(Heavy Progressive Rock) Psiglo - Psiglo I & II - 1973/74 (1993), FLAC (tracks+.cue), lossless // Уругвай / Uruguay

A band from Uruguay including the future drummer of Crucis and future members of Asfalto.
The first album, Ideacion, (73) sounds rather raw and immature. The first half is hardly prog, but rather heavier bluesy rock like The Free, Humble Pie, etc, and some folky tracks with a more South American influence. Vocals are a bit like Uriah Heep. The first tracks are poor even from a classic rock viewpoint. The more proggy tracks appear later on: the instrumental "Nuestra Calma", with some nice keyboards, and "Piensa y Lucha", which sounds a bit like a less aggressive Deep Purple. "Piensa y Lucha" includes a short drum solo as well.
The second album (74) is much better. They start out rocky again, already this time more in the style of Asfalto.
Then two rather mid-tempo, folky songs follow showing their South American influences. On the last three tracks, the songs stretch to 7, 9, and 12 minutes.
The 7 minute track, "No Tiene Razon de Ser", reminds me of early 70s UK bands like Gracious (organ but no mellotron).
The next track is pretty similar with a lot of organ, flute, and guitar soloing. Good track.
The last track "Gil 1038" is their best IMO. Great, somewhat weird opening with organ and strange vocals (a bit like the opening on Minorisa by Fusioon). A spacey part with solos for guitar and organ follows. The track goes through various mood changes (spacey, folky, jazzy sax solo, etc.) Excellent track.
The quality of the compositions improves steadily on this album, almost track by track, so by the end they sound very promising. There is a 6 minute bonus track, very spacey and similar in style to the last three tracks of the album proper.
Interesting lyrics with social/political comments as well, though the dull and muffled sound quality could be better.
Unfortunately they broke up after this album probably because they were censored to silence in their "home markets" Argentina and Uruguay

Hailing from Uruguay, PSIGLO were formed in 1968 by Luis Cesio, Jorge Garcia Banegas, Cesar Rechac, Julio Dallier and Carmelo Albano. Jorge proposed the name "Psiglo" by joining the word "siglo"(century) with the first letter of psychedelic, because he said they were hanging around in the psychedelic era.
With an above average production level, their albums were indisputably strong, supported by the Vincent Crane/Jon Lord style of Hammond organ and the decisive Deep Purple guitar style. In 1973, with Ruben Melogno on the vocal duties, Gonzalo Farrugia on the drums, Luis Cesio on the guitar, Cesar Rechac on the bass and Jorge Garcia on the keyboards, PSIGLO managed to release their debut, "Ideacion", and achieve the first 'gold' status ever in Uruguay rock history. Then they started enjoying a sort of "stardom", though it wouldn't last long, since the lyrics started to have more of a political slant against the state of affairs in Uruguay - which delayed the release of their second and last album, "Psiglo II", issued in 1981.
"Psiglo II" showed a more mature band, showing their most Progressive efforts, with uich line-up changes as Cesar Rechac moving to guitars and Gustavo Mamut Munoz replacing Cesar on bass. "Psiglo II", however, was not as successful as "Ideacion" had been. Moreover, the musicians had already chosen to leave the country following the military coup of June 1973. Gonzalo Farrugia would later join Argentine Prog band CRUCIS, Jorge Garcia Banegas would join ASFALTO from Spain, and Hermes Calabria would join BARON ROJO, also from Spain.
PSIGLO are one of the most important bands in the history of South American rock, and an interesting example of early Heavy Prog.

Exact Audio Copy V0.99 prebeta 5 from 4. May 2009

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Psiglo / Psiglo 1 & 2

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