Roberto y su Nuevo Montuno recorded their first album, \u201cEl Nuevo Montuno Lleg\u00f3\u201d (1970), when Roberto Berr\u00edos was just 22 years old. This was also the debut release on Haddock\u2019s own Uniart label. <\/p>\n
Berr\u00edos remembers that they did the recording in two sessions, splitting it up into four tracks per visit. The engineer was the famed Pedro \u201cPedrito\u201d Henr\u00edquez, who recorded El Gran Combo, Roberto Roena and many others. The band had a mix of tasty, powerful originals, from Tony Cintr\u00f3n\u2019s title track that announced the band had arrived, \u2018El Nuevo Montuno Lleg\u00f3,\u2019 to Quique D\u00e1vila\u2019s mournful \u2018Triste Arrabal.\u2019 Then there was the hit Santer\u00eda themed tune, \u2018Llam\u00e9 a Chang\u00f3,\u2019 which was a song that Quique D\u00e1vila brought to the band, but had been originally composed by Carlos Pinto, though Quique was given the credit. D\u00e1vila also composed \u2018Me Queda Un Guaguanc\u00f3,\u2019 which is Roberto\u2019s favorite song on the record (as well as a fan favorite), with Papo sounding like his friend H\u00e9ctor Lavoe, and Quique D\u00e1vila\u2019s proud manifesto declaring that Puerto Rico now had its own son montuno, \u2018Oye Tu Son, Borinquen,\u2019 featuring the pianist\u2019s tasty but brief solo. <\/p>\n
The cover versions came from the group\u2019s earliest period when most of their repertoire consisted of renditions of beloved but lesser known tunes, and include Louie Ram\u00edrez\u2019s \u2018Balanc\u00e9ate\u2019 (a favorite of Roberto\u2019s from Ray Barretto\u2019s songbook), Bobby Valent\u00edn\u2019s \u2018Monina y Ram\u00f3n\u2019 (recorded during his stint with Willie Rosario), and a bolero indelibly sung by Cheo Feliciano when he was with the Joe Cuba Sextet, \u2018Dichoso,\u2019 written by Joe Cuba\u2019s talented pianist, Nick Jim\u00e9nez. Some of the arranging was done by Cintr\u00f3n and some by D\u00e1vila, though Quique had some help from his old friend from El Combo Moderno, Freddie Miranda, who at that time was with Roberto Roena\u2019s Apollo Sound. Roberto says that the arrangements of the cover tunes were made specifically to be different and more contemporary sounding than the originals. <\/p>\n
\u201cEl Nuevo Montuno Lleg\u00f3\u201d has become a legendary salsa dura classic from Puerto Rico and we are thrilled to present this first legitimately licensed and remastered vinyl reissue. It includes detailed liner notes that reveal the untold story of the band and their debut album, and rare photos.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
First legitimately licensed and remastered vinyl edition of this legendary salsa dura classic from Puerto Rico\u2019s Roberto Y Su Nuevo Montuno, originally released on Rub\u00e9n Haddock\u2019s Uniart label in 1970. <\/p>\n
Featuring detailed liner notes that reveal the untold story of the band and their debut album, and rare photos.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"featured_media":116930,"template":"","meta":{"_acf_changed":false},"product_brand":[],"product_cat":[193,205,206],"product_tag":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-116959","1":"product","2":"type-product","3":"status-publish","4":"has-post-thumbnail","6":"product_cat-latin-en","7":"product_cat-puerto-rico-en","8":"product_cat-salsa-en","9":"product_shipping_class-lp-en-4","10":"pa_formato-lp-en","12":"first","13":"outofstock","14":"taxable","15":"shipping-taxable","16":"purchasable","17":"product-type-simple"},"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/munster-records.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/product\/116959","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/munster-records.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/product"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/munster-records.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/product"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/munster-records.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/116930"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/munster-records.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=116959"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"product_brand","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/munster-records.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/product_brand?post=116959"},{"taxonomy":"product_cat","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/munster-records.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/product_cat?post=116959"},{"taxonomy":"product_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/munster-records.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/product_tag?post=116959"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}