Saboreando Pot Full Of Soul - THE 107TH STREET STICKBALL TEAM (1969)
I love genre collisions (… and genre destruction… and genre recontextualization… and regular genres…). I’m an especially big fan of combinations that cross racial and cultural lines, proving the cosmic-conscious universality of music and all that. I won’t get too far into my Jung / Whitehead / Ken Wilbur / Robert Anton Wilson neuro-hippie bullshit today. Suffice to say, there’s really no division in music (or most other places) that can’t be blurred to good effect.
“Boogaloo” was a genre that was locked both in a specific time and a specific location: it was the sound of NYC soul and R&B of the 60s colliding with the Cuban and Puerto Rican communities that all shared the same stretch of the city.
This is one of producer Bobby Marin’s collections of the sound. Some of it is pretty standard soul. Some of it is pretty standard 60s Latin salsa. But it really gets good when the two blend and circle around each other, showing off the power of both styles.
