The Power Of Love, by Joe Acosta

The Power Of Love

by Joe Acosta

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Record/Vinyl + Digital Album
Puerto Rico-born pianist Joe Acosta had a long, if unsung career in Latin music, but his Ghetto Records LP is his best and most sought-after album. It’s easy to see why - deep trombones, fantastic piano solos, great Salsa alongside a couple of Latin Soul gems make for heady mix that embodies the Salsoul – Salsa meets Soul – movement kickstarted by Joe Bataan.

These are the definitive reissues of these albums, licensed from Joe Bataan, with his oversight and input into a 15 page oversize book by Pablo Yglesias that details Bataan’s larger-than-imagination life and his little Latin label that could.

Includes unlimited streaming of The Power Of Love via the free Bandcamp app, plus high-quality download in MP3, FLAC and more.

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Includes unlimited streaming via the free Bandcamp app, plus high-quality download in MP3, FLAC and more.

Purchasable with gift card

$10 USD or more

1.	I Need Her 03:15	buy track
2.	Bendita Illusion 02:41	buy track
3.	Una Traicion 05:46	buy track
4.	Amor Perdido 04:19	buy track
5.	Juliana 05:59	buy track
6.	Phoenix 03:35	buy track
7.	La Bendicion 03:50	buy track
8.	La Realidad 04:07	buy track

about

Ghetto Records was Latin music legend Joe Bataan’s way to get over on The Man and out of the ’hood, a bold move by an artist looking for independence and creative control in an industry that had exploited his talents and treated him like chattel.

As Bataan puts it today, “Ghetto Records was part of my journey, a stepping stone to everything else that I’ve done. I learned enough that it enabled me to get out of the box with my thinking, it showed me how to deal with adversity.” Like many dreams and schemes born of the street, this one was audacious, perhaps even reckless to a fault.

Hatched from desperation yet full of hope Ghetto Records came crashing down shortly after its inception. The seven albums in its discography languished out of print - until now.