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    Posted: 8 hours 4 minutes ago at 15:26
Indeed, for Luis each element in the picture represents a specific idea, to the point that each track is characterized by one of these elements:



Edited by Heart of the Matter - 7 hours 58 minutes ago at 15:32
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TIL that this iconic cover art (which I like to refer to as the Crying Plunger Guy) for the first Almendra album was drawn by Luis Alberto Spinetta himself. Fascinating.
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^ That's correct David. The label wasn't happy with the initial sale numbers, and they split the package in two. A friend of mine is the proud owner of both volumes of the original cassette issue, now a sought-after rarity.
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^ Thanks. Thumbs Up

I've added the 'Almendra en Obras' double live album from 1980 as two individual LPs, since they were packaged in individual jackets with different cover photos and catalogue numbers. The two discs were apparently sold together in the first instance though.
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Originally posted by yam yam yam yam wrote:

Almendra added to Crossover: https://www.progarchives.com/artist.asp?id=12915.


Great job people, thank you! I'll be adding more albums soon.
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Almendra added to Crossover: https://www.progarchives.com/artist.asp?id=12915.
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Originally posted by yam yam yam yam wrote:

No official evaluation has ever been started for these guys by a genre team. The Prog Folk team were notified in the first instance, and they moved the suggestion across to PSIKE (Psych/Space) in February 2022. One PSIKE team member commented at the time that if they belonged here anywhere, then he thought it would be in Proto Prog. They were never added to the Psych chart for an evaluation though, so as things stand the suggestion is stuck in limbo. Hopefully someone from the PSIKE team will notice that this topic has been re-awakened, and add them to their chart to get things moving again.


I'm not sure if Proto has the same standards as Related, where the group in question must pass through the halls of a valid subgenre first (and be rejected) before being considered, but let's finally look at them at PSIKE and see what's up. As it is, I keep thinking they've been added each time this thread gets resurrected and it's been screwing with my head for a few years now.
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From their reunion 1980 studio album, a song more on the Fusion/Crossover side of prog events:
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No official evaluation has ever been started for these guys by a genre team. The Prog Folk team were notified in the first instance, and they moved the suggestion across to PSIKE (Psych/Space) in February 2022. One PSIKE team member commented at the time that if they belonged here anywhere, then he thought it would be in Proto Prog. They were never added to the Psych chart for an evaluation though, so as things stand the suggestion is stuck in limbo. Hopefully someone from the PSIKE team will notice that this topic has been re-awakened, and add them to their chart to get things moving again.
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Hello again, I've expanded the bio in the OP with more detail concerning connections with other acts in the local prog scene, and some insight on their general historical influence. Let's see what you think!
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^ Thanks, that brought to my mind Hoy Todo El Hielo En La Ciudad, a micro-universe of prog delights within just 3'

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Nobody linked A Estos Hombres Tristes yet?

IMO it's their most prog-like song and probably the only one that can be clearly labeled as proto-prog or even full fledged prog folk or crossover prog. B)

Innovative structure ✔
Harmonic complexity ✔
Time signature changes ✔
Dynamic tension building ✔
Flashy solos ✔
Virtuosic instrumental performance (especially the bass) ✔
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Here they sound pretty psychedelic to me:





With a more heavy riffage, hard-hitting guitar solo, and jazzy flavor in the vocals:
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A seriously researched documentary on Almendra and their multiple relations with other prog and rock bands (in English, made & posted by Blood Wake):

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GhOB0y9RZQw&list=PLqyoYX2XbKbrcDpqbCiAU4ex4NkAq0XKc&index=1&ab_channel=Sean%27sMusicHunt

Original post: http://www.progarchives.com/forum/forum_posts.asp?TID=128698&PID=5993931&SID=3817260dz4ee54bc444dbb3d19ebb7076967593#5993931
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Originally posted by Heart of the Matter Heart of the Matter wrote:

^ OK, thank you Ken for keep me posted!

You're welcome!  Greg has some family issues at the moment so it may take a bit.  Sorry!
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^ OK, thank you Ken for keep me posted!
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there doesn't appear to have been much interest from psych.  One person said proto, and the others were silent.  I'll see what Greg thinks
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Their 2nd album (Almendra II) has been pointed out as the most psychedelic one.

Listen: https://open.spotify.com/album/4MsNzFYnP4twrraRWNFjqJ
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ok I will notify the Psych team
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