The Guantanamo Boys. Latin Guateque.

Label: Gladys Palmera – DGP01
Format: Vinyl, 10", 45 RPM, Limited Edition, Stereo, Limited Edition 300 copies
Country: Spain
Released: 2021

First vinyl reissue of one of the most sought-after jewels of Latin music. DJs and collectors from all over the world have spent years looking for this wonder and the Gladys Palmera Record Company has just reissued it. "Let's dance The Bugalu/Aprende Mi Tumbao", by The Guantanamo Boys, is possibly one of the most sought-after vinyls of recent times, a jewel produced in the late 60s by the pioneer of Latin music in the United States, Gabriel Oller. The first song is an invitation to a party with a dialogue that gives way to a game of palms, characteristic of the musical phenomenon of the late 60s of the twentieth century known as boogaloo. It is in short a "clap your hands". The second song is a guajira, a Cuban rhythm that pianist Pete Rodríguez associated with boogaloo when singing: "Boogaloo is guajira and rock and roll, I tell you mulata, nobody dances like me like that, like this, like this." The passage of time has not affected its powerful pace. On the contrary, today its Afro-Cuban + groove + funk + Latin soul sound is felt with more impetus, which made it a cult object by collectors and DJs around the world. As the best MCs and DJ Selectors say: "The Guantanamo Boys is the holy grail of Latin sessions". We had been waiting for him for years. Produced by Gabriel Oller as an Extended Play on his label SMC (Spanish Music Center), without cover and with hardly any credits from the participating artists, this album by The Guantanamo Boys was a discovery for the gladys Palmera Collection team, the largest collection of Afro-Latin music in the world. That is why we have reissued it preserving the original sound and taking care of every detail of a recording in which the multi-instrumentalist Ray Fernández (known in the 70s by the alternative salsa-funk band Ray And His Court), the pianist and arranger Papi Peña (Conjunto Impacto) and the singer Rubén Ríos, better known as Mr. Pachanga, intervened. pioneer of Cuban music in the USA.