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PREORDER
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01. Grupo Amigos - No Sabes Que Me Siento Bien
02. Grupo Amigos - Mujer
03. Grupo Amigos - Dama
04. Grupo Amigos - Son Las 5
05. Grupo Amigos - En El Campo
06. Grupo Amigos - Everybody Is Free
07. Grupo Amigos - Ensueño
08. Grupo Amigos - El Tren Del Señor Taylor
09. Grupo Amigos - Atardecer De Un Verano
10. Grupo Amigos - Buscando Un Hogar
11. Grupo Amigos - Psiquiatra
12. Grupo Amigos - Dirty Girl
ARTIST
TITLE
Paloma Mensajera
FORMAT
LP

LABEL
CATALOG #
MR 474LP MR 474LP
GENRE
RELEASE DATE
9/19/2025

Paloma Mensajera (featuring members of New Juggler Sound/Laghonia) shows the shift that was taking place within Peruvian rock away from psych and hard rock which had predominated during the early '70s. The style adopted by Grupo Amigos (and other bands and artists during this period) highlights the influence of soft rock, UK, US and Latin American folk rock and, above all, the desire to keep the melodic greatness of The Beatles alive. The positive reception albums by artists such as We All Together, Telegraph Avenue, and Zulu garnered between 1972 and 1975, marked a change of paradigm and in preferences within the Peruvian rock scene. Eclecticism gained new ground, to the detriment of the sectarian and orthodox, while melody grew more present and visible, moving away from the progressive experimentation that typified underground Peruvian rock up to the beginning of the '70s. For their first single on MAG, included on this reissue, the band adopted a formula in which Beatles harmonies converged symmetrically with folk motifs. "Dirty Girl" was a hit on the radio. A full album followed but only a fairly small number of copies of the album were pressed, which seems to have been the main reason for omitting it from the historical accounts of Peruvian rock music from the late '90s onwards. In Paloma Mensajera all compositions were penned by the group, after several years during which cover versions were a staple. Some of the musical resources that the band had at their disposal in terms of composition and arrangements are striking and even surprising, considering that they were a debut band, whose members were under the age of 20. The arrangements included the clever use of a Moog synthesizer which had just arrived at the MAG studio. The success achieved by the Beatles tribute performances played by the members of Grupo Amigos for decades have eclipsed the songs that Edmundo, Andrés Da Ros, and Simón Ames composed with youthful enthusiasm and energy between 1972 and 1973 to the point where they have almost been forgotten. This re-release of Paloma Mensajera should help rectify this major injustice. It includes bonus tracks and extensive liner notes.