MIKE GUAGENTI - SALSA CON CHARANGA *Pre-Order

Release Date Friday 28th March 2025
All pre-orders will be dispatched/made ready for collection on that day.

“Salsa con charanga” is really a feast for all salsa music lovers, a true jewel, which deserved much better when it originally came out in 1978.

It comprises eight great, solid tracks; some, new interpretations from other albums in which Mike Guagenti participated with his handsome and captivating voice - a crooner with a salsero soul -, that, at times, could remind us of the late Tito Rodríguez, and even Ray Ramos.

It has developed a cult following, and finding a copy of the original could be quite expensive. Luckily, this officially licensed and restored edition will fill that void.

DESCRIPTION

“Salsa con charanga” is really a feast for all salsa music lovers, a true jewel, which deserved much better when it originally came out in 1978. In addition to being a great salsa album, has the distinction that was released on Orfeon, a Mexican record label, due to the diligent work of the extraordinary producer Bobby Marin, and which miraculously received air play when powerhouse Fania label and few others ruled radio in the salsa music world.

It comprises eight great, solid tracks; some, new interpretations from other albums in which Mike Guagenti participated with his handsome and captivating voice - a crooner with a salsero soul -, that, at times, could remind us of the late Tito Rodríguez, and even Ray Ramos. "The Mike Guagenti album," as indicated by Marin, "is a compilation of recordings by other artists. Originally a salsa album, I brought in [Cuban] Pupi Legarreta (violin and flute) and [Panamanian] Mauricio Smith (flute) to give it a charanga sound."  With the exception of the cut ‘Salsa con charanga,’ which is an instrumental, the rest feature vocals by Guagenti.

“Salsa con charanga” has developed a cult following, and finding a copy of the original could be quite expensive. Luckily, this officially licensed and restored edition will fill that void.

TRACKLIST

Side A

1. SALSA CON CHARANGA

2. SONAREMO EL TAMBÓ

3. DELIRIO

4. LA PELUCA

Side B

1. LA PUERTA DEL DOLOR

2. A LOS MUCHACHOS DE BELÉN

3. ENSAYA CHAMACO

4. EL TIBIRI TABARA

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