MANDUKA + LOS JAIVAS: LOS SUEÑOS DE AMÉRICA

well, i'll try to explain good reasons in my english, so... excuse me for my grammar. I'm chilean and i like progresive rock. I want to introduce you this album because even for chileans isn't known at all. If we think (or know) about Los Jaivas music, we'll see this classic mixture of rock instruments and ethnics ones, like andean instruments (North of Chile, South of Bolivia, etc). But this album got a special development: added some brazilian sounds ( and instruments) in more songs, as "Ta bom ta que ta" and "Don juan de la suerte". The album features Manduka, brazilian poet and musician, who colaborated with Los Jaivas when both were in argentina ( Brazil and Chile were under bloody military governments). Then they performed this album, and enrich the sounds textures we knew in Los Jaivas music. It should be listened, of course, but i vote 4 stars, because this one as an experimental album is excellent, but there is another Jaivas's albums that deserve a masterpiece title, like Los Jaivas 1975, Alturas de Machu Pichu and Obras de Violeta Parra. That's all for a while Greetings from chile!

Pancho