Vendor: Ray Barretto
Type: Bundle
Price: 45.00

Bundle includes Ray Barretto’s album Que Viva La Música, on 180-gram Red vinyl, limited to 1000 copies and exclusive to the Fania and sanantoniolimorepair stores, and the black Fania Logo Black T-Shirt

Que Viva La Musica just turned 50 and features Barretto at his peak of the “Hard Salsa” era. The album contains the track “Cocinando” from the famed documentary Our Latin Thing which alone makes the record worth the price of admission. Other key tracks include “La Pelota” and “Que Viva La Musica”. Recorded in 1972, the recording features his original Salsa band including Adalberto Santiago and Orestes Vilato before their storied breakup. Now available remastered for the first time in decades. 

Features

• Features “Que Viva la Música” an ominous crescendo of soulful percussion and wailing trumpets, followed by the warmth of Adalberto's soneos and the tune's exuberant chorus.
• ALL-ANALOG mastering from the original
• Pressed on 180-gram vinyl at Memphis Record Pressing

Tracklist

Side A

1. Que Viva la Música
2. Bruca Maniguá
3. La Pelota
4. El Tiempo lo Dirá

Side B

1. Cocinando
2. Triunfó el Amor
3. Alafia Cumaye

Vendor: Ray Barretto
Type: Vinyl
Price: 29.98

Que Viva La Música just turned 50 and features Barretto at his peak of the “Hard Salsa” era. The album contains the track “Cocinando” from the famed documentary Our Latin Thing which alone makes the record worth the price of admission. Other key tracks include “La Pelota” and “Que Viva La Música”. Recorded in 1972, the recording features his original Salsa band including Adalberto Santiago and Orestes Vilato before their storied breakup. Now available remastered for the first time in decades. 

 Features

• Features “Que Viva la Música” an ominous crescendo of soulful percussion and wailing trumpets, followed by the warmth of Adalberto's soneos and the tune's exuberant chorus.
• ALL-ANALOG mastering from the original
• Pressed on 180-gram vinyl at Memphis Record Pressing

Tracklist:

Side A

1. Que Viva la Música
2. Bruca Maniguá
3. La Pelota
4. El Tiempo lo Dirá

Side B

1. Cocinando
2. Triunfó el Amor
3. Alafia Cumaye

Vendor: Ray Barretto
Type: Apparel
Price: 25.00

• Limited edition Que Viva La Musica T-Shirt
• Printed on 100% cotton shirts (Black)

Vendor: Ray Barretto
Type: Digital Album
Price: 18.00

Deliverable via email in your choice of MP3, hi-res WAV or hi-res FLAC on December 15, 2023.

The year 1973 was both a successful and stressful time for Ray Barretto. His band had developed a loyal following among dancers of the new Afro-Cuban-based music known as salsa. He had achieved success as a composer with “Cocinando,” the theme song for the Fania produced movie Our Latin Thing. But his band’s explosive rhythm team of Orestes Vilató on timbales, Johnny Rodríguez on bongó and cencerro, bassist Dave Pérez, pianist Louis Crúz, along with trumpeter René López and vocalist Adalberto Santiago would eventually all leave him. He was heartbroken. He had developed what every bandleader wants, a sound, but Barretto was undaunted and would rebuild. He would call upon an old friend, trumpeter Roberto Rodríguez, who had decided to stay. Fellow trumpeter Joseph “Papy” Román also remained, and Barretto would form a new group that would re-define Barretto’s sound and re-affirm his position as a band leader. Indestructible announced the return of Ray Barretto to the salsa scene in a big way.

Indestructible is Ray Baretto’s most remarkable work of virtuosity exploding with an opening continuous roll that lasts with accents and tones thrown in at surprising moments along with a series of Afro-Cuban rhythms.

Features:

• Features “Indestructible”
• Hi-Res Remastering

TRACK LIST:

1. El Hijo De Obatalá
2. El Diablo
3. Yo Tengo un Amor
4. La Familia
5. La Orquesta
6. Llanto de Cocodrilo
7. Ay No
8. Indestructible

Vendor: Ray Barretto
Type: Digital Album
Price: 17.98

Deliverable via email in your choice of MP3, hi-res WAV or hi-res FLAC.

Que Viva La Música just turned 50 and features Barretto at his peak of the “Hard Salsa” era. The album contains the track “Cocinando” from the famed documentary Our Latin Thing which alone makes the record worth the price of admission. Other key tracks include “La Pelota” and “Que Viva La Musica”. Recorded in 1972, the recording features his original Salsa band including Adalberto Santiago and Orestes Vilato before their storied breakup. Now available remastered for the first time in decades. 

TRACK LIST:

1. Que Viva la Música
2. Bruca Maniguá
3. La Pelota
4. El Tiempo lo Dirá
5. Cocinando
6. Triunfó el Amor
7. Alafia Cumaye

Vendor: Ray Barretto
Type: Digital Album
Price: 9.99

Details

Deliverable via email in your choice of MP3, hi-res WAV or hi-res FLAC.

By 1966, a new sound had appeared on the New York dance music scene – Latin Boogaloo. A unique combination of son montuno, cha-cha-cha and R&B, this new sound was put down by many established bandleaders and purists. Ray Barretto's debut album for Fania, 1968's Acid, opens with the funky, hard-driving son montuno titled "El Nuevo Barretto."

Listen closely to the opening break/trumpet phrase. Carlos Santana would recycle it later in his version of Tito Puente's "Oye Como Va." On "Mercy, Mercy, Baby," vocalist and fellow Nuyorican Pete Bonet, easily riffs in English, reflecting the influence African-American culture has had on the New York-Puerto Rican experience. One of the gems on this recording is certainly the title tune, a tour de force that combines a jazz aesthetic with the drive of Afro-Cuban rhythm. Further standouts like "A Deeper Shade of Soul," "The Soul Drummers" and "Teacher of Love" continue in the boogaloo groove.

Tracklist

1. El Nuevo Barretto
2. Mercy, Mercy Baby
3. Acid
4. A Deeper Shade Of Soul
5. The Soul Drummers
6. Sola Te Dejare
7. Teacher Of Love
8. Espiritu Libre

Features

• 1968's Acid was Ray Barretto's debut album for Fania.
• A unique combination of son montuno, cha-cha-cha and R&B, this new sound was put down by many established bandleaders and purists.

Vendor: Ray Barretto
Type: Bundle
Price: 48.00

Bundle includes Ray Barretto album Indestructible, on 180-gram Baby Blue vinyl, limited to 500 copies and exclusive to the Fania and sanantoniolimorepair stores, and the black Indestructible T-Shirt.

Album Description:

The year 1973 was both a successful and stressful time for Ray Barretto. His band had developed a loyal following among dancers of the new Afro-Cuban-based music known as salsa. He had achieved success as a composer with “Cocinando,” the theme song for the Fania produced movie Our Latin Thing. But his band’s explosive rhythm team of Orestes Vilató on timbales, Johnny Rodríguez on bongó and cencerro, bassist Dave Pérez, pianist Louis Crúz, along with trumpeter René López and vocalist Adalberto Santiago would eventually all leave him. He was heartbroken. He had developed what every bandleader wants, a sound, but Barretto was undaunted and would rebuild. He would call upon an old friend, trumpeter Roberto Rodríguez, who had decided to stay. Fellow trumpeter Joseph “Papy” Román also remained, and Barretto would form a new group that would re-define Barretto’s sound and re-affirm his position as a band leader. Indestructible announced the return of Ray Barretto to the salsa scene in a big way.

Indestructible is Ray Baretto’s most remarkable work of virtuosity exploding with an opening continuous roll that lasts with accents and tones thrown in at surprising moments along with a series of Afro-Cuban rhythms.

T-Shirt Description:

• Limited Edition Indestructible T-Shirt
• Featuring the original Indestructible album cover art.
• Printed on Next Level 3600 100% Cotton Shirts (Black)

Vendor: Ray Barretto
Type: Apparel
Price: 25.00

• Limited Edition Indestructible T-Shirt
• Featuring the original Indestructible album cover art.
• Printed on Next Level 3600 100% Cotton Shirts (Black)

Vendor: Ray Barretto
Type: Vinyl
Price: 30.00

The year 1973 was both a successful and stressful time for Ray Barretto. His band had developed a loyal following among dancers of the new Afro-Cuban-based music known as salsa. He had achieved success as a composer with “Cocinando,” the theme song for the Fania produced movie Our Latin Thing. But his band’s explosive rhythm team of Orestes Vilató on timbales, Johnny Rodríguez on bongó and cencerro, bassist Dave Pérez, pianist Louis Crúz, along with trumpeter René López and vocalist Adalberto Santiago would eventually all leave him. He was heartbroken. He had developed what every bandleader wants, a sound, but Barretto was undaunted and would rebuild. He would call upon an old friend, trumpeter Roberto Rodríguez, who had decided to stay. Fellow trumpeter Joseph “Papy” Román also remained, and Barretto would form a new group that would re-define Barretto’s sound and re-affirm his position as a band leader. Indestructible announced the return of Ray Barretto to the salsa scene in a big way.

Indestructible is Ray Baretto’s most remarkable work of virtuosity exploding with an opening continuous roll that lasts with accents and tones thrown in at surprising moments along with a series of Afro-Cuban rhythms.

Features
• Features “Indestructible”
• ALL-ANALOG mastering
• Pressed on 180-gram vinyl

Track List:

Side A
1. El Hijo De Obatalá
2. El Diablo
3. Yo Tengo un Amor
4. La Familia

Side B
5. La Orquesta
6. Llanto de Cocodrilo
7. Ay No
8. Indestructible