EXOTIC SYMPHONIC PROG MACHU PICCHU LOS JAIVAS FLOWING KEYBOARDS

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MAJESTIC SOARING SYMPHONIC PROGRESSIVE BEAUTY                         

                                          Los Jaivas

            Altur As De Machu Picchu              

                                          CHILE - CBS - LIL 0003 

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RARE and HIGHLY recognized by world collectors as one of the lost progressive treasures ... Here, the scarce to find, especially MINT condition, original first pressing in lavish gatefold cover ....

This is one of the most celebrated progressive-rock albums to come out from the South American Continent, and one of the definitive highlights of the Chilean band Los Jaivas. The album is inspired by the amazing and mysterious beauty of the ruins of Macchu Picchu - located in Peru -and expressing a mystic reflection upon the contrast between the power of that ancestral beauty and the weakness of human nature, perpetually trapped by temporality and death. In this album you will find excellent entwined backing percussion, keyboards and harpsichord, the great and unique voice of Gato Alquinta, creative basslines and the more keyboards/moog-synth amid biting and soaring guitar all mixed with exotic Andean instruments, like the trutruca, quena, zampoña and ocarina. The final result is just wonderful. There is no words to describe how this album makes many progressive collectors feel.

- Gato Alquinta / lead vocals, electric and acoustic guitars, bass, cuarto, zampoña, quena, ocarina
- Mario Mutis / bass, electric guitar, zampoña, quena, vocals
- Eduardo Parra / electric keys, Mini-Moog, tarka
- Claudio Parra / grand and electric keys, mini-Moog, harpsichord
- Gabriel Parra / drums, percussion, xylophone, trutrucas, tarka, vocals

The dramatic progressive music is full of alternating joy, sadness, exaltation and melancholy, and is properly conveyed by the colourful compositions... these musical ideas are based on a perfect amalgam of Andean folk (lots of Andean pipes and hand drums in many places) and an eerie symphonic prog-rock, mostly influenced by Wish You Were Here- era Pink Floyd and vintage Genesis. The performances are tight, with the band working as a whole unit at keeping a sense of enthusiasm that can be perfectly perceived even by those who don't know Spanish and/pr are not familiar with South American rock bands. The duets of Alquinta's guitar and Eduardo or Claudio Parra's synths are really outstanding, and so are the grand piano parts played with superb elegance by Claudio Parra. After the brief intro 'Del Aire al Aire' (a sequence of Andean woodwind and percussives displayed on a background of synthetic wild wind), the 11-minute long epic 'La Poderosa Muerte' exhibits a series of varied passages that epitomize the maximum level of splendour contained in this album: a long eerie intro that leads to the cueca-based first sung section, next a stylized diablada, followed by a second cueca section that eventually leads to the explosive prog climax, ended with the sound of synthetic thunder. All diverse sections are fluidly intertwined. A special mention goes to that brief moment in which the ocarina and the Moog indulge in a game of responses until they almost melt into one single sonic source. Later on, the same epic ambitions of 'La Poderosa Muerte' remerge in the shorter 'Antigua América', although this time the chamber element is a bit more prominent, due to the stylishly Baroque use of clavinet in some passages. Between these two tracks, there are 'Amor Americano' (basically, an exciting Andean folk piece played with rock instrumentation) and the mesmerizing symphonic ballad 'Águila Sideral'. 'Sube a Nacer Conmigo Hermano' is the most popular tune: unlike the preceding repertoire, it is not based on Andean folklore, but the tropical lands of Venezuela - more exactly, it's a joropo reconstructed under the frame of rock and jazz fusion. The inclusion of this number doesn't break up the album's musical cohesion: on the contrary, it helps the band to make their point about human finitude as a genuine universal concern. The sensual joy that is inherent to the joropo allows the track 'Sube a Nacer.' to state an optimistic view about the destiny of all Latin American nations (awhile back there were still lots of cruel dictatorships functioning in South America). But then again, 'Final' closes down the album with a resumed sense of melancholy: Alquinta's whispering vocal and the flowing piano arpeggios remind us of the fact that the river of one man's life is destined to end up in the immense sea of death. In conclusion: an excellent addition to any good progressive rock collection...

• 1. Del Aire al Aire  = Air to Air (2:14)
  2. La Poderosa Muerte = The Powerful Death (11:08)
  3. Amor Americano =  American Love (5:26)
  4. Aguila Sideral (5:19)
  5. Antigua America = Old America (5:37)
  6. Sube A Nacer Conmigo Hermano = Add My Brother Born (4:47)
  7. Final  (2:33)

CONDITION: The cover: The fragile gatefold cover is bright and colorful, crisp and solid, strong M- top copy with no bends, no writing and no split seams.... 

The vinyl: both sides are top level clean and glossy M- look and play beautiful ... 

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A GREAT ADDITION TO ANYONE'S COLLECTION !

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