''MTV Unplugged: Comfort y Música Para Volar'' (Spanish for ''Comfort and music to fly'') is a part-live, part-studio album recorded by Argentine rock band
Soda Stereo. The first seven tracks were recorded live at MTV Studios in Miami, Florida, for the show
MTV Unplugged
''MTV Unplugged'' is an American television series on MTV. It showcases recorded live performances of popular music artists playing acoustic instrument, acoustic or "unplugged" variations of songs. The show aired regularly from 1989 to 1999. F ...
. The remaining four tracks were
Sueño Stereo outtakes recorded in studio. The album was released by
BMG Argentina in 1996. It was also the first Latin band to depart from the use of only acoustic instruments, using for most of the televised set conventional "plugged" instruments. Proof of this paradox is the fading "Un" part of the word unplugged depicted in the album cover.
Track listing
#
En la Ciudad de la Furia (feat.
Andrea Echeverri) (In the City of Fury)
# Un misil en mi placard (A missile in my closet)
# Pasos (Steps)
# Entre caníbales (Among cannibals)
# Té para 3 (Tea for 3)
# Ángel eléctrico (Electric Angel)
#
Ella usó mi cabeza como un revólver (She used my head like a revolver)
# Sonoman (banda de sonido)
# Planeador (Glider)
# Coral
# Superstar
2007 Release
October 2007 saw the re-release of Comfort y Música Para Volar in both CD and DVD formats, featuring the complete MTV performance on audio and video respectively but without the
Sueño Stereo outtakes included in the original release. The new tracks include the cover of
Vox Dei's song
Genesis, which aired on the MTV network but was not included on the first edition.
#Un misil en mi placard
#En la ciudad de la furia
#Entre caníbales
#Pasos
#Zoom
#
Cuando pase el temblor
#Té para 3
#Ángel eléctrico
#Terapia de amor intensiva
#Disco eterno
#
Ella usó mi cabeza como un revólver
#Paseando por Roma
#Génesis
Personnel
;Soda Stereo
*
Gustavo Cerati
Gustavo Adrián Cerati Clarke (11 August 1959 – 4 September 2014) was an Argentine musician and singer-songwriter who gained international recognition for being the leader, vocalist, composer, and guitarist of the rock band Soda Stereo. He is ...
: lead vocals and backing vocals, guitars
*
Zeta Bosio: bass, electric-acoustic guitar and backing vocals
*
Charly Alberti: hybrid drums
;Additional personnel
*
Tweety González: synthesizers, electric piano and sampler
* Pedro Fainguersch: viola
* Diego Fainguersch: cello
* Ezequiel Fainguersch: bassoon
*
Andrea Echeverri: backing vocals on "En la ciudad de la furia"
* Iain Baker: synthesizers in track 8
Certifications
References
Soda Stereo albums
MTV Unplugged albums
1996 live albums
Sony Music Argentina albums
Spanish-language live albums
Spanish-language video albums
1990s Spanish-language albums
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