This is a live recording from a garage party 8/30/14. Written by Jairo Zavala. Recorded onstage with a Zoom H4.

Don't Leave Me Now

Here's a quick sketch of a new tune. Just a first verse to chorus transition example. 

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Live from 08/05/16, Milonga's son/salsa version of Violeta Parra's "La Jardinera"

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Recent live version of La Cumbiambera. Diggin the switch to electric guitar instead of acoustic. The telecaster gives it a "South American Chicha-Meets Spaghetti Western" twang.

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Here's an idea how to funkify "Ay Candela".

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Found this little gem from a jam session in my living room years ago, with two fabulous guitarists, JP Shields on lead and Abe Kenney on rasgueo, myself on cajon.

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Rough scratch for new song about the Borinqueneers (65th Army regiment). Still needs a lot of arranging, horn parts, bass lines, piano and vocal arranging. But I think the idea is pretty much there.

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From a guinea pig session at Spokane Falls Community College's audio engineering program. My nephew PJ produced this for his degree.

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New song idea in the Cuban Timba groove...

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Here's the bones of a new song, Montunero.
It's just the verse-chorus, verse-chorus. Haven't written any horns, breakdowns or a bridge yet but I like so far.

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