Dedos

Here comes a true South American Latin JazzFunk treasure from Argentina!!!  Sound Essence is more than proud to present these lost recordings from 1974 to music lovers again in all their glory. 

Carlos Franzetti, who has once again been in the spotlight in recent years thanks to the re-release of his strong late 70s JazzFusion record "Graffiti", was also in charge of this record called Dedos. The story behind: 

In 1974, after Carlos Franzetti was living in Mexico and worked as the musical director of FERMATA International, he returned to Argentina. In Buenos Aires his friend Mochin Marafiotti was recently appointed A&R at the local recording label Music Hall . Marafiotti asked Carlos if he wanted to record some of his music and he answered  that he had in mind a group playing LATIN JAZZ . After a couple of meetings they came out with the idea of covering the Ruben Rada tune Dedos recently recorded in the US by Airto Moreira along with the Opa Trio. 

Carlos contributed his own composition „Doce y Diez“ . He selected the group consisting of his friend and member of the uruguayan Band Totem, Ruben Rada on percussion, Ricardo Lew on guitar , Emilio Valle on bass and Osvaldo Lopez on drums covering keyboards and vocals himself . This formation recorded tracks and vocals in a three hour session and the next day the track was mixed. Music Hall released „Dedos“ and „Doce y Diez“ on a single record and after months of discrete airplay and not so good sales the project for an album was draped . A few months after that Carlos moved back to the US where he is been living since December of 1974 to the present... 

It is a rewarding experience to see a re-release of this two songs a half century after the original release. It was hot and it looks and sounds even hotter now. I love it!" (Carlos Franzetti, New Jersey, December 2024).