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Kaleidoscope - Kaleidoscope

Track listing:
  1. Hang Out 2:20
  2. P.S. Come Back 2:11
  3. A Hole In My Life 2:33
  4. Let Me Try 3:28
  5. I Think It's All Right 3:00
  6. Colours 2:36
  7. Once Upon A Time There Was A World 8:09
  8. A New Man 2:38
  9. I'm Crazy 3:33
  10. I'm Here, He's Gone, She's Crying 2:27

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Incredible Mexican mind expander from the late '60s that could have easily been on an 'Endless Journey' comp. Mind frying fuzz guitars, electronic psychedelic effects, swirling keyboards and drugged lyrics/vocals in English. A major find for fans of the genuine article.

The Mexican Kaleidoscope's sole, self-titled album is like many American '67-'68 psych-garage obscurities in its morose, frequently minor-keyed blend of ominous organ and fuzz guitars.Yet mucho eccentricity and spontaneity make it more interesting than many such relics.

That organ really vibrates with a menace, sometimes like a distant cousin to the Doors, but with a more adolescent, untutored sensibility.

Although the vocals (all in English) are often lovelorn laments, they drip with snarling attitude veering from don't-give-a-damn bluesiness to abject self-pity, mixing in a psychedelic sense of disorientation that sets the songs aside from the more conventional romantic lyrics of earlier mid-'60s garage bands.

And some goofy psychedelic touches appear without warning, like the cheap outer space signals in "Colours"; the Harpo Marx-like horn interjections in the same tune; the atomic explosion that ends "Hang Out"; the out-of-nowhere distant, cornered-wolf yells of "A New Man"; the weird, slightly off-key plunks of "I Think It's All Right," which ring like a tapped wine glass; and the funk rock guitar of "I'm Crazy," which sounds halfway between a chicken-scratch and a drawer being opened and closed, giving way to a harem organ.

Then there's the eight-minute "Once Upon a Time There Was a World," which sounds like an unwitting parody of suicidal teenage angst in its over-the-top sorrow for itself, yet backed with a creepy organ-fuzz arrangement of almost funereal grandeur

01.Hang Out - 2.20
02.P.S. Come Back - 2.10
03.A Hole In My Life - 2.33
04.Let Me Try - 3.27
05.I Think It's All Right - 2.59
06.Colours - 2.36
07.Once Upon A Time There Was A World - 8.09
08.A New Man - 2.38
09.I'm Crazy - 3.33
10 - I'm Here, He's Gone, She's Crying - 2.27