Cosmic Visions Of A Latin American Earth: Venezuelan Experimental Rock In The 1970s & Beyond.
This is the second collection of music from Venezuela in the 1970s and beyond to be released on Soul Jazz Records. The album once again features innovative figures in the history of underground Venezuelan music, mostly unknown outside of their home country â?? their music a blending of progressive rock, jazz, experimental electronics and disco created mainly in the 1970s during a time when the country was both a cultural and economic powerhouse in Latin America - COSMIC VISIONS OF A LATIN AMERICAN EARTH
Two years on from the superb first volume of their Venezuela 70 series, Soul Jazz Records come through with a second helping. Cosmic Visions Of A Latin American Earth II is another hot-wired collection of the most forward-thinking rock music to emerge from Venezuela during the 1970s. Styles as far-flung as disco, prog, Latin jazz, psych-rock and more are all bent into innovative new shapes across these eighteen tracks.