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Salsa Selecta: A Taste of Nuyorican Latin Flavours

Salsa Selecta: A Taste of Nuyorican Latin Flavours
Various Artists

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Angus says... "OLD SKOOL ALERT! Do not buy this if you like your Salsa soft! The cover of this album could not be more misleading - it is full of heavy sounding 60s & 70s Salsa. If you like your Salsa a bit raw but full of energy and passion then this one is for you..."

Track Listing

  1. Magdalena - Ernie Agosto / Orquesta la Conspiracion
  2. La mujer latina - Latin Fever
  3. New York City - Junior Gonzalez
  4. Decencia - Luigi Texidor
  5. Cantandole al amor - Mongo Santamaria & Justo Betancourt
  6. Los rumberos - Markolino Dimond & Frankie Dante
  7. Sabor los rumberos nuevos - Angel Canales & Sabor
  8. Nueva york - Fuego 77
  9. Que chevere - Orlando Marin & his Orchestra
  10. Traigo alegria - Impacto Crea
  11. Papa boco - Latin Tempo
  12. Arrepentios pecadores - Willie Rosario
  13. El negro chombo - Tommy Olivencia
  14. Guarambembere - Bobby Valentin
  15. Soy carabali - Guarare
  16. Mi isla Puerto Rico - Ray Rodriguez

Product Details

  • Amazon Sales Rank: #205278 in Music
  • Released on: 2001-08-20
  • Number of discs: 1

Editorial Reviews

Amazon.co.uk Review
At first, with its pouting-model cover-shots and irritating title, Salsa Selecta comes over as a mainstream package for the novice. Delve deeper into the sleeve notes, and it's revealed as a rather specialist investigation of New York's salsa underground. Apart from a couple of 1960s remnants and a stray early-1980s pair, the vast majority of these tunes hail from the 1970s, a sequence of shortish blasts that have the effect of stoking up a cumulative excitement, their running time approaching the single-disc limit. Mongo Santamaria and Bobby Valentin aside, these names are rarely bandied about. Early highlights are provided by Ernie Agosto's "Magdalena" (razoring horn manoeuvres punctuating the passionate vocals of Miguel Quintana) and the all-female Latin Fever (opening "La Mujer Latina" with rootsy Cuban drumming, shunting into slick urban moves, complete with acid electric guitar and a frothy, English-sung mid-section). Then there's Markolino Dimond's dynamically hammered piano solo on "Los Rumberos" and the agile vocal stylings of Angel Canales during his "Sabor Los Rumberos Nuevos", chock full of rolling syllables... hisses and half-spoken asides. --Martin Longley