Tabaco."Desintegracion" 1971 album

This Mega Rare Spanish Phychedelic Treasure Tabaco, from Barcelona released that lp in 1971 only in 50 copies.Reissued 2002 from Wah Wah records plus bonus track recorded straight from the master tapes.

Generally speaking, in the psychedelic era the further the music was formulated from its English-speaking cultural centers, the stranger and more garbled it became. Such was the case to some degree with the Spanish band Tabaco, which recorded the Desintegracion album in late 1971. Sung mostly in English, the record was a mishmash of punky garage rock with heavy blues and soul influences, fierce Santana-like instrumental rock with rocket noises (the title track), brooding psychedelia introduced by flamenco-like guitar, and easy listening flamenco-flavored pop balladry. Although longer on enthusiastic eclecticism than originality and top-level chops, it was a fitfully imaginative effort that, whether by unconscious virtue of the band's distance from the U.S. and U.K. or not, boasted a ragged eccentricity. The Barcelona group grew out of a band called Los Duendes, which in June 1971 set a world record by playing 27 hours of rock & roll nonstop. Shortly after that, their name was changed to Tabaco and more progressive influences were incorporated. They disbanded in 1973. ~ Richie Unterberger, Rovi..

Fantastic mega-rare Spanish heavy psych/rock album from 1971. Trippy effects, spacey guitars, funky bass and dreamy keyboards dominate what is essentially a funky blues based rock album in a similar vein to Cream/Hendrix etc. Stunning heavy psychedelic rock with a monstrous wah wah fuzz guitar and mixed with some of the most psychotic spaced out sound effects ever and all vocals in English It was recorded in Barcelona in 1971 in the same studios as Pan Y Regaliz. The album was released as a local pressing with a few hundred copy's only. The 2nd CD has an unheard version of the album and various outtakes.Easily one of the best Spanish psych albums..