Spellbound Sampler: ¡Assorted Spanglish Favorites!

Latin Beat Magazine, June-July, 2004 by Rudy Mangual

SPELLBOUND SAMPLER ¡Assorted Spanglish Favorites! (Selfish Recordings)

With four recordings under its belt, the LA-based Tropical funk band Spellbound has issued a new CD, The Spellbound Sampler: Assorted Spanglish Favorites, in commemoration of the recent proliferation of Spanglish musical acts worldwide. Led by multi-instrumentalist Paul Thomas and vocalist Bobby Moon, the Spellbound saga came into existence in 1996 with a self-titled CO, which generated the West Coast hit song Good Company for the band. This new sampler embraces the music and sounds of the band from their earliest recognized works through their most recent production Tropicalifornia, released in 2003. A collection of all of their best-known grooves, the CD also contains the track Fiesta Privada (previously only available on mp3) and a special live version of the Tito Puente classic composition Oye Como W, Newcomers to Spellbound will appreciate the eight year retrospective of the band in one disc and faithful fans will enjoy the collection of favorite tracks. The CD is specially priced on the Spellbound's own long-running Selfish Recordings label. (RM)