LIMITED EDITION (300 COPIES) A SIDE -A1 Monica Rocha & Malik Malo - Hello Stranger A SIDE -A2 Monica Rocha - The One Who Really Loves You B SIDE - Monica Rocha - Tonight Is The Night Label - Last Bastion (2023) Catalogue # LB05 Format - 7" Vinyl Condition - New - ​Release Information -​For LB05, debuting on vinyl and this three track EP, we have the Chicano Soul /Brown eyed Soul/low-rider sound of Monica Rocha plus her fabulous duet with Malik Malo! Limited to 300 with picture sleeve - there will be no repress. ** see full description for more info on this release and to Listen MONICA ROCHA The Chicano EP - New Lowrider Latin Soul 45 (Last Bastion) *Listen MONICA ROCHA The Chicano EP - New Lowrider Latin Soul 45 (Last Bastion) *Listen Description

LIMITED EDITION (300 COPIES)
 

A SIDE -A1 Monica Rocha & Malik Malo - Hello Stranger
A SIDE -A2 Monica Rocha - The One Who Really Loves You

B SIDE - Monica Rocha - Tonight Is The Night

Label - Last Bastion (2023)

Catalogue # LB05

Format - 7" Vinyl

Condition - New

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Monica Rocha & Malik Malo – Hello Stranger

Monica Rocha – The One Who Really Loves You

Monica Rocha – Tonight Is The Night

Release Information
For LB05, debuting on vinyl and this three track EP, we have the Chicano Soul /Brown eyed Soul/low-rider sound of Monica Rocha plus her fabulous duet with Malik Malo!

Limited to 300 with picture sleeve - there will be no repress.


Originally pioneered by artists from San Antonio, Texas “Chicano Soul” (a fusion of Mexican-American and Black musical cultures) has always had an enthusiastic audience among Latino /Hispanic communities throughout the southwestern United States. These are slow jams from the moment when doo-wop morphed into soul. Mostly pleading and woebegone, they’re wrenching and transcendent in the way the best soul music always has been.

There’s now a new Californian movement of low-rider oldies music and resurgence in the Chicano Soul sound today with Monica and Malik.

The EP opens with ‘Hello stranger’ produced and arranged by Edward ‘E-Dub’ Rios. Monica dueting with Malik and delivering their trademark ‘Chicano’ magic on a track originally released by Barbara Lewis as a soul 45 in 1963. It was written by Barbara herself a few years earlier.

Continuing on the A side is ,‘The One Who Really Loves You’ again infused with that Chicano /low-rider style, E-Dub’s production with Monica’s vocals transforming this Smokey Robinson penned 1962 Mary Wells soul classic to stunning effect.

‘Tonight Is The Night’ on the flip has Monica with a sultry and evocative mid tempo recording reimagining Betty Wright’s 1974 sophisticated, smooth and polished studio production synonymous with that formative disco era. It’s stripped away and taken back a decade. Tantalising Lo-fi perfection with vocal intensity against a snare drum backbeat and in doing so, creating a soundtrack for evenings of low-rider music and gatherings of 50s vintage cars under the California sun. - Last Bastion 

 

 

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