The Soul Jazz Orchestra Release Rising Sun

Posted on 11. Mar, 2010 by mundovibe in ARCHIVE

Since their creation in 2002 in Ottawa, Canada, The Souljazz Orchestra have become one of the most potent bands in their field. Drawing on the rough, raw grooves of the ‘60s and ‘70s and effortlessly fusing soul, jazz, Afro and latin rhythms within their music, they have moved forward the blueprint of Fela, Fania and the funk in entirely new ways, whilst keeping the vital analogue grit intact. As a live unit, the Orchestra have become an in-demand fixture at venues and festivals worldwide.

Having turned heads with two fine albums on Toronto label Do Right!, ‘Freedom No Go Die’ (2006, featuring their breakthrough single ‘Mista President’) and ‘Manifesto’ (2008), Strut are proud to announce the band’s hotly anticipated third album, ‘Rising Sun’. Drawing on a wider canvas of styles than ever before, touching on spiritual jazz, deep African rhythms and Ethiopian modes, the Orchestra take their sound to new heights with stunning musicianship and virtuoso arrangements throughout. Long-time fan Gilles Peterson (BBC Radio One) has already acclaimed this album to be their best yet.

The tracks themselves flow as a sinuous whole. The reflective intro overture, Awakening, originally came to composer Pierre Chrétien in a dream; the hard Afrobeat of Agbara whips up a heavyweight groove, driven by prepared marimbas rather than traditional electric guitar lines; Negus Negast touches on dark Ethio-jazz, inspired by Strut label-mate Mulatu Astatke; Lotus Flower is a spiritual soul-jazz piece featuring the muted trumpet stylings of guest Nicholas Dyson (musician with Gladys Knight & The Pips, The Temptations and The Coasters); Mamaya moves us into heavy 12/8 Afro-jazz territory, based around traditional Guinean rhythms; the more laid back 12/8 Afro-jazz of Serenity features the flute and clarinet work of multi-instrumentalist Zakari Frantz; Consecration explores modal territory, a track composed during the very early days of the group; and the album closes with Rejoice, a storming cover in two parts of the Pharoah Sanders’ 1981 classic.

The Souljazz Orchestra will be touring throughout 2010, starting with North American dates in March, followed by European dates in April.

Lady Alma Adds Her Voice to Silhouette Brown

Posted on 24. Feb, 2010 by mundovibe in ARCHIVE, FEATURED, Features

A Mundovibe exclusive interview with Silhouette Brown vocalist Lady Alma

Listen to the full interview here. Full transcript below:

After half a decade, Silhouette Brown – the original production and songwriting team of vocalist Bembe Segue, Kaidi Tatham (Agent K / Bugz In The Attic) and Dego (2000black / 4hero / dkd) – return with their aptly titled sophomore album, two. Silhouette Brown’s second LP two features the unmistakable vocal sounds of Philadelphia’s Lady Alma who has appeared on countless club classics from Sylk130’s “When the Funk Hits The Fan” to Soul Dahmma’s “Happy” and 4hero’s “Hold it Down”. Soaring with a distinctive soulful voice from start to finish, showing all her versatility and warm spirit, Lady Alma delivers two into a relaxed head-nod-soul experience.

Alma’s distinctive soulful voice brings a vivacious energy to the various sounds introduced in the album.  With two, Silhouette Brown guides us toward a new dimension of modern soul music with a distinctively London-esque flair. It conveys a touch of melancholy in tone through contemplative yet hopeful lyrics and just enough groove for those looking for that “je ne sais quoi” in their regular dosage of Jazz and Nu soul.

“Get With It” is a hip-hop song featuring Brand Nubian’s Sadat X, which talks about uniting and progressing. “Leave A Note” talks about suicide, while “Hear Them Often Say” is about having faith. Another instant hit is the collaboration with M.D Akwasi on “Strawberries in Vinegar,” which is a guaranteed boogie anthem. Silhouette Brown’s extremely skillful production team pushes a warm, sumptuous melody, which delivers groove in a way only they know how. This group of extra-ordinary artists created two, which is the musical product of their skills and talents.

Mundovibe Editor John C. Tripp spoke with Lady Alma from her Philly base just before the release of “two”.

Mundovibe: It’s an honor to speak to you, I give you big respect. I’ve been a fan of y0ur contributions going way back to, of course, King Britt and I’m a big fan of the EP you did with Mark de Clive-Lowe and your work with 4 Hero. Big respect.

Lady Alma: Thank you very much.

MV: So, let’s go right into this new Silhouette Brown and my first question is, how you became the vocalist on this recording.

LA: Well, I’m friends with all three of the creators of Silhouette Brown, which is  “Dego” McFarlane, Kaidi Tatham and Bembe Segue and I knew about the first Silhouette Brown. I’m a fan of those three cats so I was already in on it, but I did not know that I was going to be a part of Silhouette Brown until the later part of 2008 when Dego started talking about it. We stated recording in February of 2009 and now here we go.

MV: Yeah, well it’s exciting because you’ve got a history with those guys and, of course, ‘Hold It Down’ was such a phenomenal track so this is kind of a bearing the full fruit of that collaboration I would say.

LA: Yeah, I think so. I’ve had the opportunity of performing with Kaidi and Bembe on stage and working with Dego in the studio. So, for me it was an honor for it to happen. That they even considered me as pulling it off: it’s five years in the making so I’m very honored to be the one on the next installment.

MV: So, how do you describe Silhouette Brown?

LA: Definitely different from the first installment. Dego is now living here in the States, so it’s a little more States friendly. He and Kaidi are very complex with their drum patterns and what they lay down and I think him being here kind of Americanized the sound of Silhouette Brown to make it more American friendly. More boombap beats and more just laid-back, grown folk &B tracks with some heavy contemporary gospel influence chords played by both Dego and Kaidi. So, it’s definitely different from the first installment.

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MV Music News

Posted on 18. Feb, 2010 by mundovibe in ARCHIVE

Soil & Pimp Sessions, Krishna Das

ZUCO 103 – RETOUCHED!

On Retouched!, Brazilian Electro pioneers Zuco 103’s latest album, After the Carnaval
gets the deluxe remix treatment from a global gang of producers. Among the many musical flavors featured on this collection, chemicalbeats collective Nobody Beats The Drum surprises with a banging breakbeat remix, Spanish DJ duo Wagon Cookin’ mix it up house style and Kraak & Smaak bring the disco goodness . Also on the menu are an electro-bossa mix from Bossacucanova, tribal disco from San Proper and two previously unreleased tracks from Zuco 103 themselves.

Be sure to download the Kraak & Smaak remix of “Back Home” Download Here

Japanese punk-jazz renegades SOIL& PIMP SESSIONS bust back in 2010 with their sixth studio album on Gilles Peterson’s Brownswood Recordings imprint. The sextet’s roof-raising, festival-conquering live show has earned them new fans at every stop on their annual trailblazing European tours. The cunningly titled ‘6’ is – yep, you guessed it – the sixth album by the sextet and alongside monstrous good time grooves like ‘Pop Korn’ and ‘Papa’s Got A Brand New Pigbag’, the band incorporate two vocal-featured tracks for the first time. ‘MY FOOLISH HEART’ features acclaimed Japanese alternative female singer Ringo Sheena on vocals whilst a cover of the club classic ‘Stolen Moments’ features Top UK jazzer Jamie Cullum. Taking things into the electronic arena, renowned Japanese turntablist, DJ KENTARO contributes the opening sound collage too. ‘6’ finds SOIL & “PIMP” SESSIONS in blazing hot form.

Krishna Das to Release “Heart As Wide As The World” — His First Studio Album in Ten Years

Called the “Chant Master of American Yoga” by the New York Times, Krishna Das will release Heart As Wide As The World, his first studio album in ten years, March 2010. The album is a collaboration with David Nichtern (“Midnight at the Oasis”) who produced and played guitar. Jerry Marotta (Hall & Oates, Peter Gabriel) on drums, percussion. As well as, world musicians Steve Gorn on bansuri flute and Benjy Wertheimer on esraj, amongst an array of other instruments.

Eprom on Surefire — Free track

Brand new label Surefire Productions launches with a debut from US based Eprom with a Falty DL remix on the flip. Download a free track from Eprom (‘Never’) HERE

Si*Se Gold EP To Be Released March 9th

On the upcoming Si*Sé Gold EP, singer/DJ Carol C’s voice evokes a sophisticated sensuality, singing in English and Spanish over producer Cliff Cristofaro’s post-trip-hop grooves. The band also includes drummer Ryan Farley, bassist Morgan Phillips, percussionist Neil Ochoa and violinist Nicole Arena. For the single “This Love,” Carol turned to Cristofaro for a “Motown-ish track.” He was ready for the request, pulling out a sweetly spaced rhythm with plenty of room for Carol’s dream-like vocals to fly over: her heartfelt convictions, one which has caused innumerable fans to connect to her with, is in full force here. “I was talking to many different people around the same time,” she says, “and they all seemed to be in search of the perfect love. This song came out of those conversations.” The producer Cliff, also known as The Crystal Pharoah, provides a divine slice of disco cut with trilling string trimmings.

Ilhan Ersahin’s Istanbul Sessions with Erik Truffaz The four-piece band featured on Istanbul Sessions started off as a hand-picked group for a one time show Ilhan Ersahin, the noted saxophonist/composer did in Istanbul three years ago. “We didn’t play a “Turkish” sound, but a more open sound true to who we are, but of course the spirit of Istanbul is in there when we play,” says Ersahin. The group is regularly joined by European jazz star, French trumpeter Erik Truffaz, who performs on nearly all tracks on the this great fresh jazz record.

Featured Mixes at Mixcloud

Posted on 15. Feb, 2010 by mundovibe in ARCHIVE

Bullion Mix for Benji B (BBC 1Xtra)

Long a fan of 70s disco and afro funk, Bullion has garnered worldwide recognition with twisting samples into layers of melodic clarity paired with brash percussion. Pure gold.

Afro Funk / Beats / Soul

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Indian Novelist And Musician Amit Chaudhuri Releases ‘This Is Not Fusion’

Posted on 14. Feb, 2010 by mundovibe in ARCHIVE

Following a series of sold-out live performances in 2009 that culminated at the London Jazz Festival, Amit Chaudhuri releases his first album ‘This Is Not Fusion’ on the Babel Label on February 22nd 2010.

Amit Chaudhuri is a trained and critically acclaimed singer in the North Indian classical tradition; he has received high praise for his singing from various newspapers and journals, including the Times of India, the Hindustan Times, Ananda Bazar Patrika and India Today. He learned singing from his mother, the well-known exponent of Tagore songs and devotionals, Bijoya Chaudhuri, and, extensively, from the late Pandit Govind Prasad Jaipurwale of the Kunwar Shyam gharana. He was then guided in Hindustani music by Pandit A. Kanan.

‘This Is Not Fusion’ brings together the major threads of twentieth-century western popular music: blues, jazz, rock, techno and disco with Indian classical music in an original and eclectic way that explores the many similarities between the genres to produce a wholly uncontrived, natural musical language. The music on ‘This Is Not Fusion’ emerges from Chaudhuri’s multiple lineages: as a trained and recorded singer in the Indian classical tradition; his experience as a guitarist and singer in the American singer/songwriter mould; and as an internationally acclaimed, award-winning novelist and critic.

Amit Chaudhuri writes: ‘At the age of sixteen when my immersion in Indian vocal music grew more intense there came a gradual but seemingly irrevocable rejection of the western music I had grown up with and it would take me seventeen years to start listening again to my old record collection. When I did I began to hear doubly; to hear the raga in the blues and the blues in the raga. What brought the two together was the pentatonic scale and the bent notes used in both traditions, which now struck my ears anew. It was in this receptive mood that I heard one morning as I was practising raga Todi, the riff to Clapton’s ‘Layla’ in a handful of notes I was singing. Soon after, I thought I heard, in a hotel lobby, a santoor playing Auld Lang Syne, although it was actually a phrase from raga Bhupali. Those moments of ‘mishearing’ also contained within them both my past and moments in the history of Bombay converging with the present. From these convergences began the musical project I have been working on and travelling with for the last four years which has resulted in this album.’

myspace.com/amitchaudhuri

Sample the music:

The ‘Layla’ Riff to Todi – click here for audio clip

Dotara – click here for audio clip

Summertime – click here for audio clip

Shree in Two Keys – click here for audio clip

Moral Education – click here for audio clip

Freewheeling Jog – click here for audio clip
Trucker – click here for audio clip

All India Radio – click here for audio clip

Berlin –click here for audio clip

Motz – click here for audio clip

Free Music

Posted on 12. Feb, 2010 by mundovibe in ARCHIVE

Free MP3s from Rahel, Silhouette Brown,Omar Sosa, Mark Weinstein, Mark Farina, John Brown’s Body, Dub Gabriel

Mark de Clive-Lowe presents Rahel — HOPE

RAHEL has collaborated with Dudley Perkins, Georgia Anne Muldrow and Eric Lau. One of the UK’s next generation of soul artists, here’s the result of hitting studio with MdCL for some piano-laden head-nod. Download here

Silhouette Brown — Constant Questions

After half a decade, Silhouette Brown – the original production and songwriting team of broken beat/nu jazz vocalist Bembe Segue, Kaidi Tatham (Agent K / Bugz In The Attic) and Dego (2000black / 4hero / dkd) – return with their aptly titled sophomore album, two. This time they are joined by Philadelphia’s Lady Alma (of 4hero’s “Hold It Down” fame) and delve into an array of subject matters. (Mundovibe will post its in-depth interview with Lady Alma soon). Download here.

Omar Sosa, Mark Weinstein
“Forest Journey” (mp3)
from “Tales From The Earth”
(Otá Records)

More On This Album

Mark Farina
“That’s How” (mp3)
from “Geograffiti EP”
(Great Lakes Audio)

Buy at iTunes Music Store
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John Brown’s Body
“The Gold (Dubmatix Runnin’ Remix)” (mp3)
from “Re-Amplify”
(Easy Star Records)

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More On This Album

John Brown’s Body
“Give Yourself Over (GoldieLocks Vs. Synth Girl Remix)” (mp3)
from “Re-Amplify”
(Easy Star Records)

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John Brown’s Body
“Conquering Heart Dub (Blue King Brown’s Be At Peace Remix)” (mp3)
from “Re-Amplify”
(Easy Star Records)

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Dub Gabriel feat. U Roy — Luv n’ Liv ( Ming vs. Subatomic Sound System Remix)
Destroy All Concepts

Brooklyn’s Subatomic Sound System teams up with Ming, of Ming + FS to remix the Dub Gabriel track “Luv n’ Liv” featuring U Roy on vocals and David J on bass.
DOWNLOAD HERE

Review: The Spy From Cairo “Secretly Famous”

Posted on 09. Feb, 2010 by mundovibe in ARCHIVE

The Spy From Cairo

Middle Eastern music often gets the short shrift when it combined with contemporary music, often appearing as a sample — a moaning wail, the strumming of an oud or darbouka – laid over some formulaic beats (often filed under “new age”). The Spy From Cairo has dispersed of this malignment on “Secretly Famous”, creating a music that truly integrates traditional Arabic music with dub and rhythmic production. Purists might not approve but this is some seriously dope interpretation of traditional Middle Eastern music. Think Thievery Corporation with Arab influence and you’ve got an idea of what the Spy From Cairo has accomplished on these 13 tracks, representing the full breadth of sounds from the region. For the uninitiated, The Spy From Cairo is Moreno Visini, a low profile but extremely accomplished musician, producer and remixer who has been a major contributor to New York City’s underground globalist scene. The man is to Arabic music what Bob Baer is to spying, you might not know him but he’s left his imprint on dozens of recordings including DJ Sabo, Organic Grooves, Turntables on the Hudson as well as the Buddha Bar compilations.

With its 13 songs, there’s a lot of turf to cover on “Secretly Famous” and The Spy From Cairo runs the full breadth of Arabic sounds, opening with a rush of nay and mizmar flutes and Darbouka rhythms on ‘Nayphony’, based on traditional wedding music from Jordan. ‘Kurdish Delight’ is a bass- and dub-driven twist on traditional Kurdish mountain music with clarinet, darbouka and frame drum. After these two instrumental songs we’re seduced by several songs featuring guest vocalist Ghalia Benali who grew up in an artistic family in the south of Tunisia. Benali is a well regarded Arabic singer and leaves her scintillating and exotic mark on “Secretly Famous”. One such song is  ‘Blood and Honey’, a varied and transfixing dedication to the Balkans, a region filled with flowers and fertile land as well as a long history of wars.

A standout track on “Secretly Famous” is ‘Kembe”, an infectious blending of vocals by Alladin,  Oud ( arabic guitar ), darbouka and a synthesized Mizmar along with TSFC’s trade mark beat and bass line. Things get funky on ‘Jennaty’ with its disco-ish guitar riffing and beats and Benali’s voice, which perfectly blends with the music. Both are great songs for heating up the dancefloor. Continuing past the half-way mark of “Secretly Famous” is ‘Oud Funk’, a blend of  a “Rai” type of melody and a twisted “afrofunk’ beat.  It starts with a peaceful Oud taksim ( Oud improvisation ) and it kicks in with Darbouka, beat and string arrangements. As one can detect by now, there is some serious instrumentation and arrangement happening on “Secretly Famous”. This is not some patched together project, each song is a careful amalgamation of traditional and modern and you’d be hard pressed to detect the separation between the two.

Continuing on the trans-Arabic journey is the deep and hypnotic ‘Sufi Disco’ with a brooding Nay riff and some wicked Oud riffs backed by some tripped out Moog sounds and a house groove. ‘Reggada’ is a bhangra-fied twist on this traditional style of Moroccon music with male vocals and a seriously heavy dub vibe that kicks in about half way into the song. Love the part where the vocals do a sort of tongue roll. ‘Ala Shan’ is a dubified remix of a very famous song by the (late) one and only Farid Al Atrache, the Egyptian “Father of the Oud”. The final track blends Benali’s soaring vocals with sitar and tabla, a calming end to a Nat Geo soundclash of old meeting new. The Spy from Cairo has masterfully infiltrated the inner sanctum of middle eastern sounds on “Secretly Famous”, seducing an unsuspecting audience with his adroit musicianship and production methods. And in the process, he’s blown his cover: the Spy From Cairo is no longer a best kept secret.  - J.C. Tripp

THE SPY FROM CAIRO “SECRETLY FAMOUS”

Times Ain’t So Good Anymore for Carlos Bertonatti

Posted on 08. Feb, 2010 by mundovibe in ARCHIVE

Singer Carlos Bertonatti in prison after killing bicyclist in drunken hit and run accident. Let’s hope he rots there.

Carlos Bertonatti is a real lady’s man, a Miami player and now a killer.
We at Mundovibe think that people who kill bicyclists deserve maximum penalties.
Especially when they’re drunk and drive off from the scene with the bike under their car.
Let’s make sure Carlos Bertonatti doesn’t get off easy for killing an innocent man. And to the legions of swooning “fans” of Mr. Bertonatti, now’s the time to remove yourself as his Myspace friend.

More info here.

Christophe Le Canne Memorial Ride from rydel high on Vimeo.

Bollywood Gets Retooled in “My Name is Khan”

Posted on 08. Feb, 2010 by mundovibe in ARCHIVE, FEATURED, News

The Rhythm of the Sufi Saints: “My Name is Khan” Transcends Bollywood’s Musical Borders

A film drama that retools the mindset of Bollywood needs music that gleams like a fine-edged sword. The soundtrack of “My Name is Khan”—the genre-busting Bollywood drama phenomenon that follows an idiosyncratic hero, an Indian Muslim husband and father, on a transcontinental journey through the fog of America, post-9/11—brings the Mumbai sound back to basics. Veteran director Karan Johar and his trusted team of transworld Indian composers Shankar-Ehsaan-Loy (SEL) have made this film as much a musical as a cinematic statement.

Six simple songs, custom-made for the movie, recast the role of the Bollywood movie and set aside the typical “item songs,” the fantastic dance numbers that sustain the Indian film industry. Instead, Johar wanted to create a musical counterpoint to the psychosocial drama unfolding on screen. In the film, Rizvan Khan, a Muslim man from India, moves to San Francisco and lives with his brother and sister-in-law. Rizvan, who has Aspergers, falls in love with Mandira. Despite protests from his family, they get married and start a small business together. They are happy until September 11, 2001 when attitudes toward Muslims undergo a sea-change. When tragedy strikes, Mandira is devastated and they split. Rizvan is confused and very upset that the love of his life has left him. To win her back, he embarks on a touching and inspiring journey across America.

Naturally, for the film’s soundtrack Johar turned to SEL, a motley trio from diverse backgrounds who have produced the music for several of his projects. After reading through the script, they started from scratch with a studio jam session. Johar adopted a set of sounds, which appear throughout the film as brushstrokes of watercolor harmony, from the motley array of sonic hybrids that are SEL’s calling card: Loy Mendonsa, a jazz pianist, has been working with Ehsaan Noorani, a rock-and-blues buff, and Shankar Mahadevan, one of India’s top singers and acclaimed collaborator with everyone from Jan Garbarek to Swans, for fourteen peaceful and productive years. Over 250 songs into their collective career, they are masters of blending unexpected genres and ancient traditions.

This blend formed the perfect musical platform for Johar’s tale of cross-cultural communication and passionate longing. In the film, established actor Shah Rukh Khan plays Rizvan Khan, a gentle Islamic man who sees the world in black and white, yet finds himself caught in the confused grey zones of the post-9/11 world. Khan the protagonist sets off on an epic journey to clear his name—and to transform the world’s understanding of his faith and fate.

Any Bollywood film starring the famously handsome Khan, here reunited with his erstwhile sultry screen partner Kajol, has to have a love story, but the romance in “My Name is Khan” is on hold: Khan and his wife are separated, and he begins his journey across America. His theme, a centerpiece of the soundtrack, is the rhythm of the country-western Sufi saints, of the restless whirling cowboy who wandered out of Mumbai with nothing but a prayer for a thread of sky-blue clarity. The music follows Khan as he plucks that thread and follows it along his striking trajectory.

Even before filming began, the soundtrack was in the spinning wheel, bound up in the very cloth of the film. “Every film has a sound that is ingrained in its genes,” opines Karan Johar, the director. “Even when I’m shooting a sequence, I always have background music playing in my head.” Here, he needed to communicate Khan’s journey through disorder to a simple point beyond the horizon along the absolute clarity of a line.

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Bang Bang! The Return of Joe Cuba

Posted on 04. Feb, 2010 by mundovibe in ARCHIVE

Joe Cuba: A Man and His Music – El Alcalde Del Barrio is out February 23

Free Joe Cuba MP3 “Bang Bang” (at end of article)

Fania Records is proud to announce the release of a deluxe 2-disc, 34-track box set of the father of Latin Boogaloo, Joe Cuba. This release is schedule for February 23, 2010 and commemorates one year after the passing of this legend. Joe Cuba: A Man and His Music – El Alcalde Del Barrio is a truly exceptional two-disc compilation with an accurate assemblage of his recordings never previously compiled in album form. These tracks have been digitally remastered from the original master tapes. Featuring his international hits “Bang Bang” and “El Pito (I’ll Never Go Back to Georgia),” and many other diverse numbers that spanned his illustrious career, carefully selected and researched by Latin music veteran and prominent producer Bobby Marín.

Joe Cuba (Gilberto Navarro) was born on April 22, 1931, in Spanish Harlem, New York City, where his Puerto Rican parents moved in the late ‘20’s. Captivated by the conga playing of Sabu Martínez, Gilbert took the opportunity to learn the instrument while recovering from a broken leg suffered playing stickball. Gilbert jammed in the street until given the chance to replace Sabu for a few months as part of a local band, La Alfarona, X in 1950. Shortly after, he joined Spanish Harlem’s Joe Panama Quintet, where Jimmy Sabater was a timbales player. After recruiting vibraphonist Tommy Berrios, Gilbert and the band had a falling out with Panama and formed the Cha Cha Boys with Gilbert Calderon as the bandleader. Much to his surprise, Gilbert would soon be billed as “Joe Cuba” by his promoter, Catalino Rolón, and the name would stick.

Joe Cuba was instrumental in the development of boogaloo and had the biggest hit of the 60s with “Bang Bang,” which achieved unprecedented success for Latin music in the US in 1966 when it sold over one million copies. Joe’s pivotal role in the boogaloo style had him nicknamed the “Father of Latin Boogaloo,” and his leadership in the community had coined rightfully so, “the mayor of the barrio” (El Alcalde Del Barrio).

Joe Cuba led an extraordinary life and left behind a legacy of wonderful music for us to take pleasure in, as you will discover upon listening to this album. His presence will be eternally missed, but his spirit remains with those fortunate to have known him.

The set joins The Man and His Music series that has featured such artists as Tito Rodríguez, Celia Cruz, Hector Lavoe, Willie Colón, and Rubén Blades, all on the Fania label, whose catalog Código Music recently acquired. Joe Cuba: The Man and His Music is the second release in this series from Código Music.

FREE JOE CUBA MP3 “Bang Bang” (right click to download)

Joe Cuba Release Party!

Release party event at the Mint (Los Angeles) on Friday, February, 12th.. Chico Mann and Boogaloo Assassins will perform cover of Joe Cuba. Other parties will take place the night before, February 11th, at the Elbo Room in San Francisco and February, 24 in New York (More details very soon).