Roots of Salsa. Vol. 1, by VVAA

Roots of Salsa. Vol. 1

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1.	Cheo Marquetti y su Conjunto (1957) - Sonero 02:54	info	buy track
2.	Vicentico Valdés con La Sonora Matancera (1953) - Yo no soy guapo 03:05	info	buy track
3.	Mariano Mercerón y Sus Muchachos Pimienta (1944) - No creo en brujería 03:05	info	buy track
4.	Senén Suárez y Su Conjunto Del Tropicana Night Club (1953) - Yambeque 02:41	info	buy track
5.	Orquesta Aragón (1957) - Ven Morena 02:55	info	buy track
6.	René Álvarez y Su Conjunto Los Astros (1950) - Jóvenes del muelle 02:53	info	buy track
7.	Arsenio Rodríguez y Su Conjunto (1959-60) - Hachero pa' un palo 02:31	info	buy track
8.	Joseíto Fernández con Orquesta Aragón (1957) - Así son Boncó 02:43	info	buy track
9.	Conjunto Flores Valdés (1955) - Azúcar Mami 02:35	info	buy track
10.	Conjunto Casino (1952) - Magdalena 03:09	info	buy track
11.	Randy Carlos And His Orchestra (1958) - Tin Marín 02:43	info	buy track
12.	Alfonsin Quintana y Su Conjunto Jovenes Del Cayo (1951-1953) - Asere Crucoro 02:56	info	buy track
13.	Trío Matamoros (1950) - Guajira ven a gozar 02:37	info	buy track
14.	Chapuseaux y Damirón. (1950-1954) - Gulliver 03:09	info	buy track

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Pablo Yglesias -aka DJ Bongohead- compiles to Grosso Recordings an amazing serie with classics tunes from Caribbean music that became great successes of "Salsa".

“This series is born of my investigations into the music I love, digging deep into the Afro-Antillean songbook from the golden period of Latin music to unearth older –sometimes definitive or at the very least early hit renditions – of tunes that would later be covered by the next succeeding waves of salseros. That is not to say these are the first recorded versions (though some are); indeed, there is a whole other even earlier epoch of recordings, from the 1920s and ‘30s, which also served as fodder for future generations of Latin musicians.”
“The mission with this series is to choose recordings from the 1940s and 50s that not only were influential in the 1970s but also have good to excellent recording fidelity and could be an aid not only in advancing people’s understanding of the origins of salsa but also serve as a DJ tool to show that there was an earlier version of a hit that the casual salsa fan may not know about. These treasures, some now forgotten and obscure, others still played in some melómano (salsa fan) circles, are representative of the earlier era of compositions and performances that would serve to inspire and shape the movement that would become a transnational symbol of Latinidad from the 1960s through the 1980s, before the next generation created their own vernacular styles for dancing and expressing their identity anew.”

Pablo E. Yglesias, aka DJBongohead

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released October 10, 2017

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