Para saber cómo es la soledad) b/w El mundo entre las manos was released.

By the end of 1968, Hoy todo el hielo en la ciudad (with fuzz guitar work by Edelmiro), reach the stores.

Almendra played during the summer at the beginning of 1969 in Mar del Plata, a resort city 400 km south of Buenos Aires.

Their debut in Buenos Aires was on 24 March, at the di Tella Institute, the centre of avant-garde 60s culture in Argentina.

Gabinetes espaciales was eventually included on the compilation LP Mis conjuntos preferidos (RCA Vik 3836).

The 2-LP set included only traces of the unfinished opera but was full of songs that previewed what the members of the group (especially Emilio and Edelmiro) would do next.

The steady rock of Rutas Argentinas (a popular song on live shows), the dark Vete de mí, cuervo negro, and two more Molinari compositions: Aire de amor (prefiguring the style of Color Humano) and Mestizo complete this side.

Side C includes Parvas, Cometa azul, Florecen los nardos and Del Güercio's rhythm ballad Carmen.

Side D begins with Obertura (obviously the ill-fated opera's overture), followed by the country-folk Amor de aire and Verde llano (both written by Edelmiro).

Un pájaro te sostiene—a rock number written by Del Güercio—and Spinetta's guitar oriented En las cúpulas close the album.

Years later, on 7 and 8 December 1979, Almendra reunited to play live at the Obras Sanitarias Stadium in Buenos Aires.

On 4 December 2009 Almendra reunited for five songs —Color humano, Fermín, A estos hombres tristes, Hermano Perro and Muchacha (Ojos de papel)— as part of the Spinetta y las Bandas Eternas (Spinetta and The Eternal Bands) concert in the Vélez Sarsfield Stadium in Buenos Aires.