So when I first picked this up in Venezuela I thought, here it is, the most lysergic acid drenched psychedelic rock from Venezuela you will ever hear. It turned out slightly different, but not for the worse. Vimazoluleka was a theatre play written by Venezuelan director Levy Rossell. They were performing it in 1966 in Caracas in a tunnel near to the Galería de Arte Nacional and at the time it was finished Rosell was only sixteen (!) years old.
Vimazoluleka will only appeal to you if you can understand Spanish, if not there is not much to find for you here. Still the theatre play is interesting and depicts a so called anthropology of Caracas in the sixties. It looks at the different layers of society and how these different groups get a long with each other. The whole is placed in a totally absurd framework with characters that are absolutely insane. There are recordings of acting and quite a few songs on the record.
This is a very rare example of an highly unconventional hippie-esque Latin American play, again preceding Hair by years, depicting a certain moment of social struggle in Caracas. It's a play that displays a lot of social critique from a time in which psychedelia, freedom-thinking and equality was starting to manifest itself in societies of the world. Funny thing is that the whole critical dimension of the play couldn't be much more relevant now. That's why some years ago they also recreated this play in a somewhat urban format for the contemporary time which to my opinion kind of sucked.
How much of these records survived? No idea.
Más sobre la historía de Vimazoluleka aquí y aquí.
Caracas para locos.
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