Traffic Sound - Traffic Sound 68-69

Artista: Traffic Sound

Álbum: Traffic Sound 68-69
Año: 1993
Género: rock psicodélico / rock progressivo
Duración: 54:40
Nacionalidad: Peru

Lista de Temas:
01. I’m So Glad (3:14)
02. You Got Me Floating (4:12)
03. Sueno (3:16)
04. Sky Pilot (5:38)
05. Fire (3:11)
06. You Can’t Win (2:44)
07. Virgin (3:00)
08. Tell The World I’m ALive (4:17)
09. Yellow Sea Days (9:09):
-March 7th
-March 8th
-March 9th
10. Jews Caboose (4:33)
11. A Place In Time “You And ME” (1:00)
12. Simple (3:33)
13. Meshkalina (5:34)
14. Last Song (2:19)

Alineación:
- Manuel Sanguineti / voces, percusión
- Willy Barclay / guitarra
- Freddy Rizo Patron / bajo, guitarra rítmica, guitarra acústica
- Miguel Angel Ruiz / bajo
- Willy Thorne / teclados
- Luis Nevares / tambores, percusión, vibráfono
- Jean Pierre Magnet / saxofón, clarinete, flauta, congas

Nuestro gran Bob vuelve a traernos otro disco de los geniales peruanos de Traffic Sound. Esto es en realidad un CD con la reedición de sus dos primeros álbumes, junto con algún material inédito. Los temas de su primera infancia tiene más de garaje que de otra cosa, algo de pop y un poco de sabor psicodélico, mientras que el segundo es mucho más progresivo y con un fuerte sabor psicodélico.

Psychedelic and Prog Rock band from Peru. Traffic Sound was a Peruvian rock band founded in 1967 by (vocals), (rhythm guitar), (sax), (Willy "Wilito" Barclay) (lead guitar), (bass) and (Luis "Lucho" Nevares) (drums). Freddy and Manuel had met in school and played in Los Hang Ten's. Freddy and his older brother Jose originally thought of founding "Traffic Sound". The name was chosen because of their penchant for a traffic light, placed as a souvenir in the attic of the Rizo-Patróns house, where they held their practices, after a wild night in Lima. After a year of continued rehearsals and private shows they tried their luck at Peruvian psychedelic emporium The Tiffany with great success and recorded his first album "A Bailar Go Go" in 1968 with label MAG. It contained versions of songs by The Doors, Cream, Jimi Hendrix, Iron Butterfly and The Animals. In later albums they included their own music with a fusion of Andean and Afro-Latin sounds. They held gigs in Peru, Chile, Argentina and Brazil. Their second album "Virgin" (1969), all original material, catapulted them to legendary status especially because it contains the absolute icon of Peruvian Psychedelia, "Meshkalina". In 1970 they recorded another LP named "Traffic Sound", aka. III, aka. "Tibet's Suzettes", where they blend the Psychedelic spirit with an Andean folk sound, and give the necessary step to be closer than ever to progressive rock. In 1971 Braniff International Airways organized the first South American Tour of a Peruvian band, and Traffic Sound was well received in demanding markets such as Argentina and Brazil. After the tour they switched to bigger label Sono Radio and released four singles. At this point Willy Thorne left the band and was replaced by or (Miguel Angel Ruiz Orbegoso) on bass, with whom they recorded their last LP, "Lux". Incredibly, during a massive strike of Sono Radio workers the master tapes disappeared and were only found in 1996.

Para quienes no los conozcan, esta banda estaba en la vanguardia de la escena underground del Perú en los años 60 / 70, y es probablemente la banda peruana más conocida entre los coleccionistas, con discos altamente recomendados.

Y acá dejo las palabras de Bob... ah! y lo último, bájenlo rápido porque el anterior disco de esta banda fue puesto en cuarentena por el FBI ¿Fundación de Boludos Internacionales? y a Bob casi lo meten preso... así que antes de que gente indeseable pispeen este espacio, apúrense! he dicho...

Compilation containing on one CD two albums, the first - A bailar Go Go (1968) and the second - Virgin (1969).
"A bailar Go Go " is a compilation of the 3 singles released by Traffic Sound in 1968; only six tracks clocking in at 22 minutes length. They are all covers including "I'm So Glad" by Cream which is decent, "You Got Me Floating" and "Fire" by Hendrix also alright, "Sky Pilot" by Eric Burdon which is bad and Sueño by The Rascals which is alright. "Destruction" sounds like an early blueprint for "Meshkalina" with it's organ and saxophone chord combo. The sound is heavy psych with acoustic guitar, saxophones and heavy percussion similar to their later albums.
"Virgin" is great psychedelic rock ala early Grateful Dead but with exotic elements like the use of bongos on many of the songs, giving them extra rhythm. The acoustic driven tracks are the best here such as the title track with it's juxtaposition of a happy melody with melancholy lyrics. Other highlights include "Jews Caboose" featuring a wailing organ line, the fast tempo "Meshkalina" with it's wah wah guitar and ya ya ya's and "Tell the World I'm Alive", a beautiful ballad about religion or something. - 

RYM