if you weren't tuned in earlier you missed francisco aguabella — "i wanna know" (1977).
aguabella was a matanzas-born batá master who cut sessions for tito puente, cal tjader, eddie palmieri, even santana. "hitting hard" was his own record — armando peraza on a second set of hands. latin-funk nobody clocked until ubiquity's cubop dug it back out in '99.
playing again later: as-if-radio.com
cover: hitting hard, cubop archive series reissue (orig. epsilon, 1977)


