The sympathetic reissue label Vampi Soul is releasing an album with new work for the first time in its history. But those who do not know better would swear that these are forgotten recordings from the seventies, when Joe Bataan laid the foundation for Latin soul in the New York district of Harlem. After the hit Rap-O-Clap-O from 1979, with which he anticipated the hip-hop explosion of a few years
… later, nothing more was heard in the record field of the man who single-handedly created a fusion between the pulse of funk and the rhythms of the music. salsa. Bataan was not granted mainstream success and he has since gone through life as a cult figure. Thirty years of silence and then an album of only eight songs. On paper it looks a bit thin, but that the man with that characteristic, somewhat husky singing voice is still that way ' Knowing how to create a swinging authentic sound is a pleasant surprise. (MS)more
