Daurat Oest

The most elusive Edigsa 7@ gets its first ever vinyl reissue on Wah Wah An unsung moody garage folk/rock act Brenner-s Folk where the embryonic Pic/Nic (of @Cállate ni a@ fame) and featured a very young Jordi -Toti- Soler right after he had gone through Els Xerracs (who also had released an EP on Edigsa) drummer Jordi Barangé (also from Els Xerracs) and brothers Vytas and Haakon Brenner The Brenner brothers were born in Germany but grew up in Venezuela where their family had emigrated after the devastation of World War II The Brenner family would return several years later to establish in Europe first in Italy and later in Barcelona The new band started to rehearse under the name of The Vytas Brenner Quartet and their main influences came from american modern folk acts like Peter Paul and Mary or The Mamas & The Papas a o Not long after they started rehearsing a very young Jeanette joined them thus becoming Brenner's Folk Edigsa approached them and offered a contract for the recording of their only EP sung in catalan and issued in 1966 A showcase of their folk and folk rock influences the Brenner's Folk 7" is a lo fi garagey jewel that has become an elusive piece due to the importance that its band members would gather in years to come Toti Soler became the biggest master of guitar he went to psychedelic and progressive & jazz rock with Om prior to trading in his electric for a Spanish guitar and pioneering instrumental flamenco jazz rock fussion sound on his early solo albums He is still active nowadays he is one the biggest Catalan geniuses of modern guitar The Brenner brothers returned to Venezuela where Vytas became a big solo act recording the sought after LPs "La Ofrenda de Vytas" and "Hermanos" with his brother Haakon on production duties Vytas continued a solo carrer that would last until his premature death in 2004 at only 57 due to a heart attack Jeanette of course went on to lead the successful Pic/Nic along with Toti Soler and later enjoyed a successful solo career in the 1970s and 1980s plus a come back in the early 2000s