Joe Bataan Call My Name Vampisoul

NEW LP

LP VAMPI 168
 

Joe Bataan ‎– Call My Name
Label:
Vampi Soul ‎– VAMPI 168
Format:
Vinyl, LP, Album
Country:
Spain
Released:
2016
Genre:
Latin, Funk / Soul
Style:
Funk
Tracklist
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A1     Call My Name

    Written-By – Daniel Collás

    4:40
A2     Chick-a-Boom

    Written-By – Daniel Collás

    3:45
A3     I'm The Fool (Parts 1&2)

    Written-By – Daniel Collás

    9:54
A4     Cycles Of You

    Written-By – Collás*, OMalley*, Rafalowich*

    4:28
B1     Secret Girl, My Superfraud

    Written-By – Daniel Collás

    3:01
B2     Ernestine

    Written-By – Daniel Collás

    5:11
B3     Chevere Que Chevere

    Written-By – Daniel Collás

    4:17
B4     Keep The Change

    Written-By – Daniel Collás

    3:19

Companies, etc.

    Recorded At – Daptone Studios
    Mixed At – Daptone Studios
    Manufactured By – www.gzvinyl.com
    Pressed By – GZ Digital Media – 59802E
    Phonographic Copyright (p) – Vampi Soul
    Copyright (c) – Vampi Soul
    Manufactured By – Distrolux SL
    Published By – Música De Miedo
    Published By – Warner/Chappell

Credits

    Arranged By, Mixed By, Vibraphone, Clavinet, Electric Piano, Organ, Synthesizer [Arp], Congas, Bongos, Guiro, Cowbell, Design [Cover] – Daniel Collás
    Artwork [Cover Art] – Rafael Farolan
    Backing Vocals – The Middle Initials
    Backing Vocals [Additional] – Daniel Chavis, Del Sribling*, Fairchild (3) (tracks: A2, B4), The 5th Avenue Gang (tracks: B3)
    Bass – Luke OMalley* (tracks: A2, A4), Steve Lay
    Bongos, Guiro, Cowbell – Heriberto "Eddy" Rodriguez
    Congas – Tito Rivera
    Congas, Timbales – Victor Rendon
    Design [Cover] – Skye Nicolas
    Drums – Douglas Hodges (tracks: A2, A4), Jonathan Nigro
    Flute – Neal Sugarman, Sonny "Boy" Arroyo
    Guitar, Sitar – Michael Rafalowich
    Lead Vocals – Joe Bataan
    Liner Notes [Enlance Funk] – Mr. Sutil
    Other [Thanks For Contribution] – Luke O'Malley (tracks: A3), Steve Lay (tracks: A3)
    Photography By – David Stahl (2)
    Producer – Daniel Collás
    Recorded By [Backing Vocals] – Joel Hamburger, Sean Marquand
    Recorded By, Mixed By – Gabriel Roth
    Tambourine – Bosco Mann
    Trombone – Aaron "AJ" Johnson*, Hector Ramirez
    Vibraphone, Soloist – Tommy Mattiolo (tracks: A2, A4)

Notes
Brown Cover + Insert
Barcode and Other Identifiers

    Rights Society: SGAE
    Matrix / Runout: Matrix / Runout (Runout A - stamped): 144441E1/A
    Matrix / Runout: Matrix / Runout (Runout B - stamped): 144441E2/A


This whole project grew out of a song called ‘Cycles Of You’, which I had written around 2000-2001 with the guitarist and bassist of my band at the time, Easy. The chord progression and vocal melody really reminded me of Bataan, and it occurred to me that it wouldn’t be impossible to get him into the studio to do a guest vocal if we ever recorded it. I had met Bataan a few years before at a small, family-reunion style show at the Nuyorican Poets Cafe in my neighborhood, where he not only still sounded great, but was also gracious and easy to talk to.

By the time we got around to recording with Easy, the band was about to break up but we still had the studio booked. We all agreed that we didn’t want to continue as a band, but at the same time, it would be a shame to never record what we had been working on. Around this time Bataan was playing out again, so I went to the show to see him and find out if he’d be interested in doing some vocals with us. He was agreeable, so we decided to turn it into a Joe Bataan session and do ‘Cycles Of You’. The funny thing is, ‘Chick-A-Boom’, a live favorite with Easy, was hastily added so we could have a B-side, but it ended up chosen to be the A-side of the single.

When I got the opportunity from Vampisoul to do a full album, I was hoping Bataan and I could write some songs together, but our schedules proved tough to coordinate. I figured the best way to go about it was to do most of the work and just have him come sing on it. I thought this might be a little weird for him, since he is used to writing and producing most of his own records, but he was open to it.

The rhythm section was a band called TransLove Airways that I formed in 2002. We got really tight and developed a great sound that was, to me, equal parts Heart, Shocking Blue, Brian Auger and Rare Earth. If you listen closely, you can hear Bataan say our name in the beginning of ‘Keep The Change’. To this core group I added pieces from a few other local bands: The Middle Initials, who are a great Temptations/Main Ingredient-style vocal group, and members of an incredible Latin band called Grupo Latin Vibe, who were responsible for almost all the percussion and the vibraphone solo on ‘I’m The Fool Pt 2’. There was also some fine trombone playing by Aaron Johnson of Antibalas and great flute work by Neal Sugarman and my cousin Sonny. I consider myself very lucky to know and to have the opportunity to be able to work with these talented musicians.

Preparing for “Call My Name”, I listened to a lot of different records from the mid to late 70s and thought about how they were actually getting those sounds and how Bataan’s vocal style would fit with them. It has now been over ten years since the completion of this record, and so much has changed. The “Call My Name” sessions took place when Daptone had just moved to Bushwick, its now-famous current location. Gabe Roth and I had been acquaintances for a few years at that point, and since I didn’t have a studio of my own, he was my first call whenever I had any recording to do. He was yet to become the legendary figure at the center of the Daptone/Truth & Soul universe, and the recordings he would do with Amy Winehouse were still a few years away. At the time he was just a humble guy with an incredible talent and an impeccable ear who made authentic sounding records with inexpensive – not necessarily vintage – analog gear.

The reactions to this album were gratifying. Diehard fans accepted it as a welcome addition to the canon and regularly compared it to some of my favorite records of Bataan’s. At one point a New York radio station’s listener poll listed two songs off of the album in the top ten of all-time best-loved Joe Bataan songs, and Ry Cooder enthusiastically mentioned “Call My Name” in a Wall Street Journal interview.

Daniel Collás, producer of “Call My Name”