We present to you Rosa Tropical. An album that burns with the heat of a late night romance under an illuminated moon. An intense sense of groove born from something more than the streets, echoed by the familiar tone of agony and ecstasy. The type of music that plays in your neighborhood in a haze as the street traffic intensifies the mirage of the girl with brown skin and cinnamon eyes. Somewhere along the avenidas of the barrio you look to the night sky and know she thinks of you as the conga and trumpet lines caress the pulse of the city. Lose yourself in Rosa Tropical, a sound that is an emotional cruise through the psyche of love blossoming as the warmth of a spring night offers you her heart fully. Fresh new grooves from Almas Fronterizas cut at Timmion Records in Helsinki, Finland courtesy of Discos Pistolas y Saguaros and Empty Cellar Records. Produced by Greg Landau and recorded and engineered by Gabriel Shepard of 25th Street Recording in Oakland, CA. Limited to 300.
10" $19.00
12/22/2017
***Hard edged Chicano-Blues 7" "Malo" single backed by a pummeling cumbia number, "El Reventon". 45 RPM grooves cut at Timmion Records in Helsinki, Finland courtesy of Discos Pistolas y Saguaros. Produced by MIKE WALTI of Wyldwood Studio in Berkeley, CA. Limited to 300.
7" $12.25
10/27/2017
***Age old Bay Area Ohlone songs last recorded on 78 RPM shift to hot August night backyard quinceañera cumbia grooves and hard rock boogaloo, hand tailored for the Chicano/Native Rock group, ALMAS FRONTERIZAS. Bridging a sound that is as much for the Oakland/San Francisco back streets as the ceremonial prayer houses to the glow of LA and back to the people of the rural tribal reservations across the Mexico/United States border. Political underpinnings grace the album as in "California Shame," lyrically devoted to the Golden State water crisis and the disastrous effects of water sales and proposed twin tunnel projects that would further divert the Sacramento River for corporate agri-business. Closing track "Means Ballad" pays homage to American Indian Movement leader Russell Means. Pressed on 200-gram vinyl.
LP $26.25
10/27/2017