Various Artists - Some Skin: A Modern Harmonic Bongo & Percussion Party

 

Clear yellow vinyl LP

Includes liner notes from the late great Brother Cleve!

Mastered by Kevin Gray and pressed at Citizen Vinyl!

A bongo comp with unissued selections by Jill Kroesen, Tak Shindo, and Sun Ra!

Bongo Bongo Bongo!

The mere uttering of the word conjures up dreams and images of parties, beaches, tropical vacations, beatniks and poets, goatees and cha-cha heels, drinking espresso in coffee shops, and of the freedom of the road while getting your kicks on Route 66.

Fuzzy dice, bongos in the back. Bongo Rock! Bongo Fury! Bongo Madness! Beat on a pair of bongos and watch the party begin!

Some Skin is designed to get that party started. Just throw the platter on the Hi-Fi and let it spin. Modern Harmonic has put together a group of rare selections, the majority of which are previously unreleased and come from quite possibly the most diverse group of individuals to ever metaphorically step foot onto a bongo comp. Dig?

We just hope the players on these recordings had some skin left on their palms after their beat bashing cooled down. And that you're not all tuckered out from those frug and boogaloo workouts. If not, just press play and start it all over again. Pretty soon the ghost of Maynard G. Krebs may appear in a bongo fever dream on your dance floor. Or at your Beach Blanket Bongo party.

"Do all 16 dances! Just keep on dancin' and a-prancin!'" — Brother Cleve (mixologist, Sunraologist, keyboardist for Combustible Edison)

 

 

Inspector Bongo - Jack Costanzo

Wild Percussion - Tak Shindo

Singing Bongos - Rene Hall

Where's Tim Schellenbaum's Violin - Jill Kroesen

Cinco Sin Titulo (feat. Manfredo Fest) - Herb Schoenbohm's Quintet

Escuadron De Policia - Jack Costanzo

Why Don't You Go To Hell! (Quero Que Ya Tudo Pro Inferno)

Cigarillo - Jack Costanzo

Bongo Birthday Surprise - Nicholas Carras

Trinidad Blues - Rene Hall

Where's Tim's Guitar - Jill Kroesen

Boyle Heights - Jack Costanzo

The Idea of The Greater Age - Sun Ra & His Arkestra

My Sadness (feat. Manfredo Fest) - Herb Schoenbohm's Quintet

Jungle Duck - Nicholas Carras

Sunny (feat. Manfredo Fest) - Herb Schoenbohm's Quintet

Bongo Aftermath - Nicholas Carras

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