Los Admiradores - Bongos
Posted on June 22, 2006 by Kris Holmes
This record is actually better than I remembered, which is always nice. It's an Enoch Light production loosely disguised as a latin record. The bongo stylings are provided by Willie Rodriguez and Don Lamond who basically go bongo mad over backings provided by a pretty sweet jazzy Enoch Light band that features the usual suspects (Tony Mottola, Ted Sommer, Pee Wee Erwin etc.). You get a bunch of jazz/pop standards with pretty cool arrangements and bongo breaks galore. Bluesy guitar lines and tight orchestration actually make this record quite listenable and there even a couple sampleable loops and breaks. Overall a pretty nice LP for what it is. Released on Universal here, but probably findable to you US guys on Command/Grand Award.
Los Admiradores - You The Night The Music.mp3
Filed under: Lounge / Exotica
3 Comments to “Los Admiradores - Bongos”
Absolutely fabulous !
How do I purchase this recorcing????
I have been searching for Bongos Bongos Bongos
for 2 years.
Thanx for any info
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It’s the era of digital downloads and video cell phones, right? Those under about 30 aren’t even able to remember Al Gore’s invention of the internet. So it may be thought-provoking that this L.P. harkens back to the golden age when stereo sound was quite novel. And one Enoch Light was a maven of recording big band jazz in tight stereo separation with highly distinctive arrangements. If you can’t tell, B-B-Bongos is one of my favorite albums.
Another of Enoch Light’s Command masterpieces is the L.P. that features Heatwave (from 1958’s Alexander’s Ragtime Band). Anyone heard it? Did Enoch Light realize, in arranging and producing this cut, that it was destined to be stolen and sliced-up by radio stations all over the country for use as authoritative, intimidating news intro signature? Heat Wave introduced the news on the great Storz stations WQAM, Miami and KXOK, St. Louis as well as the legendary WKNR, Detroit.
Enoch Light: one of the world’s early stereo studio geniuses!