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The second single from Color de Trópico is a progressive-electro-psych-funk-tropical comet on a path to extinguish perversity and bad vibes, a journey of healing in a Venezuela full of hope.
Following on from Hugo Blanco’s “Guajira con arpa”, an unapologetic fusion of Venezuelan music with the rhythmic power of the Caribbean, El Palmas Music are set to release the second single from the compilation album Color e Trópico. “Tú y yo” by Almendra sinks its teeth into progressive rock, but makes the genre rmly its own. A hospitable “¡chévere!” (how cool!) begins the track, harking the entrance of cosmic sounds aplenty, with imagination now free owing. We go from soul to disco and end up in psychedelic funk with two interlaced basses (two basses? Yes, this song is a bomb) and a Moog. The addition of choirs, funky guitars and percussion lead to a sensory escalation. But beyond this orchestral kaleidoscope there is also a feeling, a richness of colour, a taste of victory that comes from each new sound conquered by the group.
When Almendra formed in 1978, Venezuela was experiencing unprecedented times. Democracy was taking hold, economic properity was being sustained and the price of oil had taken an exponential leap that accelerated the government’s plans to nationalize the industry of “black gold”. From that moment on, money enters at a disproportionate rate and all the indications are that Venezuela is on a rocket to a developed future. “Tú y yo” appears at that exact moment, in a vigorous, dynamic, cosmopolitan, changing capital, just like the track itself, halfway between ardent passion and unbridled fantasy.
The group’s members, Robert Valerio (acoustic guitar, vocals), Rodolfo Spitaleri (electric guitar), Enrique Santana (drums, percussion, vocals), Enrique Dof ny (bass, vocals), Miguel A. Cueto (keyboards) and Gustavo Vargas (percussion) have left this great legacy that El Palmas Music recovers, rarely reissued until today, where the mastery of technique and imagination are combined with a fantastic range of styles and rhythms that go from rock to Afro-Latin rhythms through jazz, funk and disco. Almendra came to Venezuelan music like a comet, leaving an imprint undeniable in the groups that followed in their wake.
Almendra’s “Tú y yo” is the second single from Color de Trópico, a compilation LP (digital and vinyl) curated by El Palmas and El Dragón Criollo, which immerses us in the musical explosion that modernized the Venezuelan sound from 1966 to 1978.
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