Enjoy the Miles/Gil version.
The Ray & Cleo version came into KNTU
and nobody else would touch it,
so I took it home - still have it -
but need to listen again after a few decades.
Would never be able to sit thru a theatrical version
(or movie either).
Actually, I’m fond of this version.
It definitely unhallows the original.
It's funny. I don't even remember that French cover.
I could've been in Hegewisch or Rose Records and
saw it, noticed that I already had it, and put it back.
Original pressings probably didn't even cross my
mind back then. It was always the music. Still is.
Ahh, OK, that was the French release.
Yeah, the Prestige one is the one that I remember.
Probably easier to get then(?) - but, still, a great record and "experience."
I still like the original 10064 cover.
This album had such an enormous impact on me in so many ways.
Not only did I start adding more cymbals and "little instruments" to my percussion setup,
but the following year I begged to be taken to see them in Ann Arbor.
It seemed to continue for quite a few years afterwards too.
They were distributed thru Polydor, so that really got the LPs into stores -
even tho the reps didn't know who any of these artists were.
I remember some women running back to record stores with copies of Song X
in hand screaming something like "What happened to Pat Metheny???!!!"
There was even a decent turnout to many of those 50th anniversary concerts
at Big Ears back in 2019.
from February 5, 2019...
Random Radio 026: Afro-Colombian Eclipse (Champeta)
Son Palenque & Michi Sarmiento - Pacuapa
Son Palenque - El Tigre
Son Palenque - Adios Batata (Remix – Pyrotechnica)
Batata Y Su Rumba Palenquera - Ataole (Remix – Atropolis)
Messie Boogaloo - El Manicomio
Anne Swing & Viviano Torres - Mini Ku Suto
El Sexteto Tabalá - Esto Es Candela (Remix – Beat Laden)
Kussima - Despeluque En Palenque (Remix)
El Sexteto Tabalá - Esto Es Candela
The King Elio Boom - El Fulo
Cándido Pérez "El Doctor De La Terapia" - Simón Templao
Abelardo Carbono - Cumbia Sampuesana (DJ Panko Remix)
Oscar William - La Despelucada
Messie Boogaloo - La Pega Josa
Magic System - 1er Gaou (Remix: Champeta Man & Sergent Garcia)
Rafael Chavez - El Pirata
Estrellas Del Caribe - Sambingó
Tubara - Tu Alma
Redil Cuarteto - Remolino En El Estero
Boom Full Meke - R.P.M.P
El Conde Sound System - More Champeta Sound System ! !
Faraon Bantu Sound System - Placa Champetua
Alfonso Cordoba El Brujo - El Piloto
Quantic - Nacido en Palenque
Los Gaiteros de San Jacinto - Maria Solá (Dub Mix)
Orquesta Mendoza - Misterio
Rompefuego - El Culebrero
Batata Y Su Rumba Palenquera - Macaco Mata El Toro (Remix – So Shifty)
Cerrero - Pedacito de Esperanza
Ciquito Valdez - El Ron Tornillo
Batata Y Su Rumba Palenquera - Ataole (Remix: Rigo Star)
Colombiafrica & The Mystic Orchestra - Mama Africa
Sexteto Tabalá - Cortaron a Helena
Oriki Tabalá - Manu Bruno
Louis Towers & Colombiafrica Orchestra - Mama Africa (DJ Panko Remix)
Colombiafrica Orchestra - El Liso En Olaya
Batata Y Su Rumba Palenquera - Macaco Mata El Toro (Remix: Reaganomics)
Batata Y Su Rumba Palenquera - Macaco Mata El Toro (Remix: Nova Lima)
Colombiafrica & The Mystic Orchestra - No Habla Na
Systema Solar - Mi Caribe
Colombiafrica - ¿Quién manda a quién?
Clavo Y Martillo - Batata Y Su Rumba Palenquera- Balkan Version (DJ Panko Remix)
Batata Y Su Rumba Palenquera - Macaco Africano (DJ Panko Remix)
Dj Pulpo - El Vacilon Del Faraón
Colombiafrica La Orquesta Mistica - Zarandia Ku Suto - Alternative Mix (Feat Bopol Mansiamina)
Milton Mendoza - El Caramelo (Techno Pop)
Colombiafrica La Orquesta Mistica & Anne Swing - Zarandea Champeta (Feat Dally Kimoko & Hadya Koyaute)
Faraon Bantu Sound System - Placa Champetua
Perlas Del Pacifico - Pango
El Patakoré - Gualajo (DJ Panko Remix)
Cándido Pérez "El Doctor De La Terapia" - La Pea Coco
Tradicional - Cantos de Trabajo
Yes, very familiar with her work.
You should read "All in the Downs" which came out a few years ago.
She was on the cover of The Wire not too long ago as well.
Roy Carroll - electroacoustic media
Werner Dafeldecker - doublebass
Paroxysm
Jean-Jacques Birgé – keyboards, synthesizers, etc.
François Corneloup – baritone sax
Philippe Deschepper – guitar