Latin American Prog WC: Laghonia- Decibel

 

It's funny that you mention that. It's obvious that I have no knowledge of most of the bands participating on the tournament. So when that happens, I usually tend to read some of the reviews too see which are the stand out tracks to post, and in that way, be fair with both bands competing.

 

When deciding which Laghonia tracks to post, I happened to be reading your reviews. Here's what you wrote about those tracks:

 

"Lonely People" starts with a dramatic organ sound that suddenly vanishes to leave the lead to one of the most absolutely beautiful guitar sections that take us back to the late 60's (Electric guitar played in an acoustic style). Even though it's clearly a Psychedelic track, there's something that reminds me of early Beatles despite there's no musical relation, but after listening over and over I believe that Carlos Guerrero takes the lead vocals at some moments (for the first time) and this guy has a very similar vocal range to John Lennon, so possibly that's the reason.

But the song continues developing with extremely powerful organ sections, heavy distorted wah-wah guitars, radical changes and complex arrangements until the powerful ending that according to some stories made the people who had smoked funny stuff to almost introduce their heads in the loudspeakers, a 100% Progressive track.

 

"Glue" as I said before was written by Saul Cornejo who was inspired by a drug he read about in Time Magazine and released as a single in 1968 - 1969 before taking the name for their first album

Wonderful song, 100% druggy Psychedelia, distorted guitar, dreamy organ and hallucinating lyrics, describes the genre was as a book, excellent that sounds like if Hendrix meets early Pink Floyd.

 

 

Anyway, it's great that you took the time to post more tracks to show more of the band's skills. I wish more people would do that. It would make the competition richer.

 

Final Score: Decibel 6- Laghonia 5