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Joe Cuba Sextet – Bustin’ Out (1972, Venezuela pressing)

The Joe Cuba Sextet – Bustin’ Out
Vinyl rip in 24-bit/192 kHz | mp3 320 kbs & FLAC |  Web scans | Latin, Salsa, Soul
1972 Tico Records CLP-1300 || Venezuelan Pressing, Bob Ludwig laquer

Is “Put-Da-Din” the Latin American equivalent of “Je T’Aime Moi Non Plus”? Well, probably not, but maybe it could be. The big take-away here is that this is one of the best records Joe Cuba ever made, and I think it was the last to be credited to his Sextet.  The track “Can You Feel It?” also has an amazing soul vocal on it and a well thought-out dialog between the spoken narration, with romantic rememberances of “el barrio” that would make Lin-Manuel Miranda blush, immediately followed by the thoughts of somehow who “feels it, in a different way”. Brilliant stuff. And like always, no horns here, so that may help draw the reed- or brass-averse into this genre.

Joe Cuba Sextet – Bustin’ Out (1972, Venezuela pressing)

Françoise Hardy – Ma Jeunesse Fout Le Camp (1979 Japanese Compilation)

Françoise Hardy – Ma Jeunesse Fout Le Camp 
Vinyl rip in 24-bit/192 kHz | FLAC & mp3 | Web scans
1979 Epic/Sony Japan 25·3P-78

This is a Japan-only compilation (not to be confused with an earlier album with the same title)  which spans Françoise Hardy’s career up until the mid 1970s.  The sound, mastering, and pressing quality are all excellent.

My last blog post originally contained a rant, now deleted, about how I will never truly understand the music and culture of Brazil in spite of half a lifetime spent trying.  So naturally I decided to follow that with a post of an artist whose language I don’t speak at all,  although I still have a dream of learning it, someday, if there’s still time.  And I know even less about chanson as a genre.  But I know I like Françoise and, like David Bowie apparently, had I been a music fan in the 60s and 70s I probably would have had her poster on the wall and pined after her longingly.   Françoise Hardy – Ma Jeunesse Fout Le Camp (1979 Japanese Compilation)