HOW WE LOST MADRID. CALIGARI GAZETTE, CARLOS VÁZQUEZ H.

Jaime Urrutia started wearing polka-dot shirts because Jordi Vila, the drummer for Loquillo y Trogloditas, saw them. Edi Clavo's sideburns were like Alberto García-Alix's. And Ferni Presas had the inscription "Gnade Uns Gott" on his bass guitar, influenced by German Expressionist cinema. The three of them, so similar yet so different, formed Gabinete Caligari in 1981 under the shadow of post-punk and broke up in 1999, ending up a shadow of their former selves. How We Lost Madrid is a compendium of newspaper clippings, interviews, and critical analysis through the testimonies of band members, musicians, managers, friends, and other key figures in the scene, such as Carlos Entrena, Enrique Bunbury, Servando Carballar, Pito Cubillas, Lars Mertanen, Phil Manzanera, Javier Andreu, Esteban Hirschfeld, Mikel Erentxun… “Camino Soria,” “Que Dios reparta suerte,” “Golpes,” “La culpa fue del cha-cha-chá,” “Cuatro Rosas,” “El calor del amor en un bar”… José Ortega y Gasset wrote that “the history of bullfighting is linked to that of Spain, so much so that, without knowing the former, it will be impossible to understand the latter.” This quote applies, then, to Gabinete Caligari, who, true to their roots, tempered the fortunes of rock and roll with their characteristic flair.

• Binding: Paperback
• Pages: 358
• Size: 220x140x20 mm.