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A Pow Wow    • NEW TROPICAL TIGERS 45 OUT! Los Melód...  
B Les Cornichon    • NEW TROPICAL TIGERS 45 OUT! Los Melód...  

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After some time the new tiger is out and more others are on the way. Two atomic bombs here, made for the hottest dancefloors. Cutted in 1967 from the orchestra Los Melodicos of Venezuela. A cover of the legendary tune Pow Wow by Manny Corchado and a boogaloo version of Les
Cornichon that builds and builds. A gozar!

The record label original tapes were kinda burned and we had to get the masters from the original venezuelan Lp. The job has been done with
great maestry by Gianluca Patrito at G-Effect studio, with Hi-end equipments and pro service. A special thanks goes to Ale Tubo who provided the valve pre-amp to warm up the signal. It sounds like a 💣

As always everything has been licensed from the copyright owners (Discomoda Records).

LINER NOTES by: @fonsoul BCN

After 6 long years of silence, the guy from Tropical Tigers is back, this time to stay! Luis Soulful’s latin and tropical sounds oriented label is focused on unearthing rare and cool as a fuck stuff for the first time on 7”.

For their 2nd reference on the label, we go to the warm Venezuela to join Los Melodicos, a Caracas orchestra with a long career, as many others in South America, founded in the late 50s by bandleader Renato Capriles and lasting more than half century until his death in 2014.
Back then, those big orchestras had a key role developing local music scenes, they brought the “new” sounds to the young audience and cheered wealthy crowds by playing on local night clubs, but also launched successful careers of many singers and musicians.
So we are in 1967 and Renato and his team are releasing a new LP (they did around 3-4 every year, so you can guess their frantic productivity).
They call it “todos los ritmos” (all rhythms) including some classic and also some “new” sounds to perform, on a wide spectrum of all trendy latin sounds of the time: cumbia, guagancó, guaracha, bolero…and a more recent one that everybody was talking about, coming from the States, the boogaloo. Representing this sound, they decided to include two recent releases from abroad.

First one from a young NY orchestra leader who had just got his LP licensed in Venezuela. Yes Manny Corchado, and his epitomical “pow wow”!
So Los Melodicos take was released only a few months after Corchado’s, on a quite different atmosphere, more “latin” and relaxed than Corchado’s boogaloo storm, but totally cool, with handclapping, great percussions and horns section, and even with additional funny spoken words, what more do you need?

And the second one, a nice cha-cha-cha tingued but also jazzy take of Nino Ferrer’s “les cornichons” released a year before, which was in fact a rip-off with added vocals of an older instro by James Booker named “big nick”. I specially dig the piano and sax breaks on this take, out of the scale!

And now let’s go nowadays. Pow wow has become a mod anthem for more than two decades. Many of my friends say when a new “marmite” tune shows up on the scene “it’s the new pow wow”. So you can think, it’s a bit overplayed even though every time it gets a play at the proper time in a nighter, everybody dances like mad. And then you listen to Los Melodicos version for a first time. Wow! Yes it’s still the tune but on a completely different perspective, sounds fresh! Let’s play it!
I told to myself those exact words many years ago. Then I noticed it’s LP only, so quickly found me a copy, but sadly I finally ended up playing it only in local gigs, as carrying LPs out is not easy at all, you well know that.

So now, thanks to Tropical Tigers, we have a 7” release on these two winners for a first time! For many they’re gonna be new versions you’ve never heard, and for those as me who have been playing the LP since long, we may decide to carry the 7” around. A WIN-WIN situation!
As you know, it’s gonna be released in very limited numbers, so you better hurry up ordering your copy! And please stay tuned for news on more upcoming releases on the label!

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