Monguito Santamaria - Blackout (1970)@flac

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From Liner Notes

First things first.
Let’s not confuse Monguito Santamaria with his world-famous, late father the great conguero Mongo Santamaria. Still less with ‘Monguito’, the venerable Cuban sonero Ramon Quian who (confusingly) also recorded a couple of albums on Fania and Fania-related labels.
Our’ Monguito is a pianist as well as a highly skilled composer; arranger and bandleader In the space of just four albums over about seven years, Monguito covered the waterfront, turning his hand to almost every fashion in latin music with aplomb, originality and dexterity.
But our Monguito - or at least, those responsible for the original release of those four albums - seems to have been a member of the Secret Service, such is the paucity of recording and personnel information in almost all the record sleevenotes of the time.
The 1970 issue of this album lists Jerry Masucci (the original Fania boss) as Executive Directory and Johnny Pacheco (Dominican flautist and Fania co-founder) as Musical Director And that’s about it...

... So what makes Monguito Santamaria special? Mainly, it’s his highly fluent and versatile keyboard style. He can hold down a left-hand tumbao in his sleep, but he's equally able to relax into an improvisation when the occasion arises (listen to his loose right wrist in "Todo Es Todo"). And he knows how to pump that essential hamhock grease into the soul numbers, never erring on the side of cabaret sweetness as many of his contemporaries did.
Overall, if you were limited to buying just one Monguito Santamaria album and wanted something fully representative of his talent and potential,‘Black Out’ would be the one to choose.
Original copies in mint condition regularly change hands for 50 Dollars or more: and that’s without sleevenotes! (From Liner Notes)

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REVIEW

Stone funky Latin soul from the younger member of the Santamaria family!
Black Out is one of Monguito's greatest – a hip album of groovy late 60s tracks that perfectly blend the Latin and soul sides of the Spanish Harlem scene.
Marty Sheller handled arrangements on some of the album's best cuts, giving them the same tight funky feel as his best work with the senior member of the Santamaria clan – and Ronnie Marks sings English language lyrics on the tracks "All Your Talk", "I've Got To Find", "Crying Time", and "You Need Help". Other tracks are Latin, and titles include "Guarara", "Sueno Contigo", and "Todo Es Todo" (dustygroove.com)

01. Crying Time [2:52]
02. Asi Sere Para Ti [3:43]
03. Guarara [3:09]
04. You Need Help [2:28]
05. Sueno Contigo [3:35]
06. Todo Es Todo [3:20]
07. I 've Got To Find [2:48]
08. Son Del Monte [4:43]
09. All Your Talk [2:52]
Vocals [English] - Ronnie Marks

Arranged By - Marty Sheller
Producer - Jerry Masucci
Recording Director - Johnny Pacheco
Album Design & Back Cover Creation - Izzy Sanabria
Photography - Felix Romero

Label: Fania Records / V2 Records
Released: 2006
Catalogue: FANIA1039622
Codec: Flac
Compression Level: 6
Quality: High
CD-rip by alekow (EAC and Flac)
Covers Included (600dpi)
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