Emusica & Barrio Zone Productions Take Pride in Announcing the Debut CD Of Aurora Y Zon Del Barrio

Emusica & Barrio Zone Productions Take Pride in Announcing the Debut CD Of Aurora Y Zon Del Barrio

Music from the Barrio Zones

Cortijo's Tribe: La Tribu de Cortijo

With special guests Sammy Ayala & Yomo Toro

Introducing New York's youngest sonero: Hector "PAPOTE" Jimenez

CD Release Celebration Wednesday, October 24th @ New York's legendary LQ's

NEW YORK, Oct. 4 /PRNewswire/ -- From the first salsa strains of "El Chivo" to the last bomba beats of "Yubaybye," Cortijo's Tribe takes a new turn on dance music creating a party platform built on an Afro-Antillian movement that defined a nation during the 50s and continues to swing into the new century.

Emusica Records and Barrio Zone Productions are proud to present the debut CD of Spanish Harlem's own Zon Del Barrio, a band structured on a solid foundation of Afro-Caribbean roots and rhythms with a New York twist, introducing an innovative and young improvisational singer, Hector "Papote" Jimenez.

A CD release party will be held on Wednesday, October 24th at LQ New York located at 511 Lexington Avenue and 48th Street. Doors open at 6:00 pm with a free buffet until 7:00 pm. Free Dance lessons at 8:00 pm and live music at 9:00 pm. For table reservations, please call 212/593-7575. Cortijo's Tribe: La Tribu de Cortijo will be in stores beginning October 23, 2007. The CD will also be available on-line prior to street date at www.zondelbarrio.com.

Led by Latin music historian, writer, composer and musician Aurora Flores, Zon del Barrio's Cortijo's Tribe: La Tribu de Cortijo features two masters of Afro-Puerto Rican music, Yomo Toro, the King of the cuatro (the national 10- stringed guitar of the island) and Cortijo alum, singer/songwriter Sammy Ayala. Teamed alongside New York's youngest "sonero," Hector "Papote" Jimenez, Aurora & Zon del Barrio is "throwing the gauntlet" as Rene Lopez, music historian and producer, describes in their liner notes "declaring this to be the popular music of Puerto Rican New Yorkers and Latinos everywhere."

Produced by musical director David Fernandez, this recording blends the dance rhythms of Cuba and Puerto Rico within a New York setting. Adding elements of jazz, R&B, hip-hop, funk and reggaeton, interspersed with interludes of raw street plenas and bombas, Cortijo's Tribe follows the production style of salsa pioneer Al Santiago whose audacious approach paved the way for the Fania music explosion of the '70s.

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Source: Emusica

CONTACT: Nina Olson, +1-212-876-1936, +1-917-710-6404

Web site: http://www.zondelbarrio.com/

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