Cuasares

Afro-Progresivo was an extravagancy, in the widest sense of the word, that wouldn't have existed if it wasn't for a series of random events. The album is a collection of instrumental compositions which are difficult to sort into one genre. Ingredients from different latitudes can be noticed, of course, along with the implied southern Latin roots. The European lounge-library impressions and the raw African psychedelia immediately come to the mind. However, it was actually a much closer attempt to recreate the U.S. jazz-rock fusion numbers of the early 1970s, on a period where those sounds disseminated influentially throughout the Latin American continent.
The venture was carried out by an extraordinaire musician, Waldo Belloso, renowned pianist, who had done numberless cutting-edge works within Argentinean autochthonous music. Although nothing he did have similarities with Afro-Progresivo during his career, neither before, nor after said album. Except for the (unreleased) score of the 1969 sexploitation film "Juegos De Verano" (rated triple-X and premiered in 1973), whose original master tapes have been lost.
And part of the created was the result of the diversity of musicians that Waldo recruited for these studio sessions. An eccentric, divergent elements amalgam, combined to an inventiveness rarely found together on one same record. “Cuasares” and “Vertical” were co-composed by Hector Quattromano (under the pseudonym Mingó), a multi-instrumentalist who worked with Waldo in different recording sessions in those years.
Waldo Belloso has left us a wild hybrid, ravishing and delicately esoteric, which was inspired in the outer space and the cosmos. As his wife Zulema says: "Waldo was a tireless explorer of new sounds and rhythms, a true forerunner, who broke down barriers, and had no boundaries for his inspiration". The name Cuasares (Quazars) was certainly not casual, and reflects accurately this album, enigmatic, sublimely bright and fascinating.