Nilo Espinosa - Shaken, Not Stirred (2010)

Tracklist

01. Reflexiones
02. El gato
03. Think
04. Las mariposas
05. Summer Love
06. Black Ángel
07. Get Out of My Way
08. Here Come The Hilton's
09. Sherezade
10. El bueno, el feo y el malo
11. Hard Work
12. Looking for a Blues
13. Somos nada
14. Midnight and You
15. Gotas de miel
16. Light My Fire
17. Rock Your Baby
18. People Got To Be Free



A comprehensive anthology including all of the different music projects of outstanding Peruvian flute and saxophone player Nilo Espinosa. On this compilation, you can find most of his best and grooviest tracks from the 60s and 70s, playing with the Nil’s Jazz Ensemble, Bossa 70, Los Hilton’s, Nilo Espinosa & Los 007, or Nilo Espinosa y Su Orquesta. A total feast of tropical music, bossanova, boogaloo, Latin soul, jazz, funk, rumba, lounge, and even disco! Both the vinyl and the CD version come with extensive liner notes about this great artist.
Tracing the sonorous tracks of musicians and record industries in rarely visited music-minded countries never ceases to be gratifying. It’s a complicated task due to the lack of details and information, but also terribly appealing on account of the surprises one finds when trying. One such surprise is the work of the exquisite and utterly contemporary flautist and saxophonist, Nilo Espinosa. Beyond esthetic alibis, and several years past the commercial boom of an elegant kind of Lounge music, Espinosa’s recordings persevere for three reasons: attitude, quality and freshness. If, for him, the sixties were learning years, the seventies allowed him to develop his talent and consolidate his preference for upward moving rhythms with a lot of groove.

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