Indie rock and grunge band
The Amaroses was a Gran Canaria indie rock, grunge and garage band that won La Caja Sonora 2010 and became linked to the island’s early-decade alternative scene.
The project began in Gran Canaria with Rodrigo Furtado Leite and Demelza Cruz, first as an acoustic duo in 2009 and later as an electric line-up with Félix Henríquez and Coré Ruiz at the end of that year. The group won the fourth La Caja Sonora in 2010. That same year it released the EP Creating a Monster, and in 2011 it collaborated with Luke Donovan while preparing its first studio album.
Its importance lies in representing a Gran Canaria route into early-2010s indie rock, away from commercial pop and with an aesthetic tied to grunge and garage rock. The La Caja Sonora win and the attention received in the music press show a local alternative scene able to connect prizes, small labels and external collaborations.
The band builds on a guitar-driven electric base indebted to 1990s grunge, with lead voice and moments of dark blues, garage and alt folk. The group’s digital discography preserves that range through labels such as alternative, garage, grunge, rock and alt folk.
The Amaroses’ transmission remains in demos, an EP, digital release and connections with Creative Commons projects such as Mudrose. Its presence expands the map of Gran Canaria bands towards a scene of venues, contests and self-release that does not depend on the conventional music industry.
Rodrigo Leite, Dao and Demelza Cruz start the project in Las Palmas de Gran Canaria.
The band wins the fourth La Caja Sonora contest.
The EP Creating a Monster is released.
Soy Fans Disquera publishes the album on Bandcamp.
Tenerife
Since the twentieth century
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Gran Canaria
First performance in 1969; first album in 1970
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Gran Canaria
Active between 1965 and 1972; Ciclos was released in 1974
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