En Español
Label | Liquidator Music – LQ 007-R |
Format | Vinyl, LP, Album, Deluxe Edition, Remastered |
Barcode | 8429006475230 |
Country | Spain |
Released | 11 Nov 2019 |
Genre | Reggae, Latin |
Style | Ska |
Laurel Aitken, the legendary Godfather of Ska, has also got a spanish album on his wide discography. He sadly passed away on July 17th. of 2005 and this one is his only spanish album on his long career.Laurel was born in Cuba in 1925, but emigrated to Jamaica at the age of eight years old, he could speak perfect spanish and this was a really long awaited recording, a project he was planing for decades. The title just mean In Spanish, you can find on this album classic spanish, in bluebeat style, like Perfidia, Quizas Quizas or La Paloma, but also a few Laurel Aitken hits sung in spanish for the very first time. At the age of 72 years old Laurel teached some good lessons to the long stablished spanish bands of how can reggae and ska been interpretated in spanish that naturally.The album was recorded with one of the best ever spanish ska band: Los Skarlatines, with whom Laurel toured extensively trhough Europe, speacialy in Spain, of course.
A1 | La Paloma | |
A2 | Negro | |
A3 | Médico Brujo | |
A4 | Quizás Quizás | |
A5 | Auge Y Caida | |
A6 | Niña Niña | |
B1 | Ojos Sexys | |
B2 | Perfidia | |
B3 | Sahara | |
B4 | Mi Vida Sin Tu Amor | |
B5 | Aquellos Ojos Verdes |
Bass – Raul De La Cruz
Congas – Hugo
Congas – Natalia
Drums – Miguel A. Torres
Engineer [Assistant] – Rubén López
Guitar – Rubén Garrido
Percussion – Antonio J. Iglesias Zurita
Performer – Skarlatines
Photography – Ivan Algarra
Photography – Susana Murillo
Piano, Organ – Paioriccio
Producer – Laurel Aitken
Producer – Toni Face
Saxophone – David Carrasco
Trombone – Alejandro Del Olmo
Trumpet – Iván Estangüi
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