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Colectivo Angélico Español
by E.J. Gold
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About This Release
Hot Salsa Samba Fusion Band performs the songs of E.J. Gold
The Hot Salsa Samba Fusion Band was born out of the borderlands between Havana and Rio — not literally, but in spirit. In the late 1990s, a handful of restless musicians from Cuba, Brazil, Puerto Rico, and Mexico began meeting up at street festivals and jam sessions, each carrying their own rhythmic traditions. What united them was the same question: why should salsa and samba live in separate worlds when they pulse with the same heartbeat?
The founding members were drummers first — congas, timbales, surdo, tamborim — and they laid down grooves that wove salsa’s claves into samba’s rolling swing. Soon, a fiery horn section joined in, blowing lines that moved like carnival parades colliding with New York salsa clubs at 2 a.m. Add to that a nylon-string guitarist raised on bolero, a pianist steeped in jazz montunos, and a bassist who’d cut his teeth in cumbia and Afrobeat, and the sound took on a life of its own.
They called themselves the Hot Salsa Samba Fusion Band not out of ego, but because no other name fit. Their rehearsals were wild experiments — flipping time signatures, jumping between merengue and bossa in the same tune, stretching the clave into 5/4 or 12/8 just to see if it could be done. What came out wasn’t academic or forced; it was sweaty, joyous, and impossible not to dance to.
The “why” of the band was always bigger than the music. For them, the fusion was a spiritual calling — to show that borders are illusions, that Latin rhythms from different lands are all part of the same ancestral drum. When they take the stage, they aren’t just performing; they’re channeling something older than any genre, a ladder of rhythm that goes up and down at once, carrying dancers into another dimension.
Today, the Hot Salsa Samba Fusion Band exists both in the flesh and in the ether. They’ve never been tied to one place or lineup. Sometimes it’s a 12-piece carnival explosion, sometimes a stripped-down street trio, but always that same driving pulse: salsa meeting samba, heaven meeting earth, angels dancing in ascending harmonies.
Release Notes:
- All songs ©2025 EJ Gold (BMI)
- Songs published by Union Label Music
- Produced by EJ Gold (BMI)
- Cover design by EJ Gold
- All Rights Reserved