El Ritual is well-crafted progressive/psych bluesy rock with nice organ, some Tull like flute here and there, nice guitars, with softer and harder rock/prog/blues-rock passages, sometimes with rather hard rock vocals, and a few times Uriah Heep-kind of vocal harmonies, with lyrics in English. The fourth track, “Satanas” is a more experimental, theatrical track mixed with bluesy rock, and a long drum solo, a song about being the devil. “Muerto E Ido” has a slight Canterbury touch. This deserves to be heard by all prog/psych collectors. It sounds as interesting as many English & American examples.
El Ritual was a Mexican band born in Tijuana, Baja California, founded in the late 60s by musician and singer Frankie Barreño; who was accompanied by Gonzalo Hernández on bass; Abelardo Barceló on drums, and vocalist and keyboardist Martín Mayo.
They arrived in the Federal District in 1971, months before the celebration of the historic Avandaro festival, in which they participated without much success since they had to face serious audio and lighting problems. The ''Rock and Wheels Festival'' held in 1971 in Avándaro, Mexico, was like a kind of Mexican Woodstock, a historic rock concert held on September 11 and 12, 1971, near the Avándaro Golf Club, in the State of Mexico, in Mexico. The arts festival celebrated life, peace, love, ecology, the arts and experimental drugs and has been compared to the Woodstock Festival for its psychedelic music, countercultural art, overt drug use, exercise of free love and Due to the enormous attendance of people who participated in it, it is said that between the two days that the festival lasted, the audience was between 100,000 and 500,000 attendees.
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