Easy Listening, or “sonido ambiental” as its known in spanish, can be a dubious genre to dive into but one that can render some interesting musical nuggets as well (that is after you get past all piles of Ray Coniff and Ferrate and Teicher). Latin America also produced its own variety of “easy” maestros among [...]
Filed under: Latin Soul/Funk | Tagged: covers, easy listening, funky organ, juan torres, organo melodico | Leave a Comment »
Rock del Sur is a series of posts featuring bands from south of the border from the 60′s and 70′s that will be coming up in the following weeks. First up from Mexico (maybe we can head south on the map the following post) is La Banda Macho de Mexico with a little batch of [...]
Filed under: Latin Rock/Psych, Latin Soul/Funk | Tagged: Banda Macho, covers, funk, latin rock, Monterrey | 1 Comment »
Following the release of the Woodstock film in 1970, Santana became an instant success with their Afro-Cuban blend of pscyh/blues/jazz/rock that soon toured the the globe including a prematurely ended tour of South America known as the Lotus tour in 1973. The tour must have nonetheless left a mark on the South American scene because [...]
Filed under: Latin Jazz, Latin Rock/Psych, Latin Soul/Funk | Tagged: covers, funky, latin psych, latin rock, Peru, Uruguay | Leave a Comment »
So it’s the weekend and as you decide what to do in the city, I thought I would share a little batch of latin disco groovers to get your weekend off to a sweet start, plus most of them clock in over five mins so they also work as a little background music while get [...]
Filed under: Disco | Tagged: charanga, covers, latin disco | Leave a Comment »
