1979 – MELINGO’S ‘RING CLUB’ PRECEDINGS:
‘Theatre of The Invisible of Buenos Aires’

If Daniel Melingo founded his first musical theatre

laboratory in the ‘Ring Club’ group, then shouldn’t be

wrong saying that his previous participation in ‘Theatre

of The Invisible of Buenos Aires’ was his preliminary

technical project.

Constitutes a common misconception the assumption

that Daniel Melingo (Melingo), upon returning from

Brazil in 1980, immediately joined Miguel Abuelo’s

(Miguel Abuelo) band ‘Los Abuelos De la Nada’ by

playing sax, clarinet and doing vocals, and it is as well

uncertain that he did participate in 1981 debut singles

"Guindilla ardiente" and "Mundos in mundos".

Early 1979 Daniel Melingo travelled to the city Ouro

Preto, a municipium of the state of Minas Gerais, in

Brazil, where he met mime Olucaro Ocimotana who

had previously gained a significant success in the Sao

Paulo Bienal Arts Foundation with his unipersonal

spectacle ‘Magical Theatre: A mankind history in the

planet’. Daniel Melingo was so impressed by the

structure of musicalized theatrical sketches that he

joined playing clarinet to Juan Aguilar (acoustic guitar)

and chilean Esteban (surname to be confirmed) (device

operations). 

By September 1979, mime Olucaro Ocimotana’s

spectacle had evolved into a multimedia experience

touring, under the name of ‘Theatre of The Invisible of

Buenos Aires’, several brazilean cities including Sao

Paulo, Minas Gerais and Rio de Janeiro. These unique

shows, a combination of mime-music-dance & poetry,

marks Daniel Melingo’s first participation in a musical

theatre project. The performance in the city of Sabarà,

around 23 km East from the neighbor state of Belo

Horizonte, counted with the collaboration of Guillermo

Medin in charge of video tape recordings.

In June 1984 ‘Theatre of The Invisible of Buenos Aires’

gave their last performance before departing to Europe,

at FUNARJ’s Sala Cecilia Meirelles in Rio de Janeiro:

Olucaro Ocimotana (Producer, General Director, mime),

Mariangela Mascaretti (mime partner), Guillermo Medin

(Quistral, Final, Berklee College of Music 1983/1985

Composition Awards, Biorsi, Klhasch) (Musical Director,

keyboards), Luciano Bahia (keyboards), Josè Simian

(electric guitars), Jorge Varela (electric bass), Toni Aguiar

(wind instruments), Claudia Samanta (vocals); but by then

Daniel Melingo already had left the ensemble presumably

to play with Milton Nascimento.

In 1980 upon returning to Buenos Aires, Daniel Melingo

formed his own group called ‘Ring Club’ and the material

consisted of musicalized theatrical sketches which kept a

similar structure learned from mime Olucaro Ocimotana’s

‘Theatre of The Invisible’. The second set of shows named

‘Juicio oral al Dr.Moreau’ featured Miguel Abuelo (vocals,

 percussion), Gustavo Bazterrica (Gustavo Bazterrica)

(electric guitar), Juan del Barrio (Juan Del Barrio)

(keyboards), Miguel Zavaleta (vocals, keyboards) and

guest artists: ‘Los Hermanos Clavel’ and ’Las BayBiscuits’.

Legendary sister machines Roland Bass Line TB-303 &

Drumatix TR-606 used by keyboardist Guillermo Medin

in 1984 ‘Theatre of The Invisible of Buenos Aires’ Rio de

Janeiro show:

Although there aren`t soundtracks of Daniel Melingo

playing his soprano clarinet in the Sabarà show, it is said

that the event was caught on Single-8 film (Japanese Fuji

Film counterpart of  the worldwide renown Kodak Super-8

format). Nevertheless, there are rehearsal recordings of

‘Theatre of The Invisible of Buenos Aires’ that might still

be found around.

Theatre of The Invisible of Buenos Aires Playback URLs:

'Amor' (rehearsal).mp3 (10.01 MB)
http://www.mediafire.com/listen/udv1lb45q24dwjm/Teatro_de_lo_Invisible_de_BsAs_%2301_%27Amor%27_%28rehearsal%29.MP3
OR
http://mfi.re/listen/udv1lb45q24dwjm/Teatro_de_lo_Invisible_de_BsAs_%2301_%27Amor%27_%28rehearsal%29.MP3

'Oli na cidade' (rehearsal). mp3 (3.17 MB)
http://www.mediafire.com/listen/acyk310f1ihnbnd/Teatro_de_lo_Invisible_de_BsAs_%2302_%27Oli_na_cidade%27_%28rehearsal%29.MP3
OR
http://mfi.re/listen/acyk310f1ihnbnd/Teatro_de_lo_Invisible_de_BsAs_%2302_%27Oli_na_cidade%27_%28rehearsal%29.MP3

'Oli marionete' (rehearsal). mp3 (5.30 MB)
http://www.mediafire.com/listen/dysg4xs8c7thksi/Teatro_de_lo_Invisible_de_BsAs_%2303_%27Oli_marionete%27_%28rehearsal%29.MP3
OR
http://mfi.re/listen/dysg4xs8c7thksi/Teatro_de_lo_Invisible_de_BsAs_%2303_%27Oli_marionete%27_%28rehearsal%29.MP3