Derribos Arias
From Unearthing The Music
Derribos Arias was a Spanish post-punk band from the 1980s, part of the cultural movement known as the movida madrileña. Their raw, chaotic, sometimes melodic and sometimes cacophonic sound was influenced by post-punk, punk and psychedelia, often featuring an absurd humor defined by some as Dadaist or Surrealist.
Biography
Derribos Arias was a product of the creativity of Poch (Ignacio María Gasca Ajuña, † 1998), an extravagant, picturesque and excessive person. He is remembered as the protagonist of some of the most delusional episodes of the so-called Movida Madrileña.
Poch's first project with recorded output was Ejecutivos Agresivos (who released a single titled Mari Pili). Among the group's members were musicians who would later join bands such as Décima Víctima or Gabinete Caligari.
Poch later formed La Banda Sin Futuro. With this group, he recorded an album which remained unreleased and whose pirated copies, with songs like Nos van a desinfectar, became a collector's item.
Derribos Arias were active 1981 to 1987, but their recording activity ceased in 1984. In their golden years, 1983 and 1984, they recorded several singles which all had excellent reviews in the music press and a relatively good reception by the public, considering the nature of the music. In 1984 they released Disco Pocho, with a worse reception.
In the mid-1980s, Poch was diagnosed with Huntington's disease, a degenerative disease of the nervous system which impairs cognition and mobility and that would lead to his death in 1998.
In 1991, musicians, friends and admirers paid tribute to Poch, recording a double album called The Palest Boy on the Beach of Gros, a compilation with songs by Derribos Arias or by Poch himself alone, covered by formations such as Siniestro Total, Negu Gorriak, Gabinete Caligari, Glutamate Ye-Yé or Fangoria . The proceeds were used to help Poch when he entered the terminal phase of his illness.