October 20 - Show #30

Theme song: Chin chon chow – Louie Ramírez

Song-Artist-Album-Label

The time is now – Eliane Elías – Compilation Afro-Cuban Jazz Now – Blue Note

El rumbón – Chucho Valdés – Briyumba Palo Congo – Blue Note

Earth dance – Jerry González & The Fort Apache Band – Compilation Calle 54 – Blue Note

La comparsa – Bebo Valdés & Chucho Valdés – Compilation Calle 54 – Blue Note

Spanish fantasy, part IV – Chick Corea – My Spanish Heart – Polydor

Mestizo – Terra Sul – Kindness of Strangers – Motown Records Company

Jambull – Antonio Restucci – Crisol – Petroglyph Records

In the hands of love – Ottmar Liebert + Luna Negra – Borrasca – Higher Octave Music

Entre dos aguas – Paco de Lucía – Entre Dos Aguas – Polygram

Ibérico Jazz – Quinteto Montelirio – Ibérico Jazz-Las producciones de Antoliano Toldos 1967/1972 – Vampisoul

Trompeta loca – Conjunto Estif – Ibérico Jazz-Las producciones de Antoliano Toldos 1967/1972 – Vampisoul

Subway Joe – Joe Bataan with Los Fulanos – King of Latin Soul – Vampisoul

New York Soul – Ray Barretto – Compilation Can You Dig It?-Thrilling Rare Grooves from Jazz to Soul’n’Brazil to Boogaloo – Brown Sugar Records

Oh yeah – Joe Cuba – Compilation We Got Latin Soul! – Charly Records

Latin Soul Square Dance – Joe Bataan with Los Fulanos – King of Latin Soul – Vampisoul

Soul limbo – Sexteto Electrónico Moderno – Sounds from the Elegant World-Groovy Night Club Music from Uruguay 1968-71 – Vampisoul


Highlights of the show:

The show of today changed gears once and again, as always in Latin Soul, offering a great mellow mood to end with an upbeat selection. Here you may see some truly interesting albums to keep digging and exploring.



Antonio Restucci´s 2004 album "Crisol" is a musical product of what its title truly means in Spanish, crucible. The native Chilean Barcelona, Spain resident musician melts here the many influences from his career. His instrument is the guitar and mandolin. The album opens with a Latin jazz tune, 'Candela' and follows paths where a more prominent place is given to his guitar and piano sounds. It all shows a mellow mood piano jazz atmosphere, to which contemporary jazz tunes will approach by the hand of the instrumentation of two main figures in Spain fusion jazz, as Jorge Pardo´s soprano saxophone and Carlos Benavent´s bass, as in tracks 4, 'Después de la tierra' or track 9, 'Jambull'. More atmospheres to feel is the African influence of the udu in track 3 'Crisol' being a great sample of fussion with Zoltan Lantos´ violin and Mr. Restucci´s mandolin and guitar plucking. The approach to flamenco oriented rhtyms comes in tracks 5 and 6, 'Estrellas de arena' and 'Gypsy sunrise', with the collaboration of Eva Durán at the voice and palms, and Sergio Ramos at palms, and cajón percussion. Joyful tunes as the mandolin driven 'Evocación' along more introspective ones as the closing piano jazz reminiscent tune 'Esperanza' are found through the 50 minutes of the album. An album worthwhile listening to enjoy of moments of relax, slow pace, and thoughtfulness.



With "Sounds from the elegant world-groovy night club music from Uruguay 1968-71", once again the Madrid, Spain based label Vampisoul, especialized in digging musical archeology in search of vestiges and gems from the past, brings this great album which does not deserve to fall into oblivion. A compilation released in 2005 covering tunes from four of the five original albums that Sexteto Electrónico Moderno released between the years 1969 and 1971. SEM was a band original from Uruguay that became very popular -a true new sensation of sound!- in the South Cone with their blend of pop jazzy soul, bossa nova, easy listening, and nightclub music from back in the days when beat pop and soul were more at their height. You may find a great rendition of 'Soul limbo', 'I say a little prayer', 'The look of love' and 'Je t'aime, moi non plus', which were great hits in that time. Among those, compositions by SEM -remarkable 'Soul nuevo', 'My job', 'Muere pequeña bestia', 'Gin tonic', or 'Ramblin'- dealing with the parameters of the hammond organ, the vibes, or the brass section and the piano. A great album, in conclusion, to recall those days and what it has been reborn in the 1990's as lounge music. Relax, get cool, get your Martini, indulge yourself and enjoy frivolity.