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After a brief period during which they recorded only a couple of 7-inch singles for the Orfeon label that had a very limited distribution, Mexican rockers Antorcha fully embraced a DIY approach to managing their own career. They had evolved into a heavy psychedelic rock group, with no metaphors and no compromises. Anarchists in a country that could barely utter the word without trembling.
It was the final years of the 1960s. Their influences came from Iron Butterfly, Black Sabbath, Blue Cheer, Vanilla Fudge, and others. At times they also sounded like MC5, the Detroit band they already knew through their records and with whom they shared an anarchist and anti-establishment spirit. Through their original music, they challenged a scene crowded with cover bands. They recorded five self-produced EPs, sold exclusively at their live performances, passed from hand to hand as if each record were a clandestine act. While MC5 stirred the streets of Detroit alongside the White Panthers, Antorcha was doing much the same in a Mexico that preferred to look the other way
Tracklist
Disc: 1
1 Nada
2 Cancion No. 1
3 En El Jardin Del Eden
4 Grass
5 Going Down
6 La Tierra
7 Crisalida
Disc: 2
1 Sodomaquina
2 Inconclusa
3 Mira
4 Bracero
5 Intento
6 Quiero Vivir