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CONGREGACION

VIENE

LP VG+

CHILEAN PSYCH

IRT IL-108 LPVE-6558 1972 MONO

A TRULY RARE LP

NO POSTER

THERE IS SOME VERY LIGHT PLAY WEAR. THERE IS A LIGHT SCRATCH ON SIDE 2. THERE IS STILL PLENTY OF GLOSS/SHINE ON THE VINYL. PLAY GRADED AND IT SOUNDS AMAZING. EMAIL ME QUESTIONS

AS FOR SHIPPING I AM SURE THE BUYER WILL WANT INSURANCE AND CONFIRMATION. THE DAY AFTER THE RECORD IS WON AND I HAVE YOUR ADDRESS I WILL CALCULATE SHIPPING COST WITH YOU.

FOR THOSE OF YOU WHO MAY HAVE BID ON THIS THE FIRST TIME AROUND, ACCORDING TO EBAY THE WINNING BIDDERS ACCOUNT WAS HIJACKED. SO HERE WE ARE AGAIN. GOOD LUCK.

HERE'S WHAT SOME CRITICS HAVE SAID:

This is a real nice gem, really, in psych / prog folk pop style. "Congregación and his only LP, was released byn IRT label in 1972. It was, arguably, the best album produced in Chile along our rock history. Well, the guru and only brain behind Congregación is Antonio Smith, a very gifted musician, wrapped in a mystic and existentialism themes. He yet working in very different areas, like ecology, poetry, education, literature and, of course, producing very eclectic music. Congregacion was a very personal project of Antonio Smith and, believe or not, isn't influenced for LSD or other drugs form the psychedelic era. By the way, in the own words of Smith. Antonio was for very long time a mythic and mysterious figure inside Chilean popular music. Certainly, in the recent years, Chilean researchers and journalists meet him and began reconstructive the formidable legend of Congregacion. ---psychedelicfolk.com

An undeniably beautiful gem from the early-70s Chilean underground, Congregacion's album Viene is a rarely heard masterpiece full of delicate atmospherics and dreamy textures. Congregacion (not to be confused with those other OM Chilean favorites Congreso) were a group spearheaded by the apparently mythical figure of Antonio Smith, whose progressive and hopeful lyrics no doubt earned him the enmity of the Chilean military dictatorship; he was forced to flee the country and Viene proved to be Congregacion's only release. I personally think that if things had worked out differently this album would be held in as high regard as comparable masterpieces like Milton Nascimento's Clube de Esquina or Joyce and Nelson Angelo's eponymous work from the same year as the present release. Viene shares with those albums a highly evocative sense of space, using natural sounds and lots of acoustic textures to foreground Smith's soaring melodies. The results are incredibly romantic, and this is one of those perfect albums that works just as well on a Sunday morning as it does late on any given night. Like another album that Viene reminds me of, Bulent's Benimle Oynar Misin, it has just the perfect balance of gently arranged pop and plaintively sorrowful folk. This is a very highly recommended album that is surely one of the pinnacles of Latin American folk. [MK] ---from OTHER MUSIC

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