PIGMY – manifestacion (LP Vinyl)
PIgmy is the solo project of Vicente Maciá, founding member of 90s Spanish psych band Carrots. Highly influenced by late 60s / early 70s UK psych, folkrock and baroque pop (think Magna Carta, Fairfield Parlour, Pete Dello, Duncan Browne, Cat Stevens, Amazing Blondel...) as well as Spanish 70s folkpop / SSW (Solera, José y Manuel, Vainica Doble...), Pigmy surprised everyone with his previous two albums, "Miniaturas" and "Hamsterdam", which are now cult items between psychfolk fans. After a long period of songwriting and recording, Pigmy returns with "Manifestación", his longawaited third album. And the result is stunning. Magical, outof time psychedelic folkpop, in the same vein of "Hamsterdam" but this time incorporating medieval / renaissance instruments (lute, recorder...), giving "Manifestación" a very unique feel. A Latin poem opens the album , followed by the medieval sounding "Almendros en Flor" with great use of flute. "Manifestación", inspired by the "Rosarium Philosophorum" alchemy book from 1550, features the two main ingredients from the new Pigmy sound: psychedelia and renaissance music. *Guerssen