PSYCH PROG ROCK PERU TRAFFIC SOUND VIRGIN LP

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TRAFFIC SOUND

“VIRGIN”

First fully original  Traffic Sound LP

 Considered by many one of the ten best bands of the early progressive years. What's especially significant is this is one of those bands that sparked the Dawn of Progressive Rock on planet  Earth.

After their first "full covers" LP "A bailar Go Go" (probably the worst name ever for a psych/prog album) , along came "Virgin"  the first truly (and fully) Traffic Sound's album with original themes. These compositions  were created within the frame of a unified, incredibly original stylistics, each of them, taken separately has some special characteristics of their own. Tell the World I'm Alive, containing wonderful interplays between acoustic guitar and organ passages and solos of sax and bass, apart from other arrangements, and Manuel Sanguineti's always excellent performance on percussion is especially impressive here. The longest track Yellow Sea Days is the most progressive composition of "Virgin". It contains a wide variety of diverse vocals  and instrumental arrangements with all electric and acoustic instruments in a game, a lot of heavy riffs, electric guitar and flute separate solos and unique trio-interplays between the sax solos and piano and acoustic / classical guitar passages. Also, this song is especially rich in complex time signatures, sudden changes of musical direction along with tempo, etc. Apart from the remarkable joint instrumental arrangements, Jews Caboos contains the most noticeable vibraphone solo as well as interplays between organ and vibe. Even if Jean Pierre Magnet wasn't the first multi-instrumentalist in the history of Rock music, he was the most talented one, at least. The work of the rhythm section is tight here, as always, while the varied percussives add new exotic colours to an overall musical palette. The longest and most virtuosic solos of electric guitar are also on this track as well as interplay between them and strident sax solos. Meshkalina is the album's only composition where there are most of the solos and arrangements go uptempo to very fast. Classically, diverse, very interesting and original instrumental arrangements work each song throughout, including all the vocal parts too (which is always especially impressive). The outstanding track Last Song is instrumental played only with an acoustic guitar.

This is a very nice copy of Virgin, probably the best listening copy I've ever heard with only a few seconds of surface sound at the beginning of "Meshkalina", it's very hard to find a copy of this impressive record in this outstanding conditions.

Manuel Sanguinetti....Lead Singer and Percussion
Willy Barclay....Lead Guitar, Acoustic and vocals
Freddy Rizo Patron....Rythm Guitar and vocals
Willy Thorne....Bass, Organ, Piano and vocals
Jean Pierre Magnet....Tenor Sax,, Flute, Percussion
Luis Nevares....Drums, Vibraphone and Percussion

FACTUAL STUFF

Artist:  TRAFFIC SOUND

Title: VIRGIN

Format: 12" LP

Label: MAG

Catalog: LPN 2382

Pressed by: SICA

Year: 1969

Condition

Cover: VG ++keeps it's glosiness, some spine wear

Back/Gatefold Cover: VG+/VG++-EX

Vinyl

Side A

VG+/EX

Side B

VG +

Labels

A (Tomorrow) VG+

B: (Today) EX

TRACKS

1.   VIRGIN

2.    TELL THE WORLD I'M ALIVE

3.    YELLOW SEA DAYS (MARCH 7, MARCH 8 & MARCH 9)

4.    JEWS CABOOSE

5.    A PLACE IN TIME CALL "YOU AND ME"

6.    SIMPLE

7.    MESHKALINA

8.    LAST SONG

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