Willie Colon - Wanted By FBI / The Big Break - La Gran Fuga flac album

The Big Break is a masterpiece of Latin music, the kind of formidable artistic statement that established the Fania label as a cultural icon- going beyond the parameters of a company specializing in crowd pleasing dance music. Needless to say, this is still a great party album, filled with dance friendly classics such as Barrunto and Abuelita. This time, Sanabria flew with the idea and devised a cover that replicated a Wanted by the FBI poster. Using the project's limited budget to his advantage, the designer included a cheap photo of Colón and random fingerprints to create a realistic looking poster. After its release, the company was contacted by the real FBI, which requested that the ‘Wanted by FBI’ text be removed from the cover.

Artist: Willie Colón Genre: World Release Date: 04/21/2018 Label: Get On Down Catalog Number: 59001 Recording: Studio Length: Format: Vinyl LP Note: White Vinyl Limit One Per Customer. Cosa Nuestra (LP) Willie Colón. Siembra (CD) Willie Colón. Siembra (LP) Willie Colón. Metiendo Mano! (CD) Willie Colón.

Wanted By FBI, The Big Break – La Gran Fuga by Willie Colón. Willie Colon & Associates (49 Minutes) by Willie Colón. View all albums . Only They Could Have Made This Album. By: Willie Colón (1977, Latin).

There are subtle nods towards American funk and soul throughout, as well as a fine mixture of both dancefloor heaters, torch songs and more laidback moments.

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Of the many brilliant LP covers that graphic designer Izzy Sanabria designed for Fania, The Big Break may be the most notorious one. Read full description. See details and exclusions. Willie Colon Wanted by FBI The Big Break - La Gran Fuga Vinyl (2018). Brand new: lowest price.

Record Store Day 2018 has something for everyone, including a special reissuing of Willie Colón's landmark Wanted by the FBI: The Big Break - La Gran Fuga, an LP that helped crystalize the cultural iconicity of Fania Records. The album includes classics such as Barrunto and Abuelita, and remains a shining emblem of the famed Colón/Hector Lavoé musical aesthetic the two spent years developing. Following its release, Fania was contacted by the actual FBI, which demanded they be removed from said cover.

Willie Colón is often called the OG (Original Gangsta) because of his tongue in cheek album covers. Beyond the trombone, he has also worked as a composer, arranger, and singer, and eventually as a producer and director. Combining elements of jazz, rock, and salsa, his work incorporates the rhythms of traditional music from Cuba, Puerto Rico, Brazil, and the other ancestral homeland, Africa, representing the mostly a one-way flow from Puerto Rico to the New York-based diaspora In 1994, in his first political run, Colón challenged Re.