Romero Bros -Samba de Flora Pts 1 & 2 (Echo Chamber) 7″

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