The music on this new album features a host of rarities from legendary Cuban artists, most of whose names remain largely unknown outside of Cuba but have long been favourite club tracks and secret-weapons in Gilles Peterson’s record boxes!

The music on this album reflects the most cutting-edge of Cuban groups that were recording in Cuba in the 1970s and 1980s – all searching for a new Cuban identity and new musical forms reflecting both the Afro-Cuban cultural heritage of a nation that gave birth to Latin music and its new position as a socialist state. Most of the music featured on this album has never been heard outside of Cuba.

Both Gilles Peterson and Stuart Baker have been involved in Cuban music for more than two decades – Gilles Peterson with his many Havana Cultura projects for his Brownswood label and Stuart Baker with a number of Soul Jazz Records albums recorded in Cuba. This Soul Jazz Records album is released in conjunction with Egrem, the Cuban state record company, and has been put together after the many crate-digging trips that both compilers have made on the streets of Havana and beyond in Cuba stretching over a 20-year period, searching out rare and elusive original Cuban vinyl records.

Tracklisting:

1. Juan Pablo Torres Y Algo Nuevo – Y Que Bien

2. Orquesta Los Van Van – Por Que Lo Haces

3. Los Latinos – Quemando

4. Farah María – Amame y No Pienses Mas

5. FA 5 – Muevete Con Las Fuerzas Del Corazon

6. Tambores De Enrique Bonne – Como Arrullos De Palma

7. Ricardo Eddy Martinez – Expreso Ritmico

8. Los Papines – Solo De Tumba y Bongo

9. Grupo Sintesis – Aqui Estamos

10. Los Van Van – Llegada

11. Grupo Raices Nuevas – Baila Mi Guaguancó

12. Luis Carbonell – La Rumba

13. Orquesta Riverside – En Casa Del Trompo No Bailes

14. Juan Formel and Los Van Van – Llegue, Llegue

15. Grupo Los Yoyi – Tu No Me Puedes Conquistar

16. Los Papines – Para Que Niegas ?

17. Grupo De Experimentación Sonora Del ICAIC – ¡ Cuba Va !

18. Raul Gomez – Luces En La Pista

19. Los Brito – El 4-5-6

20. Leo Brouwer – Tema de El Rancheador De La Naturaleza

21. Ricardo Eddy Martinez – La 132

22. Los Reyes 73 – Finalizo Un Amor