The Power Of Love [Vinyl]

Now-Again Records presents catalog-wide reissues of Latin music propellant Joe Bataan’s legendary Ghetto Records.

Next up in the series - Puerto Rico-born pianist Joe Acosta had a long, if unsung
career in Latin music, but his Ghetto Records LP is his best and most sought-after
album. It’s easy to see why - deep trombones, fantastic piano solos, great Salsa
alongside a couple of Latin Soul gems make for a heady mix that embodies the
Salsoul - Salsa meets Soul - movement kickstarted by Joe Bataan.

Ghetto Records was Joe Bataan’s 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 I’ve done. I learned enough that it enabled me to get out of the box with mythinking, 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 hope Ghetto Records 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 16 page oversize book by Pablo Yglesias that details Bataan’s larger-than-imagination life and his little Latin label that could.