East Harlem's godfather of Latin soul, Joe Bataan, is back with his first album in over 20 years! Recorded in New York City's Daptone Sound Studios, "Call My Name" fuses the unmistakable dusty groove of vintage funk and soul with contemporary production style and bombast. ESL Music proudly presents this digital only release featuring instant classics alongside dancefloor remixes from a bevy of current breakbeat-funk heavyweights. The smooth soul of title track "Call My Name" is reworked into a high-octane percussion session by The Voodoo Trombone Quartet, while the anthemic "Chick-a-Boom" undergoes a gymnastic electro-breakbeat makeover by Chris Joss, and Ursula 1000 adds even more spice to the hot barrio rhythms of "Chevere Que Chevere."

Call My Name was arranged and produced by Daniel Collás. All songs written by Daniel Collás, except Cycles of You (Rafalowich-Collás-O´Malley)

 

"What Collas and Bataan have come up with for Call My Name echoes vintage recordings but takes them out into open water..The album transports listeners to a bygone New York with richly textured, organic playing" ---POPMATTERS

 

"Bataan brought back the spirit of 1970s East Harlem with this truly sizzling album that had both fans and critics working their hips" ---EXCLAIM

"Although these songs signify a grand reentrance, to call the album a resurrection would be inaccurate. Bataan sounds as if he never left, and he appears poised to subsist through clave backbeats, conga rhythms and organ grooves eternally." ---FADER

 

"With its dusty, rare groove style that sounds as if it were just pulled from some 30-year old vault, Joe Bataan's "Call My Name" takes ESL Music in a surprising yet natural new direction." ---PROPERLY CHILLED