It´s a complete pleasure and a real honour to introduce you to the magical world of VAINICA DOBLE, one of the most important, creative, special and endearing bands in the history of Spanish pop. Though it´s pretty difficult that you may have ever heard of them, this wonderful twosome formed by Gloria Van Aerssen and Mari Carmen Santonja have been working since the early seventies -yep, this is not a mistake!!!- and have released so far seven albums: “Vainica Doble”, “Heliotropo”, “Contracorriente”, “El Eslabón Perdido” (all in the seventies), “El Tigre Del Guadarrama” and “Taquicardia” (in the eighties) and “Carbono 14” (in 1997!).

The music composed, played and -beautifully- sang by these two lovable fairies of the woods is a very personal mixture of rock, traditional Spanish music and folk, to put it in a very simple way. A very important role is played by the words; to many, they have written some of the best Spanish lyrics ever. Their lyrics are full of fables, nursery rhymes and a sensitiveness that must have come from out of this world. Maybe that´s why VAINICA DOBLE never achieved any kind of commercial success, though they have always been supported by a small but undefatigable number of followers; some of them have eventually turned into some of the most important film makers, painters or musicians in the last years. Just to mention a name, LE MANS have always declared themselves fans of the magic spells of the twosome.