“This shit is in my blood,” Rene Lopez says with a cool self-assuredness on his phenomenal E.L.S. and although it may seem like a throwaway line to the uninitiated but it’s actually quite revelatory as Lopez has […]
Tag: Ray Barretto
Rene Lopez may well be one of the most talented, charming and sadly under-appreciated artists I’ve had the unique pleasure of covering and getting to know through this site’s history. As the son of Rene Lopez Sr, […]
Ray Lugo and the Boogaloo Destroyers at NUBLU 7/11/14
Ray Lugo and the Boogaloo Destroyers Nublu July 11, 2014 Originally founded back in 1964 by the Dominican bandleader and composer Johnny Pacheco and an Italian-American lawyer, Jerry Masucci, Fania Records quickly became the beloved […]
Originally founded back in 1964 by the Dominican bandleader and composer Johnny Pacheco and an Italian-American lawyer, Jerry Masucci, Fania Records quickly became the beloved home of salsa music, the sound that courses through the barrios of […]
http://bandcamp.com/EmbeddedPlayer/track=3877283800/size=large/bgcol=ffffff/linkcol=0687f5/tracklist=false/artwork=small/transparent=true/ Over the last two decades, the Richmond, VA-based salsa act Bio Ritmo have developed a reputation for experimentation and stubbornly refusing to be pigeonholed, as they’ve employed the use of synths, along with traditional salsa […]
There’s something about the rhythms of salsa that automatically brings summer to mind – or more precisely the sounds of the streets of Corona, Queens during the summer, as you’d hear salsa being played from […]