From Ear To Ear (LP)

The Story Of Ghetto Records LP 4 of 7. This brash, big band Latin orchestra from Brooklyn debuted on Ghetto Records with an underground Salsa album which also contains beguiling, English-language Psychedelic Soul of Latin Blues. Ghetto Records was Latin music legend Joe Bataans 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 Ive 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 hopeGhettoRecords came crashing down shortly after its inception. The seven albums in its discography languished out of print – until now. 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 Bataans larger-than-imagination life and his little Latin label that could.

Tracklist:

1.Borinquen
2.Con Quien Andas
3.Latin Blues
4.Ya No Te Quiero
5.Negrita Mia
6.Telegrama
7.M & M
8.Sassie