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Official reissue. 1968 Peruvian garage psych classic. Following 1967's Segundo Volumen, Docena 3 would see the light of day a year later, highlighting the LSD world on the cover, in which they added more accentuated lysergic moments, the use of the Indian zither, plus Jorge Pomar on rhythm, and other technical novelties such as reverse tape effects, including anti-war and love messages. The album brings together some captivating songs of their own, plus surprising covers with surrounding sound arrangements. Shortly thereafter, the band would break up, but not before leaving us with another album to fulfill their contract, entitled Instrumental's (1968). The members would go on to separate careers with Pico's Los Nuevos Shain's, and Gerardo Manuel's The (St. Thomas) Pepper Smelter. They would reunite again in 2007, but it was not until this year 2021 that, thanks to Discos Monterey, a late sixties Peruvian rock summit is again available with excellent sound and respecting the original artwork.
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Official reissue. 1967 Peruvian garage classic. After consecutive reissues of Peruvian garage and psychedelic rock from the sixties and seventies, Discos Monterey couldn't miss the chance to resurface two of the most emblematic records of the period: 1967's Segundo Volumen and 1968's Docena 3 (DM 012LP) by Los Shain's, the "conjunto de conjuntos" (the band among bands), as they were called back then. Those fifteen-year-olds started in mid-1964 and would go on to make an impressive musical career that would make history with just four records for the IEMPSA label. They recorded their first LP El Ritmo De Los Shain's (1966), halfway between instrumental rock and garage. Its main architects -- Enrique "Pico" Ego Aguirre, on guitar, and Gerardo Manuel Rojas, on lead vocals -- introduced psychedelia in their second work called Volumen 2 (1967). They were accompanied by Beto Tataje on second guitar, Juan Carlos Barreda on bass, and Carlos Manuel Barreda on drums. The album contains, for the most part, their own songs, standing out their luminous melodies and a certain beat they themselves considered to be a product of the "enfermedad" (sickness), immersed as they were in "la onda", the groove of the era. An impressive album that also stood out for its sound and for the pioneering presence of the "fuzz tone" among other effects such as the tape echo or a harmonic distorter that were revolutionary in their day and that today still have an impact due to their enormous power.
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