Ray Barretto “The Message”Released 1972, Fania RecordsRelease Date Jul 17, 2007Studio/Live StudioMono/Stereo StereoProducer Ray BarrettoEngineer Irv GreenbaumRecording Time 35 minutesPersonnel Ray Barretto – congasOrestes Vilato – timbalesAndy Gonzalez – bass Roberto Rodriguez – trumpetJohnny “Dandy” Rodriguez – bongosRene LopezJoseph “Papy” RomanLouis Cruz – piano From Dusty GrooveOne of Ray Barretto’s hardest-hitting salsa albums of the…
Manu Dibango – Africadelic (1975) 320 kbs
Manu Dibango Released 1973 This pressing 2006, Hi Fly Reocrds 1 The Panther 2:29 2 Soul Fiesta 2:08 3 Africadelic 2:16 4 African Battle 3:00 5 Black Beauty 2:50 6 African Carnaval 3:16 7 Moving Waves 4:03 8 Afro-Soul 2:44 9 Oriental Sunset 1:47 10 Monkey Beat 2:42 11 Wa-Wa 3:03 12 Percussion Storm 1:54…
The Return of Flabbergasted Freeform
The original form of this blog, at another address, was just a gratuitous forum to host streamable and downloadable files from my freeform radioshow — Flabbergasted Freeform. I took that site down, and also gave up my show in May because of other things I had going on. I occasionally fill in for other people,…
Alegre All-Stars – Best of The Alegre All-Stars (2005)
Alegre All-Stars – The Best of..(2005) 320kbs Released pm Vampi-Soul, 2005 This set of music really cooks. VampiSoul is a cool label that puts out great music, but isn’t exactly known for thorough packaging or notes. The blurb below the tracklist here is literally all we get. The lineup listed on the inside of…
Milton Nascimento – Milton (1970) 320 kbs
Milton Nascimento“MILTON”Released in 1970 on EMI/OdeonRemastered at Abby Road in 1994 Milton Nascimento tends to get a bad rap these days among music connoisseurs. Much of that is his own doing: since he became an international jazz-fusion star in the late 1970s, his records just became worse and worse. Another reason why “jazz-fusion” is often…
Eddie Kendricks – Going Up In Smoke (1976) 320kbs
This goes out to Agnes in Atlanta on her BIRTHDAY! Happy birthday, yo!!! Agnes is one of my oldest friends (by which I mean a friend I’ve held on to for years, not as in old age) We haven’t actually seen each other in years but hopefully that will change soon. I can’t get enough…