Craft Latino has introduced a particular fiftieth anniversary reissue of the Grammy-nominated album Barretto, the genre-defining salsa traditional from legendary conguero and bandleader, Ray Barretto. Set to drop on Could ninth, Barretto returns to vinyl for the primary time since its 1975 launch.
Order the fiftieth anniversary version of Barretto.
The reissue of Barretto was mastered from its unique analog tapes by Dave Polster and Clint Holley at Effectively Made Music and pressed on 180-gram vinyl and housed in a duplicate of its traditional jacket, together with a die-cut flap on the entrance cowl that opens as much as album credit and the unique cowl notes written by Pablo “Yoruba” Guzman. A limited-edition “Yellow Smoke” 140-gram shade vinyl variant (restricted to 300 copies), with an unique bundle choice that features a traditional Fania Data T-shirt, is on the market on Fania’s web site. Moreover, the album will make its debut in hi-res (192/24) digital.
Barretto was launched because the follow-up to Ray’s 1973 best-selling album Indestructible. When he returned to the studio he was joined by two new additions to his group: Panamanian singer-songwriter Rubén Blades and Puerto Rican singer Tito Gómez—each of whom would turn out to be common fixtures in Barretto’s band earlier than breaking out as stars in their very own proper.
Barretto was an instantaneous salsa traditional. Album opener “Guararé” turned a signature tune for the singer—making him synonymous with the son cubano fashion. Different highlights embrace the rumba-son “Ban Ban Queré” and the lushly organized son montuno “Vine pa’ echar candela,” with Blades on vocals.
The album additionally arrived at a very important time for the style. Because the percussionist and author Bobby Sanabria as soon as remarked, “1975 was a pivotal year, as the Latin music industry showed that it could grow commercially while retaining its integrity and embracing progressive new ideas. There is no better example of this tendency than the album known simply as Barretto.”
Order the fiftieth anniversary version of Barretto.
