''El nervio del volcán'' is the fourth and final album by Mexican
rock
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band
Caifanes, released in the summer of 1994.
With bassist
Sabo Romo
Salvador Sabo Romo is a bass and guitar player, composer and producer. He was born in Mexico City.
Interested in music since childhood, he played drums, wrote songs and sang on his first band. At eighteen he discovered the bass, and formed “Ma ...
and keyboardist Diego Herrera out of the band since the previous year, Saúl Hernández (vocals), Alfonso André (drums), and Alejandro Marcóvich (guitars) were the remaining band members left to record Caifanes' fourth studio album in
Los Angeles,
California between February and April 1994. The album included the hit singles "Afuera" and "Aquí no es así".
A tour began throughout Mexico, United States, Central America, Colombia, Chile, and Argentina, ultimately ending with the band dissolving on August 18, 1995 on their final show in
San Luis Potosí
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, Mexico. Hernández later formed a new incarnation of his previous band,
Jaguares, due to legal disputes and fallout with lead guitar Alejandro Marcóvich.
Guest artists included
Graham Nash,
Stuart Hamm,
Federico Fong, Yann Zaragoza and Cecilia Toussaint.
Track listing
Personnel
Caifanes
*
Saúl Hernández – vocals, 2nd rhythm guitar on "El año del dragón"
*Alejandro Marcovich – electric and acoustic guitars,
EBow on "Miedo" and "La Llorona"
*Alfonso André – drums, percussion, drum programming on "Hasta que dejes de respirar"
Guests
*
Federico Fong – fretted and
fretless basses
*Yann Zaragoza – piano, Hammond organ, synthesizer (except on "Aquí no es así")
*Cecilia Toussaint – choirs on "Afuera", "Aquí no es así", and "Hasta que dejes de respirar"
*Lenny Castro – percussion
*
Stuart Hamm – fretless bass on "Quisiera ser alcohol"
*
Jerry Hey – trumpet on "Quisiera ser alcohol"
*
Jerry Goodman – electric violin on "El animal" and "Pero nunca me caí"
*
Graham Nash – harmonica on "Pero nunca me caí"
*Jeffrey "Marty" Vanston – synthesizer on "Aquí no es así" and "Ayer me dijo un ave"
Certifications
References
Caifanes albums
1994 albums
Albums produced by Greg Ladanyi
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