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r e l e a s e . i n f o
Artist.....: Joe Bataan
Title......: Young, Gifted & Brown
Rip Date...: Fev-02-2008 Cat.No.....: 062
Style......: Soul Label......: Vampi Soul
Quality....: VBRkbps Type.......: Album
Size.......: 98,8 MB Source.....: CDDA
r e l e a s e . n o t e s
No recording artist has more impeccable street credentials than
Joe Bataan, the originator of the New York Latin Soul style that
paralleled Latin bugalu and anticipated disco. His musical
experience began with street corner doo-wop in the 1950s, and came
to include one of the first rap records to hit the charts, 1979's
"Rap-O, Clap-O". In between these milestones, he recorded classic
albums like St. Latin's Day Massacre, a perennial favorite in the
salsa market, Salsoul, which gave the record label its name and
helped spark the national explosion of urban dance music, and
Afrofilipino, which included one of the very earliest New York
disco hits, an instrumental version of Gil Scott Heron's "The
Bottle".
Born Peter Nitollano, of African-American/Filipino parents, Joe
Bataan grew up in Spanish Harlem, where he ran with Puerto Rican
gangs and absorbed R&B, Afro-Cuban and Afro-Rican musical
influences. His music career followed a pair of stints in
Coxsackie State Prison. Self taught on the piano, he organized his
first band in 1965 and scored his first recording success in 1967
with "Gypsy Woman" on Fania Records, . The tune was a hit with the
New York Latin market despite the English lyrics sung by Joe, and
exemplified the nascent Latin Soul sound. In early anticipation of
the disco formula, "Gypsy Woman" created dance energy by
alternating what was fundamentally a pop-soul tune with a break
featuring double timed hand claps, . Joe would take this tendency
even further on his influential Salsoul, which fused funk and
latin influences in slick yet soulful orchestrations. Salsoul
remains influential as a rare groove cult item, but pointed to the
future at the time of its release. The LP embodied the artist's
highly deliberate and culturally aware musical concept. Bataan
theorized the '70s next big thing as a hybrid: an Afro Cuban
rhythm section playing Brazilian influenced patterns over
orchestral funk. In many ways, his vision was on the money, though
most of the money would go to others, and mainstream stardom would
elude him. He did, however, get in on the ground floor of the new
trend as an early hit maker. His biggest commercial move was a
Salsoul production released under the Epic umbrella, and promoted
to the new disco market as Afrofilipino, which included 1975's
"The Bottle", a much anthologized classic that drives an R&B horn
arrangment with a relentless piano montuno.
Always in touch with the street, Joe Bataan picked up on rap very
early in the game. His minor rap hit, "Rap-O, Clap-O" was a bit
more successful in Europe than in the States, and is remembered as
rap's debut in the European market. Nevertheless, his legacy
remains his gritty and realistic Latin soul lyrics, his self
identification as an "Ordinary Guy", and his highly personal and
prophetic merger of Latin and soul influences.
http://www.vampisoul.com
p l a y l i s t
01 ordinary guy 03:25
02 what good is a castle 06:56
03 if this world were mine 03:00
04 poor boy 05:38
05 uptown 05:08
06 my cloud 03:16
07 i'm no stranger 02:17
08 under the street lamp 02:53
09 i'll be sweeter tomorrow 03:16
10 more love 02:43
11 unwed mother 02:41
12 young, gifted and brown 02:48
13 cowboys to girls 02:33
14 crystal blue persuasion 03:14
15 es tu cosa 03:19
16 coco-e 03:08
17 i wish you love pt. 1 03:32
18 i wish you love pt. 2 05:55
65:42 min
g r e e t i n g s
agw - amok - bass - bcc - bex - boss - cmg - cmc - cms - d2h
def - dh - disc0 - drum - emp - ftd - fwyh - gem - i8 - ipc
jce - jfk - jrp - just - khz - kinky - kw - lame - maem - mbs
mgc - psycz - r2r - rac - radial - rapid - rks - rtb - sb
sever - sfe - soup - sour - sq - tr - trt - ube - uc - upe
uki - xtc - yard - zi
respect to music lovers worldwide
never forget : go to the show. buy the t-shirt. order the vinyl