One of the most transcendental Latin Soul albums in the history of the genre. Released in 1971, it underscores New York native Ralfi Pagan’s status as one of the most talented singer/songwriters in the Fania roster.
Real turning point in the history of salsa, the band brings together the biggest names of the Fania label with mythical figures like Ray Barretto, Celia Cruz, Willie Colon, etc.
El Palmas Music are back with a third instalment of rare Venezuelan sounds from the 60s and 70s, a wild trip through salsa, boogaloo, garage rock, jazz and delinquent pop.
This is the highly anticipated re-press of the much sought after and long unavailable sophomore album from South American producer Chancha Via Circuito who molds local South American rhythms into global artistry.
There are no other examples of a non-English speaking band (the group's language is the Gypsy dialect of gitane) with such a consistent winning streak in the US, where the group is the biggest-selling French act ever.
Two years after the release of Grammy Award winning, six million selling Buena Vista Social Club, many of the same musicians went back into the studio to record the debut album of Ibrahim Ferrer, one of the stars of the BVSC.
DJ El Palmas and El Dragón Criollo have chosen eight impossibly hard-to-find Venezuelan jewels, originally released between 1966 and 1978, reissued here for the first time on vinyl.
Classic album whose sole objective is the celebration of Afro-Cuban music, Vámonos Pa'l Monte is a hymn to freedom, a remedy against injustice. Eddie Palmieri, eternally rebellious, gives new strength to salsa at incorporating elements of jazz.
La Locura de Machuca is the story of one man's bizarre odyssey into Colombia's coastal music underground, and the wild, hypnotic sounds he helped bring up to the surface.
The king of the Latin-American dance field is Tito Puente. Once again the diminutive maestro demonstrates his dominance with this new recording of popular Latin-American rhythms.
HEAVY CUMBIA GUITAR ROCK FROM 1960s COLOMBIA. Los Golden Boys quickly rose to the top of the Colombian "música tropical" scene by combining popular rock and twist influences with cumbia, gaita, porro and other local styles.
Ismael was known as one of the greatest soneros in salsa and Kako was one of the most popular timbaleros during the 60s and 70s, making the combination undeniably electric.
Brazil Classics, Beleza Tropical is the first in a series compiled by Talking Heads singer David Byrne that preceded the big wave of interest in Tropicalia during the late '90s by almost a decade.
A rare salsa session, originally issued on a very small label. Fantastic sound throughout – very soulful lead vocals from Felix Santini and a fair bit of jazzy solos on flute and tenor from the legendary Mauricio Smith. Side two is especially great, with
25th Anniversary edition. Buena Vista Social Club is both the name given to this extraordinary group of musicians and the album, recorded in just seven days in 1996 in Havana's 1950s vintage EGREM studios.
Natives of the Peruvian Amazon region of Iquitos, Los Teddy's recorded for their only LP a combination of the current chart-hits and their own songs, with that raw and psychedelic sound so common in late 60s Peru.
Astor Piazzolla is considered the father of tango as we know it today, blending rhythmic vitality with orchestral textures. This LP compilation confirms that the founder of Tango Nuevo left a unique style of music that sounds just a as relevant today.
