Radiodiffusion Internasionaal Annexe

♬ Ayúdalos

Singer / guitarist Marco Tulio Guzmán, bass player Alexis Velásquez, drummer Alcides Monroy and percussionist Henry Velásquez formed Grupo Bota in Caracas, Venezuela in the early 70s. They would go one to record around twenty singles and five albums. The band broke up in 1979, Guzmán and Velásquez continued together under the name Los Bota.

The band’s fusion rock style had a huge influence on the Venezuelan music scene after their records gained cult status. Interest in the band had a resurgence in the mid-1990s after Los Amigos Invisibles covered the song “Dime” on their debut album A Typical & Autoctonal Venezuelan Dance Band. You can find the song “Solos” on the Soul Jazz Records‘ compilation Venezuela 70 Volume 2 (Cosmic Visions of a Latin American Earth: Venezuelan Experimental Rock In The 1970’s & Beyond).

Catalog number 59203 on Discos Dark of Venezuela, pressed in Colombia by Industria Colombiana. Released 1974.