Nilo Espinosa - Shaken, Not Stirred (2007)

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Nilo Espinosa - Shaken, Not Stirred (2007)

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A comprehensive anthology including all of the different music projects of outstanding Peruvian flute and saxophone player Nilo Espinosa. On this compilation, you can find most of his best and grooviest tracks from the 60s and 70s, playing with the Nil’s Jazz Ensemble, Bossa 70, Los Hilton’s, Nilo Espinosa & Los 007, or Nilo Espinosa y Su Orquesta. A total feast of tropical music, bossa nova, boogaloo, Latin soul, jazz, funk, rumba, lounge, and even disco!
Tracing the sonorous tracks of musicians and record industries in rarely visited music-minded countries never ceases to be gratifying. It’s a complicated task due to the lack of details and information, but also terribly appealing on account of the surprises one finds when trying. One such surprise is the work of the exquisite and utterly contemporary flautist and saxophonist, Nilo Espinosa. Beyond esthetic alibis, and several years past the commercial boom of an elegant kind of Lounge music, Espinosa’s recordings persevere for three reasons: attitude, quality and freshness. If, for him, the sixties were learning years, the seventies allowed him to develop his talent and consolidate his preference for upward moving rhythms with a lot of groove.