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  |  R E L E A S E   D E T A I L S  >>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>  |
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  |  The_TNT_Band-The_Meditation-WEB-1968-SOUNDz                            |
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  |  Artist______________  The TNT Band                                     |
  |  Title_______________  The Meditation                                   |
  |  Label_______________  Cotique / Craft Recordings                       |
  |  Genre_______________  Latin                                            |
  |  Year________________  1968                                             |
  |  Release Date________  2019-07-24                                       |
  |  Street Date_________  1968-01-01                                       |
  |  Source______________  WEB                                              |
  |  Encoder_____________  MP3 / Lavf                                       |
  |  Quality_____________  CBR 320kbps 44.1kHz                              |
  |  Size________________  80.4MiB                                          |
  |  Playtime____________  0:34:49                                          |
  |  URL_________________  https://play.google.com/store/music/album/       |
  |                        ?id=Bpzevit46bq4boqjpt6i22qlzoq                  |
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  |  01. The Meditation                                              03:55  |
  |  02. Mr. Slick                                                   03:09  |
  |  03. Cool Clave (Suave Clave)                                    04:18  |
  |  04. I Miss You (Te Hecho De Menos)                              02:51  |
  |  05. Very Bad Times                                              03:08  |
  |  06. Sudden Emotion                                              02:40  |
  |  07. Cupid                                                       05:18  |
  |  08. Georgia                                                     03:39  |
  |  09. Keep On Smiling (Sigue Sonriendo)                           02:42  |
  |  10. At Last                                                     03:08  |
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  |  R E L E A S E   N O T E S  >>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>  |
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  |  1969's The Meditation is pure New York boogaloo to the bone, for good  |
  |  or ill. All the silky late-'60s pop vocals, punchy harmonized backup   |
  |  lines, and straight-ahead Latin grooves associated with the word are   |
  |  there in spades. Though many other groups flirted with boogaloo, or    |
  |  entertained it briefly as a guest, the TnT Band made it their home,    |
  |  their signature sound.                                                 |
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  |  Unfortunately, when one sets out to merge two otherwise unrelated      |
  |  styles, they run the risk of doing neither of them well. Such is the   |
  |  case on many of the tracks from The Meditation. The straight-ahead     |
  |  Latino descarga track "Cool Slave," an instrumental jam, pushes and    |
  |  pulls until it finally rends itself to shreds. The vocals on "Mr.      |
  |  Slick" and "At Last" seem meandering, directionless, and pitchy.       |
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  |  When one reads the nonsensical, drug-influenced liner notes, written   |
  |  by the record's producer, George Goldner, one wonders if the project   |
  |  suffered from a lack of intelligent and mature leadership. For         |
  |  whatever reason, neither boogaloo nor the TnT Band had an              |
  |  exceptionally long life span, the latter only recording three albums   |
  |  over a two-year period, The Meditation being their last. Few other     |
  |  bands can claim the short-lived genre as home base. The TnT Band went  |
  |  so far as to bind their fates together.                                |
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  |        YOU KNOW YOU HAVE TO BUY THIS SHIT IF YOU LIKE IT RIGHT?!        |
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