El Espiritu Del Vino is the third studio album by the Spanish rock

Spanish rock

Spain has produced a great variety of rock and roll.There have also been a number of acts who have incorporated the Celtic musical heritage of that region into Celtic rock sung in Spanish, like Celtas Cortos....

 band Héroes del Silencio

Héroes del Silencio

Héroes del Silencio was a Spanish rock band from Zaragoza, Aragón, Spain, formed by Juan Valdivia and Enrique Bunbury. During the 1990s they experienced success around Spain and the Americas, and in various European countries including Germany, Belgium, Switzerland, France, Serbia and Portugal...

, released in 1993. A double disc

Double album

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 special edition was released in December 2006 on EMI

EMI

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History

Recorded in 1993, "El Espíritu Del Vino" is considered the best album by Héroes del Silencio

Héroes del Silencio

Héroes del Silencio was a Spanish rock band from Zaragoza, Aragón, Spain, formed by Juan Valdivia and Enrique Bunbury. During the 1990s they experienced success around Spain and the Americas, and in various European countries including Germany, Belgium, Switzerland, France, Serbia and Portugal...

. The album contains hard rock

Hard rock

Hard rock is a loosely defined genre of rock music which has its earliest roots in mid-1960s garage rock, blues rock and psychedelic rock...

 songs and the lyrics were written by Enrique Bunbury

Enrique Bunbury

Enrique Ortiz de Landázuri Izardui , born August 11, 1967 is a Spanish rock singer-songwriter.Bunbury was born in Zaragoza, Spain. He got involved in music in the early 1980s, making his debut in a high school band called Apocalipsis, and later played along with Proceso Entrópico...

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The album had five singles: Nuestros Nombres, Los Placeres de la Pobreza, Flor De Loto, Sirena Varada and La Herida. It was certified Gold in Spain and was a success in Germany, Italy, France and other European and Latin American countries. Due to their success in Germany, the band released one of their festival performances on DVD. The song Nuestros Nombres got to first position in the Spanish charts and was a success in other countries as well.

Track listing

Personnel

• Enrique Bunbury
  Enrique Bunbury
  Enrique Ortiz de Landázuri Izardui , born August 11, 1967 is a Spanish rock singer-songwriter.Bunbury was born in Zaragoza, Spain. He got involved in music in the early 1980s, making his debut in a high school band called Apocalipsis, and later played along with Proceso Entrópico...
  
   - vocalist
• Joaquin Cardiel
  Joaquín Cardiel
  Joaquín Cardiel is a musician best known for his 10 years in the Zaragoza hard rock band Heroes Del Silencio.-Before Héroes del Silencio:...
  
   - Bass guitar
  Bass guitar
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• Juan Valdivia - Guitar
  Guitar
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• Pedro Andreu - Drums

External links

• [ El Espíritu del Vino] overview at Allmusic
• Heroes Del Silencio official Site