Sonidos Encontrados is VMP’s new series celebrating deep cuts from the expansive catalog of Latin music. Eventually, the series will aim to reissue releases from many genres, countries, and eras, but the series’ first reissues are dedicated to the Fania label, in celebration of the label’s 60th anniversary.
Fania was the Motown of Latin Soul music in the '60s and '70s, the home to household names like Hector Lavoe, Ray Barretto, Celia Cruz, Johnny Pacheco, La Lupe, Joe Bataan, and Willie Colon.
Our first release in Sonidos Encontrados– Spanish for ‘’found sounds'' – is Willie Colón’s El Malo, the debut LP from the band leader, multi-instrumentalist, singer, and activist. Colón was the wunderkind of...
1 Jazzy |
2 Willie Baby |
3 Borinquen |
4 Willie Whopper |
1 El Malo |
2 Skinny Papa |
3 Chonqui |
4 Quimbombo |
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