Comfort y Música Para Volar

MTV Unplugged: Comfort y Música Para Volar (Spanish for Comfort and music to fly) is a part-live, part-studio album recorded by Argentine rock band Soda Stereo. The first seven tracks were recorded live at MTV Studios in Miami, Florida, for the show MTV Unplugged. The remaining four tracks were Sueño Stereo outtakes recorded in studio. The album was released by BMG Argentina in 1996. It was also the first Latin band to depart from the use of only acoustic instruments, using for most of the televised set conventional "plugged" instruments. Proof of this paradox is the fading "Un" part of the word unplugged depicted in the album cover.

MTV Unplugged: Comfort y Música Para Volar
Live album / Studio Album by
Released25 September 1996
Recorded12 March 1996, on the Post Edge Studios, Miami, United States
GenreAlternative rock, space rock, psychedelic rock
LabelBMG Argentina/Ariola
Soda Stereo chronology
Sueño Stereo
(1995)
MTV Unplugged: Comfort y Música Para Volar
(1996)
El Último Concierto
(1997)
Comfort y Música Para Volar
Video by
Released22 January 2007
Recorded12 March 1996, on the Post Edge Studios, Miami, USA
GenreAlternative rock, neo-psychedelia, electronic music, acoustic rock, chamber pop
LabelSony Music
Soda Stereo chronology
El Último Concierto
(2005)
Comfort y Música Para Volar
(2007)
Gira Me Verás Volver
(2008)

Track listing

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  1. En la Ciudad de la Furia (feat. Andrea Echeverri) (At the City of Fury)
  2. Un misil en mi placard (A missile in my closet)
  3. Pasos (Steps)
  4. Entre caníbales (Among cannibals)
  5. Té para 3 (Tea for 3)
  6. Ángel eléctrico (Electric Angel)
  7. Ella usó mi cabeza como un revólver (She used my head like a revolver)
  8. Sonoman (banda de sonido)
  9. Planeador (Glider)
  10. Coral
  11. Superstar

2007 Release

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October 2007 saw the re-release of Comfort y Música Para Volar in both CD and DVD formats, featuring the complete MTV performance on audio and video respectively but without the Sueño Stereo outtakes included in the original release. The new tracks include the cover of Vox Dei's song Genesis, which aired on the MTV network but was not included on the first edition.

  1. Un misil en mi placard
  2. En la ciudad de la furia
  3. Entre caníbales
  4. Pasos
  5. Zoom
  6. Cuando pase el temblor
  7. Té para 3
  8. Ángel eléctrico
  9. Terapia de amor intensiva
  10. Disco eterno
  11. Ella usó mi cabeza como un revólver
  12. Paseando por Roma
  13. Génesis

Personnel

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Soda Stereo
Additional personnel
  • Tweety González: synthesizers, electric piano and sampler
  • Pedro Fainguersch: viola
  • Diego Fainguersch: cello
  • Ezequiel Fainguersch: bassoon
  • Andrea Echeverri: backing vocals on "En la ciudad de la furia"
  • Iain Baker: synthesizers in track 8

Certifications

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Region Certification Certified units/sales
United States (RIAA)[1] Platinum (Latin) 60,000

Sales+streaming figures based on certification alone.

References

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  1. ^ "American album certifications – Soda Stereo – Comfort y Musica Para Volar". Recording Industry Association of America. Retrieved 16 March 2022.