Romero Bros 

“Samba de Flora”

Label: Echo Chamber Recordings
Catalogue Number: ECRXX001
Release Date: September 2024
Format: 7’ Vinyl 45rpm

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 ! 

Test presses have just arrived already- and I’m expecting the vinyl stock in September and so hope to open pre-orders direct and on BandCamp – before the end of August – as soon as I’m certain of the ETA of the 45s landing here.  Likewise being stocked at usual retailers around the world such as Juno in U.K. / Bumrush in USA / Dr Diggns in Australia and hopefully in Japan too.

NB: To keep exclusivity of the full length version, only “part one” will initially be made available in the digital format. 

** Lookout for the next instalments in the ECR story with the new “Reggae Series” on ECR008 and the second “Echo Edits” release coming next.**

All the best!
Simon Fane -aka- Si Cheeba
Echo Chamber Recordings