Echo Chamber recs. Romero Bros - Samba de Flora Pts 1 & 2- 7" Single - Last 1

We are flying headlong into the second year of Echo Chamber Recordings with this brilliant version of the jazz-dance club anthem  : Airto’s “Samba de Flora” - revisited by the Romero Bros - which is in process to be pressed as  a “rush release “ 45 to get this out into the world as soon as possible …

Following a tip-off from a South American customer of previous ECR 45 releases - I hooked up with the band who are based in Rosario, Santa Fe in the North of Argentina.   
What I hadn’t realised was that the vocals on the original version are actually sung in Spanish (I’d always presumed it was Portuguese due to Airto’s Brazilian background).
This was a big reason for it becoming a popular tune in certain clubs in Argentina over the last few decades - hence the band performing this many times before even recording it.

The music originally arrived at ECR HQ in early August - in the form of two one-sided 10” dubplates with the full version clocking in at 6.45 mins.   These are now in the exclusive possession of the two jazz DJ legends : Colin Curtis and of course, the man who championed the original version in Dingwalls over thirty years ago - Gilles Peterson

With the bands’s permission I have duly split the original version into parts one and two in order to put out on a 45 -  this includes an “overlap” so DJs can easily recreate the “full version” with two copies !