Aditus Live
The Original Aditus was very different from today's Aditus.
The band was originally formed in San Jose de los Altos around 1969, like many other bands of the time we played wherever we could, but our ambitions were great.
Our first incursion of a certain relevance was when we were invited to the famous "Festival de Los Cocos" in the land that today occupies the Hotel Melia Caribe, in that concert (organized by the legendary Cappy Donzella) we were supposed to play with the best avant-garde bands rock for that moment, like for example the forgotten "Grupo Way".
Unfortunately, and typically, the festival just from the start the situation became chaotic and we could not even get on the stage because the police came and the festival was canceled.
In August 1, 1974,
At that time the lineup of the band was as following:
Nicolas Nevincenko: lead guitar
Carlos Enrique Atilano: rhythmic guitar
Sandro Liberatosciolli: bass
Edgar De Sola: drums & lead singer.
With this line up , the band began to make itself felt, we played every time we had an opportunity, we played at events at the Tamanaco Hotel as well as in many other places, but the place where we did repeated concerts was at the old Chacaito Theater, a businessman named Bulgaris spoke with our manager for that moment, Gustavo Atilano and hired us for a series of concerts that took place at midnight and ended at around three in the morning.
We interacted with bands like "La Cuarta Calle" and an English band called, if I remember correctly, "The Silver Band", for us those concerts were an excellent experience, the band was quite consolidated, the name that we used at the time was "Aditus ad Antrum", name that was later simplified to "Aditus Rock Band".
In mid-1972, our lead guitarist Nicolas Nevicenko left to the United States to attend college, our keyboardist, Jose Ignacio Lares knew Alvaro Falcon and Alvaro, brought George Henriquez as a singer. So finally, in this way, the band was consolidated as "Aditus". Also, by that time we had a clear style: Progressive Rock, complex, with complex time signatures, high energy and the maximum possible virtuosity on the part of all of the members.
The new alignment was as follows:
Alvaro Falcon: lead guitar
Jose Ignacio Lares: keyboard
Sandro Liberatoscioli: bass
George Henriquez: lead singer
Edgar De Sola: drums, vocals.
Carlos Enrique Atilano decided at that time to leave the band because he wanted to dedicate himself to the classical guitar, Carlos today is a recognized composer of music for classical guitar and currently lives in Los Angeles.
Our first big first concert with this new line-up was in March 1973, it was at El Teatro Don Bosco in Altamira, Gustavo and his team did a tremendous job promoting the concert and to our surprise, it was sold out. Following there were a series of concerts in the old Paris Theater, the Concresa Theater, Maestranza de Maracay, the Municipal of Valencia among others, all, were sold out!
The material was all original but also experimented a bit playing classics like "Tobacco Road" by Edgar Winter, "Stormy Monday" by Allman Brothers and "Rock n 'Roll Hoochie Koo" by Rick Derringer. The public loved these versions because the band interpreted them with great fidelity and energy. The concerts were an event in by themselves.
Recording a record at that time was almost impossible because "we were not commercial", we were actually proud of such comments because being “commercial” was the last thing we wanted to be, however, Hakon Brenner, brother of the late Vytas Brenner produced a 45 that we included here, and that was broadcast by the avant-garde stations for the moment.
Unfortunately, towards the end of 1976 stylistic differences began to appear among the members of the band, some of whom wanted to keep us in the hard, progressive and original line and others who wanted to be more "jazzed and commercial", coincidentally, at that moment I had the opportunity to go to Boston to study music at the famous "Berklee College of Music" opportunity that I took without any hesitancy.
Ignacio decided to form “Ficcion”, a progressive trio to which I joined after my return from the USA. “Ficcion” is still active and continues to maintain the pure line of Symphonic Progressive Rock.
Towards 1980 the Aditus was reorganized with a more popular style and of easy listening, reaching a lot of notoriety. The incorporation into the band of the talented Pedro Castillo was an important catalyst in this success. Today the band is still active and is led by George Henriquez and Valerio Gonzalez.
Edgar De Sola "Coqui"
