It’s all about the sunniest and sultriest of Latin soul jazz on the new one from Bahama Soul Club – i.e. Mango – graced by the vocal talents of Cuban singer Arema Arega. With new LP Bohemia After Dawn imminent, it offers a second glimpse of what to expect following Never Roam No More. The EP consists of the original version plus bossa and reggae remixes from Club Des
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BAHAMA SOUL CLUB & AREMA AREGA: Mango EP
BAHAMA SOUL CLUB feat. JOHN LEE HOOKER: Never Roam No More
John Lee Hooker? Oh what as in “My first wife left me! Da-dada, da-da!” Well, that John Lee Hooker certainly and, equally certainly, vocals lifted from his 1946 Delta blues cut My First Wife Left Me but no, not very much ‘Da-dada, da-da.” That wouldn’t be very Bahama Soul Club now would it? Turns out this track is their response to Ike Turner once having a grumble that with blues “all you
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BAHAMA SOUL CLUB: The Havana Remixes (2017)
Having established a popular latin breakbeat insurgency with their recent Havana ’58, Bahama Soul Club don’t appear to have had any trouble recruiting like-minds to join their cause. This has culminated in The Havana Remixes – on which a set nine-tracks deep is delivered by an eight-strong unit of guerrilla producers consisting of Smoove, Suonho, Jack Jointz, Opolopo
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BAHAMA SOUL CLUB: Havana ’58 (2016)
No prizes for guessing the vibe on Bahama Soul Club‘s new album Havana ’58. That’s right, they’re channelling the spirit of pre-Castro times when corruption was rife and Cuba was a Caribbean playboys’ playground. Of course, this was also a golden era for music in the ‘Pearl of the Antilles’ – the irony being that casting out the capitalist pigs meant losing the grooves too. One consequence of
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