Sabor de Cuba in the Salsa Explosion of NYC in the 1970s
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Latin Rare Grooves #3 — Strictly Vinyl. Strictly 45s.
Enjoy Episode 3 of my Salsa Classic vinyl sessions: 15 outstanding tracks with a lot of sabor de Cuba from the musical melting pot of New York’s 1970s. Although all tracks were produced in NYC, they are all deeply inspired by Afro-Cuban tradition: Cuban soul with TUMBAO and CLAVE. Some of the tracks are written by legendary Cuban composers like Arsenio Rodriguez, Luis Griñan, Rudy Calzado, Juan Formell, Israel “Cachao” Lopez, others were originally made famous by Cuban bands. All tracks have a special Cuban flavour, all have Cuban roots, all were released between 1971 and 1980. Some tracks have a more traditional charanga style, others are pure latin rock. From about 1973/1974 the NYC record label Fania started to promote the very different performances of Afro-Caribbean and Afro-Cuban music under the general title „Salsa“. The 15 singles gathered here are therefore also an homage of NYC’s salsa to the Afro-Cuban roots of the music. An homage, however, which can be danced very well.
Enjoy great voices, sparkling arrangements, outstanding soloists, driven by Afro-Caribbean percussion. All tracks released between 1971 and 1979, mainly in New York City by labels like Fania, Inca, Vaya, Coco, Mericana, Montuno, Salsoul, Tico, TR-Records and UA Latino.
First aired: ICH BIN EIN GANZ NORMALER TAG, Sunday, May 03, 2020 on ORANGE 94.0, 14:00-14-57 CET live stream
