Hey, I’m back in the USA. The above pic was taken at an empanada joint in San Telmo, the old section of Buenos Aires. Argentinians reputedly love the Beatles and the Stones, and I’ve never seen so many Jaggeresque mullets in my life. Their homegrown music heritage ain’t nothing to sniff at either. Exhibit A: Almendra, psychedelic space warriors revered by some as the Beatles of South America. The band featured Luis Alberto Spinetta (more on him in a future post) and ‘El mundo entre las manos’ (roughly 'The World In Our Hands') was their first ever single, released in 1968. Two minutes of horn-sprinkled pop bliss, the song reminds me a bit of The Pretty Things' orch-pop sleeper Emotions, which came out around the same time. More Argentinian rock on the way...alas, piping-hot empanadas ain’t downloadable.
Almendra ‘El mundo entre las manos’ MP3
Almendra ‘El mundo entre las manos’ MP3
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