Siembra’s title track is all about Latino pride and emancipation and the epic “Pedro Navaja, ” a seven-minute tour de force blending Kafka, Bertolt Brecht, West Side Story, and tropical fever, remains to this day the ultimate salsa epic─a stark, richly layered illustration of the genre’s unlimited potential. “Buscando Guayaba” combines picaresque innuendo with a devastating groove, complete with an improvised “mouth solo” in lieu of a guitar. Opening track “Plástico” uses a disco-flavored false start as the jumping board for a simmering salsa jam condemning prejudice and materialism. If their previous album together had already merged Afro-Caribbean beats with sociopolitical messages, Siembra was the thinking Latino’s ideological manifesto. Released in 1978, Siembra was the second full-length collaboration between Panamanian singer/songwriter Rubén Blades-formerly a vocalist with Ray Barretto’s orchestra-and visionary Nuyorican producer Willie Colón, who had already made history with a string of superlative albums featuring mercurial salsa star Héctor Lavoe.Ĭolón’s soulful sonic identity-built on layers of trombone riffs, always eager to incorporate the influence of outside genres-provided the perfect counterpoint to Blades’ songwriting universe. In addition, an emerald green color vinyl will be available exclusively at, along with exciting bundle options that include a commemorative Siembra T-shirt.
The iconic album will also be released in hi-res digital for the first time, including 192/24 and 96/24 formats.
Los Angeles, CA (May 27, 2021)- Craft Latino, the Latin repertoire arm of Craft Recordings, is proud to present an all-analog remastered vinyl reissue of Siembra, the transcendental album that caused a revolution in Latin music and for many years was the best-selling album in salsa history.ĭue out August 6th and available to pre-order beginning today, the new edition of Siembra was remastered from its original analog master tapes by Phil Rodriguez at Elysian Masters and pressed on 180-gram, black audiophile quality vinyl at Memphis Record Pressing. Click here for online media kit and click here to download artwork
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