Scarpa, Corcobado, Pachuco Cadaver, Amor Sucio or Ebria Danza among others, and Carmina Burana, who at that time had already dissolved. [SOURCE: GRUPOS NACIONALES NUEVA OLA 80]