ME GUSTA

Musica del Alma is back, and I am stoked to no end. Until a week of so ago, there had been no movement over there. A lesser blog would have been left for dead. But it had become a favorite of mine, so I kept checking back. It's not like there wasn't enough there to dig through for the last year and a half. It's chocked full of odd obscure Latin music, of all types; traditional, soul, funk, and rock, and just plain weird. The newest post is a mix, but there's some more action at the accompanying site, Discos Alma. Three mixes (so far) and a link to records for sale on ebay, all at set prices (that seem relatively fair) and most with long sound clips (wink wink nudge nudge).

Here's a few from Musica del Alma. They've all been posted before, but it'll give you an idea of what goes on over there.

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Listen:
Porfi Jimenez y su Orquesta - Coro mp3 at Musica del Alma
Tony Hernandez and the Latin Liners - Jo Tex mp3 at Musica del Alma
Phirpo y sus Caribes - Comencemos mp3 at Musica del Alma  Fela cover
Gerald Wilson - Viva Tirado mp3 at Musica del Alma Original version of El Chicano hit
Los Hermanos Cortez - La Locuro de los Hippies (The Madness of Hippies) mp3 at Musica de Alma
Visit:
Discos Alma main page
Musica del Alma - The blog
Discos Alma - The Mixes
Discos Alma - Records for sale

ALL SCHOOLS JAM

Soul Sides just posted another cover of Fela Kuti's "Let's Start," so, of course, I had my cue to gather up a bunch of Afrobeat type stuff that's been waiting in the wings, and repost some that you may have missed.  I love this stuff.  It flat out jams.  I don't know what it is, but you either dig it or you don't, depending on what your appetite is for non-rock hot shit jams.
 

Visit the blogs that posted these, particularly American Athlete. They stopped posting there in November, so their links may be expired if you wait.  There's a lot of great stuff.  Don't veg.

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Listen: 

Phirpo y sus Caribes - Comencemos mp3 at Musica del Alma  Cover of Fela's "Let's Start" 

Jungle Fire: Comencemos mp3 at Soul Sides  Cover of Fela's "Let's Start" 

Fela Kuti - Zombie mp3 at Truants 

Fela Kuti - Expensive Shit mp3 at Review Stalker 

Orlando Julius & His Modern Aces - Mapani mp3 at Slumberland Records 

Joni Haastrup - Greetings mp3 (via DivShare) at American Athlete At DivShare click on the green "Download" button 

The Shaolin Afronauts - Journey Through Time mp3 (via DivShare) at American Athlete 

Ebo Taylor - Atwer Aroba mp3 at American Athlete 

Ebo Taylor - Victory mp3 at Mixtape Riot 

Ebo Taylor - Mizin mp3 at Mixtape Riot 

C.K. Mann & Carousel 7 - Asafo Beesuon/Obaa Yaa Aye Me Bone mp3 at American Athlete

COLOMBIAN FELA COVER. REALLY.

This is how things happen around here (again). Yesterday I was ran into a link to a cover of the Meters' "Sissy Strut." If you know the Meters, you know the song. It's been covered a lot. (Must've been the go-to cover back in the 70's.) The particular version I clicked on was done by Sunny & the Sunliners, a band that I was getting a fairly giddy about a few weeks ago. Needless to say, "Cissy Strut" + Sunny and the Sunliners = Get outta my way! Boy, was I lucky that the clicking finger had a light touch; because the host blog, Musica del Alma, is a really good one. I intend to be lurking around over there with regularity. Check it out. My spot check revealed some consistently good stuff. After just a quick look around, I found another neat cover, of Fela's "Let's Start," by a Colombian band called Phirpo y sus Caribes. Too good not to share. If I was you I'd just bookmark that site.

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Listen:
Sunny & the Sunliners - Cissy Strut mp3 at Musica Del Alma
Phirpo y sus Caribes - Comencemos mp3 at Musica del Alma
Visit:
Musica del Alma