Kaleidoscope / Laghonia - Etcetera (1969/71 Caribbean & Peru) | Latin Psych | Vinyl Stream

For today's psychedelic trip this morning I'm spinning two essential Latin American psych records back to back - the self-titled Kaleidoscope album on Guerssen GUESS255, 2024 red/white vinyl reissue, and Etcetera by Laghonia on World In Sound RFR-024, 2004 German double LP gatefold with bonus 7 inch. 00:00 Intro 2:41 Kaleidoscope (1969 DR) 41:39 Laghonia (1971 Peru) 1:18:30 7" that came with World in Sound reissue 1:33:13 Closing Kaleidoscope formed in 1967 in San Juan, Puerto Rico - teenagers Frank Tirado and Orly Vázquez obsessed with the Beatles and British psychedelia. Dominican organist, Dominican drummer, Spanish guitarist. Recorded in Santo Domingo in January 1968. The manager took the tapes to Mexico and Orfeon pressed 200 copies as a test. Most went to radio stations. Almost none reached retail. Every track sung in English. The cover designed by German artist Bodo Molitor. Clean original copies now sell for over $10,000. Researcher Enrique Rivas tracked down every original band member decades later and made every legitimate reissue possible. Laghonia formed in Lima in 1965 as New Juggler Sound - brothers Saúl and Manuel Cornejo, inspired entirely by the British Invasion. American-Peruvian David Levene joined in 1968 and pushed them toward heavier psychedelia. Carlos Salom on Hammond B-2 made them one of the first South American bands to record with one. Two albums released in the same year - 1971 - while Peru's military government under Velasco Alvarado was treating rock as American cultural imperialism and nearly banning it outright. Etcetera is the more ambitious of the two - progressive rock elements, early Jethro Tull and King Crimson alongside Hendrix and Cream. The Cornejo brothers went on to form We All Together, a band that ended up on Nuggets II. Caribbean psych and Andean psych. One morning. Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/vinyl_piper/ Full vinyl rips playlist: https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLj0yF7-9YQ9pEOi1yCUyAZikNmWVdz8Hn Shop: https://vinylpipershop.com/ #Kaleidoscope #Laghonia #LatinPsych #VinylStream #VinylPiper #MorningStream #PeruvianPsych #PuertoRico #DominicanRepublic #Peru #RareVinyl #GaragePsych